Administrative Order No. 188

SECTION 1. The National Economic and Development Authority is hereby directed to review and update the Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan for 1990 to 1992 for the purpose integrating therein a reconstruction and development program for the regions, provinces, cities and municipalities devastated by the recent earthquake and the other natural calamities that visited our country. For this purpose, the NEDA Director General is hereby instructed to convene the Inter-Agency Technical Sub-Committee created under NEDA Memorandum Order 2-86 dated May 13, 1986 which shall submit its recommendations to the NEDA Board on or before October 31, 1990.

SECTION 2. All the line departments and agencies shall augment their respective personnel complement in the areas affected by the recent earthquake and other natural calamities to enable the expeditious formulation of the reconstruction and development program, including the physical framework, by the respective Regional, Provincial, City and Municipal Development Councils.

SECTION 3. The NEDA Director General is hereby authorized to constitute Inter-Agency Task Forces as may be necessary, and issue the appropriate guidelines to implement this Administrative order. DONE in the City of Manila, this 30th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety. (Sgd.) CORAZON C. AQUINO President of the Philippines By the President: (Sgd.) CATALINO MACARAIG, JR. Executive Secretary