Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO. ____ 
Introduced by HON. LUIS RAYMUND “LRAY” F. VILLAFUERTE, JR.,  
HON. MIGUEL LUIS R. VILLAFUERTE, HON. TSUYOSHI ANTHONY G. 
HORIBATA AND HON. NICOLAS “NICK” C. ENCISO VIII 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
This bill proposes the passage of a law mandating the establishment of a National Evaluation 
Policy to strengthen the legal and organizational framework for the regular conduct of 
monitoring and evaluation of the results of public policies, programs, projects, and other forms 
of government intervention intended to promote sustainable development to elevate the way 
of life of all Filipinos, especially the poor and the marginalized sector. 
While other countries have their own laws on National Evaluation Policy that apply to all 
branches and levels of government, the closest attempt of the Philippines was in 2015 when 
the National Economic and Development Authority and the Department of Budget and 
Management issued Joint Memorandum Circular No. 2015-01 establishing an evaluation 
policy framework to govern the practice of evaluation of programs and projects receiving 
budgetary support from the government. The said Circular has only been conducted for a few 
programs and projects of the Executive Branch, largely on the initiative of international 
development agencies.  
Having a National Evaluation Policy will help us determine the proper implementation of the 
country’s policies and programs in order to achieve and support good governance. It will also 
help us determine our direction in terms of national goals and assess whether they are 
effective and sustainable. 
In view of the foregoing, the immediate passage of this bill is most earnestly sought. 
LUIS RAYMUND “LRAY” F. VILLAFUERTE, JR. 
MIGUEL LUIS R. VILLAFUERTE  
TSUYOSHI ANTHONY G. HORIBATA 
NICOLAS “NICK” C. ENCISO VIII 
August 23, 2022
2:00 pm
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Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO. ____ 
Introduced by HON. LUIS RAYMUND “LRAY” F. VILLAFUERTE, JR.,  
HON. MIGUEL LUIS R. VILLAFUERTE, HON. TSUYOSHI ANTHONY G. 
HORIBATA AND HON. NICOLAS “NICK” C. ENCISO VIII 
AN ACT 
ESTABLISHING A NATIONAL EVALUATION POLICY 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assembled:  
SECTION 1. Statement of Policy. — To improve the national government's 
performance and to enhance the quality of public services, this National Evaluation 
Policy (NEP) is enacted to strengthen the legal and institutional framework for the 
regular conduct of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of the results of public policies, 
programs, and projects.  
SECTION 2. Policy Objectives. — The NEP intends to achieve the following 
objectives:  
a)
Facilitate the development and strengthening of an integrated M&E system of
the national government to ensure the regular measurement, reporting and
improvement of the performance of its agencies, policies, programs, projects and
services;
b)
Ensure the timely provision to national government policymakers and managers
of relevant, updated, valid and reliable knowledge about the outputs, outcomes,
impacts, and other results of public policies, programs, projects and services;
c)
Ensure the intensive utilization of M&E findings and recommendations in the
planning, programming, formulation, budgeting and implementation of public
policies, programs, projects and services;
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d)
Ensure the continuous improvement of public policies, programs, projects and
services to produce outputs, outcomes and impacts that substantially contribute
to the achievement of national development goals and priorities;
e)
Ensure the accountability of the national government and its agencies and
various public service providers to produce planned, expected or promised
results.
SECTION 3. Definitions. — The key terms used in this law are defined as follows: 
a)
Evaluation refers to the systematic and impartial process of assessing the results
of public policies, programs, projects, and services implemented or carried out
by the national government and/or its agencies or instrumentalities. It analyzes
the level of relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability of the
expected and actual outputs, outcomes and impacts of public policies, programs,
projects and services. It generates credible and useful evidence-based
information to substantially enable the results-oriented planning, programming,
budgeting, formulation and reformulation and implementation of public policies,
programs, projects and services.
b)
Monitoring refers to the systematic and continuous collection of data on agreed
indicators to track the short-term and medium-term progress and results of public
policies, programs, projects or services being implemented vis-a-vis planned
targets and objectives. It generates knowledge to guide government
policy/decision makers and managers of the necessary corrective actions to
ensure that policies, programs, projects or services being implemented produce
their intended results. While different from evaluation, monitoring is a crucial pre-
requisite for effective evaluations of policies, programs, projects and services.
c)
Results comprise the outputs, outcomes and impacts of policies, programs,
projects or services being implemented.
a.
Outputs are specific goods and services produced by budgeted and
implemented public policies, programs, projects, services and other
interventions.


