Aliguay, John Rhey BPA I-C GROUP 1 1. Department of Interior and Local Government is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for promoting peace and order and ensuring policy safety. Functions: • Assist the President in the exercise of general supervision over local governments. • Advise the President in the promulgation of policies, rules, regulations and other issuances on the general supervision over local governments and on public order and safety. 2. Department of Justice is the central authority of the Republic of the Philippines relative to extradition and mutual legal assistance treaties (MLAT) on criminal matters and is involved in several aspects of international cooperation such as the drafting and implementation of legislation and agreements. It is the government's principal law agency, serving as its legal counsel and prosecution arm. Functions: • Upholding the rule of law in the Philippines. • They ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic. • Also seek just punishment for those who commit crimes. • Lastly, to provide fair and impartial justice. 3. Department of Labor and Employment is one of the executive departments of the Philippine government mandated to formulate policies, implement programs and services, and serve as the policy-coordinating arm of the Executive Branch in the field of labor and employment. It is tasked with the enforcement of the provisions of the Labor Code. Functions: • Enforce social and labor legislation to protect the working class and regulate the relations between the worker and his employees. • Recommend necessary adjustments in wage structures with the view to developing wage system that is consistent with national economic and social development plans. • Uphold the right of workers and employers to organize and promote free collaborative bargaining as the foundations of the labor relations system. 4. Department of National Defense is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for guarding against external and internal threats to peace and security in the country. Functions: • Safeguard the country against external and internal threads to national peace and security. • Is tasked to guard the country against external and internal threats to national peace and security, and to provide support for social and economic development. 5. Department of Public Works and Highways implements the policy of the State to continuously develop technology for ensuring the safety of all infrastructure facilities and securing for all public works and highways the highest efficiency and the most appropriate quality of construction. Functions: • Is responsible for the planning, design, construction and maintenance of infrastructure, especially the national highways, flood control and water resources development system, and other public works in accordance with national development objectives. • Ensures the safety of all infrastructure facilities and securing for all public works and highways. 6. Department of Science and Technology responsible for the coordination of science and technology-related projects in the Philippines and to formulate policies and projects in the fields of science and technology in support of national development. Functions: • Pursue the declared state policy of supporting local scientific and technological effort. • Develop local capability to achieve technological self-reliance. • Encourage greater private sector participation in research and development. • Providing central direction, leadership and coordination of all scientific and technological activities, and of formulating policies, programs and projects to support national. 7. Department of Social Welfare and Development responsible for the protection of the social welfare of rights of Filipinos and to promote social development. Functions: • To develop, administer, and implement comprehensive social welfare programs. • To uplift the living conditions and empower the disadvantaged children, youth, women, older persons, person with disabilities, families in crisis or at-risk. 8. Department of Tourism responsible for the regulation of the Philippine tourism industry and the promotion of the Philippines as a tourist destination. Functions: • To develop and promote the Philippine tourism industry, both domestically and internationally. • Mandated to encourage, promote, and develop tourism as a major socioeconomic activity to generate foreign currency and local employment and to spread the benefits of tourism to a wider segment of the population with the support, assistance, and cooperation of both the private and public sectors. 9. Department of Trade and Industry it is a prime mover of consumer welfare. Tasked as the main economic catalyst that enables innovative, competitive, job generating, inclusive business, and empowers consumers. Functions: • Act as a catalyst for intensified private sector activity in order to accelerate and sustain economic growth through comprehensive industrial growth strategy. • Progressive and socially responsible trade liberalization and deregulation programs and policymaking designed for the expansion and diversification of Philippine trade – both domestic and foreign. • Protecting the rights and interests of the consumers and fostering a competitive and innovative industry. 10. Department of Transportation and Communications oversees the maintenance and expansion of viable, efficient, and dependable transportation systems as effective instruments for national recovery and economic progress. It is responsible for the country's land, air, and sea communications infrastructure. It’s main purpose is to responsible for the development and regulation of transportation and communications systems. Functions: • For the development and regulation of transportation and communications system. • Develops, promotes, implements, and maintains integrated and strategic transportation and communications systems that will ensure safe, reliable, responsive, and viable services to accelerate economic development and to better serve the transport. References: • The Official Gazette of The Philippines- Executive Branch https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/about/gov/exec/ • The Government PH https://www.gov.ph/about-the-government.html • The Philippine Government https://www.philembassy.no/the-philippine-government • • • • Dolan, Ronald E. (Ed.). (1991). Philippines: A country study. Washington, D.C.: GPO for the Library of Congress Philippines: A country Study http://countrystudies.us/philippines/ Republic of the Philippines, Department of the Interior and Local Government. (1991). Local government code of 1991, Book III, Local government units. The 1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines – Article X. (1987). Article X. Retrieved from http://www.gov.ph/constitutions/the-1987-constitutionof-the-republic-ofthe-philippines/the-1987-constitution-of-the-republic-of-thephilippines-article-x/
