Institution

Description

Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)

Department of Agrarian Reform is the lead implementing agency of Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). It undertakes land tenure improvement and development of program beneficiaries. DAR conducts land survey in resettlement areas. It undertakes land acquisition and distribution and land management studies. The DAR also orchestrates the delivery of support services to farmer-beneficiaries and promotes the development of viable agrarian reform communities.

Department of Agriculture (DA)

The Department of Agriculture (DA) is the principal agency of the Philippine government responsible for the promotion of agricultural development growth. In pursuit of this, it provides the policy framework, helps direct public investments, and in partnership with local government units (LGUs) provides the support services necessary to make agriculture and agri-based enterprises profitable and to help spread the benefits of development to the poor, particularly those in rural areas.

Bureaus

Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Service (AMAS)

The Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Service (AMAS) is mandated to facilitate and coordinate the efforts of the Department in all matters pertaining to agribusiness development and marketing activities. It also mandated to collaborate and provide assistance to private sector including concerned NGOs and POs, farmers and fisherfolk in marketing and agribusiness investment ventures.

Agricultural Training Institute (ATI)

The Agricultural training Institute (ATI) is mandated to coordinate diversified agricultural extension delivery systems for the local government sector and other stakeholders to facilitate the flow of information on technology and other services such as fund management, network establishment and systems for standardization and certification of extension providers that can empower the farmers and fisher folk to become more globally competitive.

Bureau of Agriculture & Fisheries Product Standards(BAFPS)

The Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Product Standards (BAFPS) is mandated to To set and implement standards for fresh, primary- and secondary-processed agricultural and fishery products.

Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR)

The Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) is mandated to ensure that agricultural research is coordinated and undertaken for maximum utility to agriculture. The EO requires the Bureau to tap farmers, farmers' organizations and research institutions especially state colleges and universities in the conduct of research for use of the Department of Agriculture and its clientele.

Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS)

The Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS) serves as the central information source and server of the National Information Network (NIN); and provides technical assistance to end-users in accessing and analyzing product and market information and technology.

Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI)

The Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) formulates policies and programs designed to accelerate the industries and provides adequate technical services in animal health, feed quality promotion, livestock production technology, marketing, research and development, post production technology and human resources development.

Bureau of Fisheries & Aquatic Resources (BFAR)

The Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) formulates policies and programs designed to accelerate the industries and provides adequate technical services in animal health, feed quality promotion, livestock production technology, marketing, research and development, post production technology and human resources development.

Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI)

The Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) formulates policies and programs designed to accelerate the industries and provides adequate technical services in animal health, feed quality promotion, livestock production technology, marketing, research and development, post production technology and human resources development.

Bureau of Postharvest Research and Extension (BPHRE)

The Bureau of Postharvest Research and Extension (BPRE) is mandated to generate, extend and commercialize appropriate and problem-oriented postproduction technologies and practices to reduce losses, improve food and feed quality and maximize the benefits to various stakeholders.

Bureau of Soils & Water Management (BSWM)

The Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM) is committed to continuously search for the best and precise soil and water management practices and technology and their promotion to specific appropriate locations. 

Attached Agencies

Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC)

The Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC) is the institution on agri-credit policy and program development that promote a sustainable and effective delivery of financial services to the countryside.

Cotton Development Administration (CODA)

The Cotton Development Administration (CODA) is the sole agency of the government tasked to undertake initiatives that will spur the growth of the local cotton industry through cotton research, development and extension.

Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority (FPA)

The Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority (FPA) is mandated to assure adequate supplies of fertilizer and pesticide at reasonable prices; rationalize the manufacture and marketing of fertilizer; protect the public from the risks inherent in the use of pesticides; and educate the agricultural sector in the use of these inputs.

Fiber Industry Development Authority (FIDA)

The Fiber Industry Development Authority (FIDA) is mandated to promote the accelerated growth and development of the Philippine fiber industry in all its aspects including research, production, processing, marketing and trade regulation.

Livestock Development Council (LDC)

TLivestock Development Council (LDC) serve as the policy making body for the livestock and poultry sector of the Department of Agriculture.  LDC is a dynamic Council serving as the coordinating body between the government and the private sector and as the lead agency in policy making, to promote a globally competitive and sustainable livestock and poultry industries..

National Agricultural and Fishery Council (NAFC)

The National Agricultural and Fishery Council (NAFC) is committed to ensure participatory broad-based decision making in agriculture and fisheries by providing quality services to its nationwide network to private sector-led consultative councils toward the formulation of sound policy and program recommendations for sustained countryside development.