b.  
Outcomes refer to the actual finite and measurable changes in the behavior 
or target individuals, groups, or organizations and/or improvements in the 
quality of processes and services as an immediate effect of specific 
interventions. 
Outcome 
evaluations 
generate 
knowledge 
on 
the 
effectiveness of policies, programs, projects and services in meeting their 
intended objectives.  
 
c.  
Impacts are the fundamental, broad sectoral and higher-level societal 
changes, both intended and unintended, that take place long after target 
individuals, groups, systems or organizations have experienced the outputs 
and outcomes of specific interventions. Impact evaluations  
 
SECTION 4. Coverage. — The NEP shall apply to the following:  
a)  
All departments, agencies, state universities and colleges (SUCs), government-
owned and/or controlled corporations (GOCCs), government financial institutions 
and other instrumentalities of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of 
the National Government;  
 
b)  
All public policies, programs, projects, services and other activities formulated 
and implemented by the above entities and funded by local and foreign funds 
including those contracted to and executed, produced and delivered by private 
sector and civil society organizations; The National Evaluation Council (NEC) 
created under Section 14 hereof may include other entities and activities imbued 
with public interest in the coverage of the NEP. 
 
SECTION 5. Evaluation Principles. — Evaluations of public policies, programs, 
projects and services shall be guided by the following key principles:  
a)  
Key criteria. Evaluations shall address, at a minimum, questions pertaining to the 
relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of public policies, 
programs, projects and services;  
 
b)  
Performance improvement Evaluations shall be designed, implemented and 
used to ensure the continuous improvement of the planning, programming, 


budgeting, formulation and reformulation and implementation of the national 
government's public policies, programs, projects and services.  
c)
Value for money. Evaluations should seek to determine whether the outputs,
outcomes and impacts of the national government's public policies, programs,
projects and services are commensurate to their invested financial, physical and
human resources.
d)
Minimum competencies of evaluators. Evaluators shall have the required
minimum competencies to effectively evaluate public policies, programs, projects
and services;
e)
Ethics. Those who commission, design, conduct, manage, and use evaluations
shall observe standards of ethics in evaluations. Impartiality in the planning and
conduct of evaluations shall be always ensured.
f)
Best practices. The conduct of evaluations shall be in accordance with
internationally recognized best practices and standards. Clear standards shall
govern the design, implementation, reporting, dissemination and use of
evaluations of public policies, programs, projects and services. Partnerships with
various stakeholders shall be encouraged in the prioritization, design,
implementation and use of evaluations.
SECTION 6. Evaluation Criteria. — At the minimum, evaluations of national 
government policies, programs, projects and services shall measure and report on 
their efficiency, effectiveness, relevance, impact and sustainability.  
a)
Efficiency measures the cost and time by which the intended outputs and short-
term and medium-term outcomes and long-term impacts of public policies
programs, projects and services were delivered/produced by national
government agencies and instrumentalities including their networks of private
and civil society service providers. Efficiency evaluations shall help government
policy/decision makers to ascertain whether the intended objectives were
achieved on time and at planned cost and to identify better and efficient ways of
meeting the objectives of policies, programs, projects and policies.


 
b)  
Effectiveness the quality and timeliness of the intended and unintended outputs 
and the short-term and medium-term outcomes and long-term impacts of public 
policies, programs, projects and services. Effectiveness evaluations shall 
measure the extent to which valued development and societal impacts can be 
attributed clearly to the public policies, programs, projects and services being 
implemented by the covered entities;  
 
c)  
Relevance measures the alignment and consistency of the results of public 
policies, programs, projects and services with national development goals and 
priorities and their responsiveness to stakeholder needs;  
 
d)  
Impact measures the fundamental, broad and higher-level societal effects of 
public policies, programs, projects, services and other national government 
interventions;  
 
e)  
Sustainability measures the extent to which the benefits of policies, programs, 
projects and services continue after funding ceased. Sustainability evaluations 
shall help government policy/decision makers to identify the major factors that 
influenced the achievement or non-achievement of the sustainability objectives 
of public policies, programs, projects and services. The NEC shall adopt 
additional monitoring and evaluation criteria including but not limited to 
development equity and inclusiveness for various stakeholders, responsiveness 
to gender-equality goals, and achievement of national development and 
sustainable development goals.  
 
