Declaration of Policy.
Section 1
SECTION 1. Declaration of Policy.—The Samar Integrated Rural Development Project, identified as the fourth Integrated Rural Development Project of the Philippines, hereinafter referred to as the Project, is hereby declared an integrated rural development project of the national government under the direct supervision of the Cabinet Coordinating Committee on Integrated Rural Development Projects of the National Economic and Development Authority. The Cabinet Coordinating Committee on Integrated Rural Development Projects, as created in Letter of Instructions No. 99 and stipulated in Presidential Decree No. 805, is composed of the Secretary of Agriculture as Chairman, Secretary of Public Works as Vice-Chairman, with the Secretaries of Finance, Public Highways, Natural Resources, Local Governments and Community Development, Agrarian Reform, National Economic and Development Authority, and the Office of the President, as members. The Cabinet Committee shall be charged with the planning and implementation of all rural development projects in the country. The following policies are adopted for the effective implementation thereof: (a) to integrate national and local government programs and projects with in its jurisdiction; and (b) to decentralize the planning and implementation of rural development projects.