National Dairy Authority (NDA)

The National Dairy Authority (NDA) provides an excellent technical and extension support that will maximize the economic and social benefits to the NDA's mandated target groups, and to efficiently and responsibly use public resources for the enhancement and modernization of Philippine agriculture through dairying.

National Food Authority (NFA)

The National Food Authority (NFA) promotes the integrated growth and development of the grains industry covering rice, corn, feed grains and other grains like sorghum, mongo, and peanut. It is vested with regulatory powers over the grains industry and is likewise tasked with implementing the government's food security program and distribution of certain specified commodities such as sugar.

National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI)

The National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI) shall serve as the primary research arm of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR).

National Meat Inspection Commission (NMIC)

The National Meat Inspection Commission (NMIC) promulgates and implements policies, procedures, guidelines, rules and regulations governing post- production flow of livestock and meat and meat products (both locally produced and imported) through the various stages of marketing and proper handling, inspection, processing, storage and preservation of such products.

National Nutrition Council (NNC)

The National Nutrition Council (NNC), as mandated by law, is the highest policy-making and coordinating body on nutrition.

National Tobacco Administration (NTA)

The National Tobacco Administration (NTA) is a government body which handles anything and everything that has to do with the Philippine tobacco industry, especially in ensuring its growth and development.

Philippine Carabao Center (PCC)

The Philippine Carabao Center (PCC), an attached agency of the Department of Agriculture, is tasked to improve farmers' income, nutrition, and general well-being through the enhancement of carabao's potentials as a source of draft power, meat, milk and hide.

Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA)

The Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) oversees the development of the coconut and other palm oil industry in all its aspects and ensures that the coconut farmers become direct participants in, and beneficiaries of, such development and growth.

Philippine Fisheries Development Authority (PFDA))

The Philippine Fisheries Development Authority (PFDA) is mandated to strengthen the government's developmental thrusts for the country's fishing industry through programs that would balance fishery production ventures with adequate post-harvest infrastructure support facilities. It promotes the growth of the fisheries sector and improves efficiency in the handling, preservation, marketing and distribution of fish and fishery products through the establishment and administration of fish ports and other critical infrastructure.

Philippine Rice Research Institute (PRRI)

The PhilRice is a key player in building a self-sufficient and competitive rice economy through research, technology promotion, and policy advocacy.

Aquaculture Department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC/AQD)

The Aquaculture Department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC/AQD) is one of four departments of SEAFDEC, a Southeast Asian regional treaty organization created in 1967 to promote fisheries development in the region. SEAFDEC's Secretariat is based in Bangkok, Thailand.

Sugar Regulatory Administration

The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) is the principal agency of the Philippine government responsible for the promotion of growth and development of the sugar industry.

Department of Budget and Management (DBM)

The Department of Budget and Management, created under Executive Order No. 21 dated April 25, 1936, is mandated under this Order and by subsequent issuances to promote the sound, efficient and effective management and utilization of government resources (i.e., technological, manpower, physical and financial) as instrument in the achievement of national socioeconomic and political development goals.

Department of Education (DepEd)

Bureau of Elementary Education

The main thrust of the Bureau of Elementary Education is to provide access, progress and quality in elementary education. It formulates and implements key programs and projects to enable every citizen to acquire basic preparation that will make him an enlightened, disciplined, nationalistic, self-reliant, God loving, creative, versatile and productive member of the national community.

Bureau of Nonformal Education (BNFE)

Bureau of Physical Education & School Sports

The Bureau of Physical Education and School Sports (BPESS) focuses in the strengthening capabilities and delivery of services in the elementary and secondary schools for students, teachers, coaches and all the partners in this undertaking.

Bureau of Secondary Education

By the Third Millennium, every Filipino youth shall further enjoy a better quality of life due to access to quality secondary education, good spiritual and moral life, economic stability, relevant cultural values, comprehensive work skills, strong sense of national identity and successful adjustment to his rapidly changing environment.

Center for Students & Co-Curricular Affairs

The Center for Students and Co-Curricular Affairs is a response to popular calls for active youth participation in nation-building, as in the case of other government department which organized their own youth centers or offices, and an innovation in the DepEd system in order to improve its delivery of services particularly in terms of youth and students affairs.

Commission on Higher Education (CHED)

The Commission on Higher Education is the governing body covering both public and private higher education institutions as well as degree-granting programs in all tertiary educational institutions in the Philippines. The CHED was established in May 18, 1994 through Republic Act 7722 or the Higher Education Act of 1994.

