ESTABLISHING A CIVIL SERVICE ACADEMY TO IMPLEMENT CENTRALIZED TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE.

• Number: Presidential Decree No. 1218
• Sections: 9

Preamble

WHEREAS, it is the policy of the government to provide

opportunities to its employees at all levels to improve and develop themselves

so that they can better contribute to the realization of agency and national

goals;

WHEREAS, the Civil Service Commission, as the central

personnel agency of the government, exercises the leadership iunction in all

training activities and programs and is responsible for integrating such

programs into a total career development pattern;

WHEREAS, in the exercise of this function, the Commission

has encouraged through appropriate standards and guidelines, the various

departments and agencies of the government to establish appropriate training

programs iJDnsistent with previously determined needs of their employees;

WHEREAS, although there has been enthusiam and readiness to

formulate and conduct training programs on the part of the departments and

agencies, the Commission has still found it necessary to conduct direct training

affecting those areas of management that are of government-wide application and

concern;

WHEREAS, in conducting these training programs, the

Commission has been guided by the requirements of a more effective and

innovative service in the New Society;

WHEREAS, such requirements dictate that the training program

of the Commission which generally affect those occupying middle management and

first-line positions', be pursued on a more systematic, integrated and

purposeful scale;

WHEREAS, similar training for higher level management are

conducted by duly-established training institutions resulting in a greater

concentration of resources for this purpose.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the

Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby

decree:

Section 1

SECTION 1. There is hereby established a Civil Service

Academy, hereinafter referred to as the Academy, which shall be responsible for

the planning, formulation, and implementation of training and other employee or

career development programs in the first and second levels of the career service

that have government-wide application, particularly those concerned with

improving the level of competence of supervisors, from first-line to middle

management. It shall likewise be responsible for the formulation of policies

that shall govern all scholarship programs in the government, locally or

abroad.

Section 2

SEC. 2. The operations of the Academy shall be managed by'a

Board of Trustees hereinafter referred to as the Board, to be headed by the

Chairman of the Civil Service Commission as Chairman, the Secretary of Economic

Planning as Vice-Chairman and the Budget Commissioner, Secretary of Local

Government and Community Development, and the President of the Development

Academy of the Philippines. A majority of the members of the Board shall

constitute a quorum for the transaction of its business.

Section 3

SEC. 3. The Office of Training and Personnel Development of

the Commission shall provide secretariat and support services to the Academy,

including determination of training needs, conduct of training research,

preparation of training programs and necessary literature and other

instructional materials and evaluation of the training programs. The Director of

the Office shall concurrently be the Executive Director of the Academy.

Section 4

SEC. 4. The Academy shall draw up and conduct continuing

training programs for the various employee levels in the career service without

precluding individual departments and agencies from conducting their own

training programs should the need for such arise. However, these training

programs shall first be approved by the Commission.

Section 5

SEC. 5. Participants in the training programs of the1

Academy shall be accepted upon nomination by (the department and agency heads

concerned, in accordance with requirements to be set by the Academy. An

appropriate training fee shall be charged for such participation.

Section 6

SEC. 6. For purposes of the foreign scholarship programs,

the Academy shall be assisted by the appropriate office in the National Economic

and Development Authority.

Section 7

SEC. 7. The Civil Service Commission shall initially draw up

rules and policies for the effective operation of the Academy. The rules and

policies shall be subject to the approval of the Board.

Section 8

SEC. 8. The Academy shall be operational not later than

three months from the promulgation of this Decree, within which period the

aforementioned rules and policies shall have been established.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 14th day of October, in the year of Our

Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-seven.