SECTION 7. Evaluation Competencies. — Organizations and individuals engaged 
in designing, conducting and managing evaluations of public policies, programs, 
projects and services shall have the following minimum competencies:  
a)  
Technical 
foundation: 
Understands 
and 
makes 
appropriate 
use 
of 
methodological concepts and practices in line with accepted professional 
evaluation standards; gathers relevant evidence for evaluation purposes from 
appropriate sources, assessing its quality and identifying gaps; analyzes and 


interprets data fairly, comprehensively and objectively in order to effectively 
address evaluation questions.  
 
b)  
Leading, managing, and delivering evaluations. Manages evaluation resources 
and relationships with stakeholders to deliver high quality evaluations on time 
and to Philippine government standards.  
 
c)  
Communicating and sharing evaluation findings: Communicates effectively orally 
and in writing in the context of all evaluation activities; clearly reports evaluation 
methods, findings, conclusions and recommendations; promotes awareness and 
use of evaluations through effective dissemination and advice.  
 
d)  
Integrity. Demonstrates honesty and respect in dealing with project/program 
personnel, other interested personnel of the national government, and all other 
evaluation stakeholders.  
 
SECTION 8. Evaluation Ethics. — Evaluators or organizations and persons engaged 
in designing, conducting and managing evaluation activities shall abide by the Code 
of Conduct Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees (Republic Act No. 
6713). They shall:  
a)  
Respect the right of entities and individuals to provide information in Confidence;  
 
b)  
Ensure that sensitive data used in evaluations cannot be traced to its source;  
 
c)  
Give opportunity to all stakeholders involved in evaluations to review and 
approve the statements attributed to them;  
 
d)  
Be sensitive to the cultural, social and economic environment of all stakeholders, 
and conduct themselves in a manner that is fair and appropriate to this 
environment;  
 
e) 
Be accountable for their performance and their products.  
 


SECTION 9. Impartiality. — The evaluation units (created under Section 18 hereof) 
of entities and interventions covered by the NEP shall ensure that evaluations are 
conducted with the highest possible degree of impartiality in order to maximize 
objectivity and minimize the potential for bias. Where appropriate, they shall 
commission independent third-party evaluators to undertake portions of, or the entire, 
evaluations. Managers and other stakeholders of public policies, programs, projects 
and services being evaluated shall not be allowed to influence evaluation findings.  
 
SECTION 10. Evaluation Capacity Building. — The NEC shall lead the formulation 
and implementation of a comprehensive program to develop the monitoring and 
evaluation capacity of the national government especially for those who design, 
conduct, manage and use evaluations of public policies, programs, projects and 
services. All entities by this policy shall design and implement their respective 
evaluation-capacity building initiatives in line with this program and customized for 
their respective organizational context, roles, and needs. The national government, 
through the NEC, shall encourage and support the formation and strengthening of 
national, regional and local professional evaluation associations and network. The 
NEC shall also develop partnerships with state and private universities and colleges 
in the development and conduct of comprehensive evaluation courses.  
 
SECTION 11. Evaluation Scale. — To meet the information needs of government 
policy/decision makers and other stakeholders, different types of evaluations (i.e., 
diagnostic, formative and summative evaluations) of public policies, programs, policies 
and services shall be conducted. To guide the design of public policies, programs, 
projects or services prior to implementation, diagnostic evaluations shall be required 
as needed. To ensure that their intended outcomes are achieved, formative 
evaluations shall be conducted at the mid-point of period of implementation of public 
policies, programs, projects and services. Summative impact evaluations shall also be 
conducted six years after or at the end of implementation of a major public policy, 
program, project or service. The scale of each diagnostic, formative and summative 
evaluations should be large enough to provide timely answers to critical evaluation 
questions with an adequate level of certainty, but no costlier than necessary. The 
following factors shall be considered in defining the scale of every evaluation:  
a)  
level of ambiguity of outcomes especially for new interventions;  


 
b)  
potential consequences especially of policies, programs and projects whose 
failure can lead to severe negative consequences;  
 
c)  
information needs of government policy/decision makers for policies, programs 
and projects whose funding and renewal are at stake or those with a high public 
profile;  
 
d)  
magnitude of the policy, program and project intervention;  
 
e)  
complexity of policy, program, project or service in terms of number and variation 
of activities, size of target populations, regional reach; and anticipated difficulty 
associated with acquiring relevant data;  
 
f)  
uniqueness of the intervention with respect to outputs and outcomes/impacts. 
 
