MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Memorandum Circular No. 72, September 8, 1966 ]

AUTHORIZING FORTNIGHTLY CONFERENCES AMONG PROJECT MANAGERS OF FOREIGN-FINANCES PROJECTS.

Project managers of the various foreign-financed projects of the Government are hereby authorized to conduct fortnightly conferences for the following purposes:

(1) To discuss problems of mutual concern among the project and evolve practical solutions to them;

(2) To facilitate coordination between operating agencies engaged in the projects and other government offices concerned with project implementation; and

(3) To give project managers, through a system of rotating hosts, accurate knowledge of the projects, by bringing them to their locale.

Conferences are grouped into two, based on the similarity of projects, as follow:

GROUP A

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Type of Loan Agency
1) IBRD Load No. 290-PH(Dredging Equipment) Bureau of Public Works
2) Eximbank Loan No. 1022-N (Development and Improvement of the International Port Facilities of Manila, Pier 3 and Pier 15) Bureau of Public Works
3.) AID Loan No. 402-A-005 (Formerly DLR Loan No. 67 – Spare Parts and Replacement of Bridges, Sayne Highway, Manila North Road and Manila South Road) Bureau of Public Highways
4) Eximbank Loan No. 1440 (MIA Modernization Project Air Navigation Aids) Civil Aeronautics Administration
5) Nation-wide Telecommunications Expansion and Improvement Project Loan Bureau of Telecommunication

GROUP B

Type of Loan Agency
1) IBRD Loan No. 396-PH (Interim Program of Improvement of Water System NAWASA
2) World Bank Credit Project ($5M-Farm Mechanization Department of Rural Bank, Central Bank
3) IBRD Loan No. 325-PH (Maria Cristina Unit No. 3) National Power Corporation
4) IBRD Loan No. 297-PH (Angat River Hydro-electric Project) National Power Corporation
5) IBRD Loan No. 393 (UP Los Baños Development Program College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines

Date and Hour of Meetings

For Group A – Every 11th and 26th of the month

Fir Group B – Every 12th and 27th of the month

If the scheduled meeting falls on a Saturday, the meeting shall be held on the preceding Friday; if it falls on a Sunday, the meeting shall be held on the Monday following.

Meeting Place

Project managers shall take turns in hosting the conferences. Accordingly, each meeting shall be held at the agency assigned as agreed upon by the conferences.

The Presidential Management Task Force shall ensure faithful compliance of this Circular.

By authority of the President

(SGD.) RAFAEL M. SALAS
Executive Secretary

Manila, September 8, 1966


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