Marcos: Streamline government’s performance evaluation systems

FILE PHOTO: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. delivers his speech at Villamor Airbase in Pasay City on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, before flying to Brunei Darussalam for an official visit. INQUIRER.net/Ryan Leagogo

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered the streamlining of the government’s Results-Based Performance Management System (RBPMS) and Performance-Based Incentive System (PBIS).

The Presidential Communications Office (PCO) said in a statement Saturday that Marcos issued on June 3, 2024, Executive Order (EO) No. 61, which suspended Administrative Order No. 25-2011 and Executive Order No. 80-2012.

AO No. 25 established a unified and integrated RBPMS across all departments and agencies within the Executive branch of government while EO No. 80, as amended by EO No. 201-2016), adopted a PBIS that comprises Productivity Enhancement Incentive (PEI) and Performance-Based Bonus (PBB) to motivate higher performance and exact greater accountability in the public sector and ensure accomplishment of government commitments and targets.

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According to the PCO, the RBPMS and PBIS “have been duplicative and redundant with the internal and external performance audit and evaluation systems of the government.”

They “lacked a review mechanism leading to the accumulation of rules, regulations, and issuances from the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on the Harmonization of National Government Performance Monitoring, Information and Reporting Systems,” it added.

The PCO also noted that the prevailing RBPMS and PBIS “makes compliance burdensome, bureaucratic, laborious, and time consuming for government agencies.”

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EO No. 61 states: “It is imperative to streamline, align, and harmonize the RBPMS and PBI System with ease of doing business initiatives, and reform the government performance evaluation process and incentives system towards a more responsive, efficient, agile, and competent bureaucracy.”

The PCO said the presidential directive mandates the creation of a Technical Working Group (TWG) that will review the existing RBPMS and PBIS.

The Executive Secretary should form the TWG, which would include the chiefs of the Department of Budget and Management, Department of Finance, and National Economic and Development Authority; and the director general of the Anti-Red Tape Authority.

EO No. 61 says the TWG may consult other government agencies to fulfill its task.

The TWG was likewise instructed to submit a report to the Office of the President after conducting the review.

EO No. 61 takes effect immediately.