Educational Development Projects Implementing Taskforce

Assist the DepEd vigorously to provide access to qualify ad relevant education; achieve equitable distribution of educational services/resources, and  develop a just, humane and progressive society.

National Book Development Board (NBDB)

The National Book Development Board is the government agency mandated to develop and support the Philippine book publishing industry. Created by RA 8047 or the Book Publishing Industry Development Act in 1995.

National Educators Academy of the Philippines

The National Educators Academy of the Philippines (NEAP) responds to the demand for professional competence as well as management and leadership excellence in the educational community. To fulfill this mandate are three components: the training and development component; program and development component; and, research and development component.

National Educational Testing and Research Center

The National Educational Testing and Research Center leads in research, evaluation and assessment of the effectiveness of education which provide information vital of the formulation of educational policies geared towards the realization of an empowered and globally competitive Filipino.

National Science Teaching Instrumentation Center

Philippine High School for the Arts (PHSA)

The Philippine High School for the Arts (PHSA) is a special school that combines a general secondary education level program with a special curriculum geared toward recognizing and developing highly talented and exceptionally gifted artists and leaders educated and committed to the preservation, enhancement and promotion of the Filipino heritage through culture and the arts.

Presidential Commission On Educational Reform

School Health and Nutrition Center

Key programs includes Health and Nutrition Education; National Drug Education Program; Health Services; Medical, Dental and Nursing; TB Prevention and Control Program; School Milk Project; and Breakfast Feeding Programs

Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA)

TESDA formulates manpower and skills plans, sets appropriate skills standards and tests, coordinates and monitors manpower policies and programs, and provides policy directions and guidelines for resource allocation for the TVET institutions in both the private and public sectors.

Department of Energy (DOE)

Energy Regulatory Commission

The Energy Regulatory Commission promotes and protects long-term consumer interests in terms of quality, reliability and reasonable pricing of a sustainable supply of electricity.

National Electrification Administration

The National Electrification Administration is a highly competent, globally competitive Filipino government-owned and controlled corporation, working with its partners such as the Electric Cooperatives, committed to the ideals of the Rural Electrification Program. 

National Transmission Corporation (TransCo)

The National Transmission Corporation (TransCo) is a government-owned and controlled corporation created in 2001 by the Electric Power Industry Reform. It assumed the National Power Corporation’s electrical transmission functions which include the planning, construction and centralized operation and maintenance of high-voltage transmission facilities, grid interconnections and ancillary services.

Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC)

The Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) was created on November 9, 1973, to provide and maintain an adequate and stable supply of oil. Focusing its efforts and resources in learning the ropes of the petroleum industry, PNOC rose to occupy market leadership in an industry thought to be the domain of multinationals. Its charter was amended to include energy exploration and development.

Power Sector Assets & Liabilities Management Corp.

Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is the primary government agency responsible for the conservation, management, development and proper use of the country’s environment and natural resources, including those in reservations, watershed areas and lands of the public domain, as well as the licensing and regulation of all natural resources utilization as may be provided by law in order to ensure equitable sharing of the benefits derived there from for the welfare of the present and future generations of Filipinos.

Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau (ERDB)

The Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau (ERDB) is DENR's Research and Development (R & D) arm which assist interested parties who need technical or research-based information pertaining to the forest, grassland and degraded areas, upland farms, coastal zone and freshwater areas, and urban ecosystems.

Environmental Management Bureau (EMB)

The EMB is mainly responsible for the implementation and enforcement of R.A. 8749, otherwise known as Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999. Its primarily goal is to come out with a comprehensive national program to achieve and maintain air quality that meets the National Ambient Air Quality Guidelines for Criteria Pollutants and their emission standards, while minimizing the possible associated negative impacts on the country's economy.

Forest Management Bureau (FMB)

The Forest Management Bureau (FMB) provides support for the effective protection, development, occupancy management, and conservation of forest lands and watersheds. It collaborates with international and local development organizations in several forestry development programmes.

Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA)

The Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) leads, promotes and accelerates the development and balanced growth of the Laguna de Bay basin within the context of national and regional plans and policies for social and economic development and to carry out the development of the basin with due regard and adequate provision for, preservation of the quality of human life and ecological systems, and the prevention of undue ecological disturbances, deterioration and pollution.

Lands Management Bureau (LMB)

Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB)

The Mines and Geosciences Bureau is directly in charge in the administration and disposition of the country’s mineral lands and mineral resources.

