WHEREAS, the basic sectors, NGOs, labor and business sector representatives to the Social Reform Council (SRC) have established a Basic Sector Counterpart Council (BSCC) to ensure the autonomy and integrity of their participation in the Social Reform Agenda (SRA);

WHEREAS, the sectoral representatives formulated and adopted the BSCC Organizational Mechanisms and Guidelines which define the parameters for the participation of the basic sectors in the SRA to ensure principled partnership with government;

WHEREAS, government recognizes that the basic sectors, labor, non-government and other organizations in the civil society are important partners in governance who have their own decision-making processes and are capable of resolving conflicts among themselves;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order the adoption of this Implementing Guidelines to ensure the broadest and meaningful participation of the Basic Sectors in the enhanced Social Reform Agenda, as the National Integrated Action Agenda on Anti-Poverty.

SECTION 1. All Cabinet Officers for Regional Development (CORDs), Heads of Flagship Agencies, GOCCs, Regional Development Councils and Local Government Units are hereby directed to support the effective implementation of this guidelines to ensure the broadest and meaningful participation of the Basic Sectors in the Social Reform Agenda (SRA).

SEC. 2. All SRA Technical Working Groups shall recognize and closely coordinate with the designated sectoral representatives and organizations from the national, regional and local levels in the implementation of the SRA.

SEC. 3. The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) shall issue supplementary guidelines in consultation with the Basic Sector Counterpart Council representatives, to their respective regional and local constituencies with PO/NGO mechanisms, to ensure the smooth interface of SRA ™s Basic Sectors Counterpart Structures at all levels.

SEC. 4. All Sectoral Representatives to the Social Reform Council are hereby directed to hasten the process of localizing this Implementing Guidelines and interface with existing PO/NGO mechanisms in government at all levels.

SEC. 5. The SRC Secretariat shall closely coordinate with the Basic Sectors Counterpart Council and Secretariat in the effective implementation of this guidelines.

SEC. 6. The Basic Sector Counterpart Council shall undertake periodic review of the Implementing Guidelines, and may propose amendments which shall be approved by the SRA Lead Convenor.

SEC. 7. This Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 26th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred Ninety-Six.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:
(Sgd.) RUBEN D. TORRES
Executive Secretary