National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA)

The National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) surveys and maps the nation's land and water environment, primarily in support of the various programs of its mother unit, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the national government. Among its major mandates is to provide both the public and private sectors with map-making services as well as geographic and resource information.

National Solid Waste Management Commission

The National Solid Waste Management Commission (NSWMC) is the major agency tasked to implement Republic Act 9003, the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000.

National Water Resources Board

The National Water Resources Board ("NWRB") is the lead government agency in the Philippine water sector, conferred with policy-making, regulatory and quasi-judicial functions. The NWRB is responsible for ensuring the optimum exploitation, utilization, development, conservation and protection of the country's water resource, consistent with the principles of Integrated Water Resource Management.

Natural Resources Mining Development Corporation

Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau (PAWB)

The Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau (PAWB) envisions a perpetual existence of biological and physical diversities in a system of protected areas and such other biologically important components of the environment managed by a well-informed and empowered citizenry for the sustainable use and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Department of Finance (DoF)

The Department of Finance is responsible for revenue generation, resource mobilization and fiscal management.

Bureau of Customs (BoC)

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) aims to provide a customs service more responsive to clients' needs and supportive of government goals, and adhering to world's best practices that every Filipino can be truly proud of.

Digital Customs Administrative Orders and Customs Memo Orders 1990-2000

Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR)

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is mandated to raise revenues for the government through effective and efficient collection of taxes, quality service to taxpayers, and impartial and uniform enforcement of tax laws.

Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF)

The Bureau of Local Government Finance is a change agent in the field of local government finance, providing guidance and assistance to LGUs, the public and private sectors, through responsive local fiscal policies, transforming LGUs into self-reliant and financially viable communities. It is vigilant and dedicated to the continuous discipline, development and professionalization of the Bureau and the local treasury and assessment services.

Bureau of Treasury

The Bureau of Treasury is mandated to assist in the formulation of policies on borrowing, investment and capital market development.

Government Service Insurance System (GSIS)

The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) provides and administers the following social security benefits for government employees: compulsory life insurance, optional life insurance, retirement benefits, disability benefits for work-related contingencies and death benefits.

National Credit Council (NCC)

The National Credit Council is mandated to rationalize and optimize the use and delivery of the various credit programs of the government.

National Tax and Research Center (NTRC)

The NTRC is the primary tax research institution of the Philippine government.  The NTRC website hopes to provide a venue for informing the Filipino taxpayer of what he should know so that he can comply with his tax obligations.

Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR)

The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation is the government agency established to regulate all games of chance in the country. It was created in 1976 to oversee the operation of gaming casinos, to generate funds for the government's developmental projects, to promote tourism in the country, and to help curb illegal gambling.

Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation (PDIC)

As a deposit insurer, statutory receiver and co-regulator of banks, PDIC will safeguard the interest of the depositing public and thereby contribute to the promotion of financial stability in the economy.

Public Estates Authority (PEA)

The Public Estates Authority (PEA), which is mandated to be self-sustaining, has created assets for the Government by converting underutilized land into valuable and income-generating real estate properties, especially in its 1,500-hectare reclamation project in Manila Bay known as Bay City. Aside from this, PEA is involved in a wide range of projects and delivery of services related to land development and urban renewal, infrastructure projects as well as financing and construction of buildings particularly for other government agencies.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as an independent, credible regulator adhering to international standards, aims to be a prime mover of Philippine economic development by ensuring a fair, efficient, and transparent capital market.

Philippine Export-Import Credit Agency (PHILEXIM)

The Trade and Investment Development Corporation of the Philippines (TIDCORP) or PHILEXIM is a wholly owned government financial institution attached to the Department of Finance. TIDCORP's corporate objective is to contribute to Philippine economic development as the national Export Credit Agency (ECA) by providing exporters with appropriate financing services. Specifically, it aims to increase exports by assuring speedy and unobstructed access to trade finance for all viable exporters, especially the small and medium and to help generate employment in the export sector.

Social Security System (SSS)

"It is the policy of the State to establish, develop, promote and perfect a sound and viable tax-exempt social security system suitable to the needs of the people throughout the Philippines which shall promote social justice and provide meaningful protection to members and their families against the hazards of disability, sickness, maternity, old age, death and other contingencies resulting in loss of income or financial burden. Toward this end, the State shall endeavor to extend social security protection to workers and their beneficiaries." (Section 2, RA 8282)ic