SECTION 12. Evaluation Design and Execution. — Within the defined evaluation 
scale, evaluations shall use research methodologies in line with accepted professional 
evaluation practice including but not limited to the following:  
a)  
logic models/change theories that depict key policy/program/project/service 
elements (i.e., inputs, activities, intended outputs, short-term outcomes, medium-
term outcomes, long-term impacts, related higher-level and national priorities) 
and the hypothesized causal links among the elements. Such logic 
models/change theories shall guide the development of questions to be 
answered by evaluations.  
 
b)  
baseline data and/or ongoing project/program performance data collected to 
support the evaluation;  
 
c)  
research designs that can significantly establish the extent to which outcomes 
and impact can be attributed to the policies, programs, projects and services 
being evaluated. Research designs shall include a mix of quantitative and 
qualitative research perspectives and methods- e.g., random surveys, interviews 
and focus groups with a diversity of audiences including project/program 


participants and stakeholders; literature/document reviews, and administrative 
data analyses;  
 
d)  
scientific and rigorous sampling strategies that provide accurate representation 
of the populations of interest;  
 
e)  
valid and reliable research instruments;  
 
f)  
comprehensive and accurate quantitative and qualitative data analysis strategies 
that take into account the context of policies, programs and projects being 
evaluated that can generate valid, reliable and defensible findings for each 
evaluation question;  
 
g)  
conclusions drawn from a synthesis of findings;  
 
h)  
recommendations based on the findings and conclusions;  
 
i)  
evaluation reports and related presentations that are concisely and clearly written 
and communicated. Evaluation reports and presentations shall ensure that all 
audiences including decisionmakers (i.e., project/program managers to senior 
officials and legislators) can readily grasp key messages and make informed 
decisions about the policies, programs, projects, and services being evaluated. 
The NEC and the entities covered by the NEP shall establish evaluation review 
panels, advisory committees and other mechanisms to assure the high quality of 
evaluations.  
 
SECTION 13. Reporting and dissemination of evaluations. - All final evaluation 
reports shall contain the following essential contents:  
a)  
adequate description of the policy, program, project or service being evaluated; 
 
b)  
adequate background and context including the purpose of the evaluation and 
the evaluation issues and questions;  
 


c)  
description of the actual evaluation methodology including limitations and the 
approaches adopted to mitigate limitations;  
 
d)  
clearly stated evaluation findings with the description of the evidence on which 
each finding is based;  
 
e)  
recommendations developed by the evaluator based on the findings;  
 
f)  
response from the head(s) of the covered entities, describing actions that will be 
taken in addressing each recommendation;  
 
g)  
the identities of the principal members of the evaluation team and the evaluation 
steering committees or advisory bodies tasked with oversight and assuring the 
quality of evaluations; The NEC shall issue additional directives as necessary.  
 
SECTION 14. Creation of the National Evaluation Council. — A National Evaluation 
Council is hereby established to act as the lead agency for implementing the NEP. Its 
membership shall ensure adequate representation of the executive, legislative and 
judicial branches of the national government. It shall also ensure that sufficient 
participation of experts from the academe and private sector and civil society 
stakeholders are taken into consideration in decisions of the NEC. Its organizational 
and staffing pattern shall be in accordance with existing government policies, rules 
and regulations.  
 
SECTION 15. Composition of the National Evaluation Council. — The NEC shall 
have eight (8) voting members:  
1)  
A career Undersecretary of the National Economic and Development Authority 
(NEDA) in charge of monitoring and evaluation; to be appointed by the NEDA 
Secretary as his/her official representative to the NEC;  
 
2)  
A career Undersecretary of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) 
in charge of government performance reporting, monitoring and evaluation 
and/or improvement as Co-Chairperson, to be appointed by the DBM Secretary 
as his/her official representative;  


 
3)  
The head of the Presidential Management Staff or his or her officially appointed 
representative;  
 
4)  
A career Deputy Secretary General/ Director General in charge of policy 
planning, research and/or evaluation in the House of Representatives, to be 
appointed by the House Speaker as his/her official representative;  
 
5)  
A career Deputy Secretary General/ Director General in charge of policy 
planning, research and/or evaluation in the Philippine Senate, to be appointed 
by the Senate President;  
 
6)  
A Deputy Court Administrator in charge of performance monitoring and 
evaluation of the judicial branch, to be appointed by the Court Administrator as 
his/her official representative;  
 
7)  
A Commissioner of the Commission on Audit (COA) to be appointed by the COA 
Chairperson as his/her official representative;) The head of the Philippine 
Statistical Authority (PSA) or his/her officially appointed representative;  
 
SECTION 16.Functions of the National Evaluation Council. - The NEC shall 
perform the following functions to implement the NEP:  
a)  
formulate the basic guidelines for ensuring systematic and regular evaluations of 
national government policies, programs, projects and services. The guidelines 
shall cover the following matters:  
a. administrative policy on the conduct of evaluations;  
b. evaluation criteria and standards;  
c. studying and acquiring information on the effects of government interventions;  
d. conduct of diagnostic, formative and summative impact evaluations;  
e. acquisition of experts with knowledge and experience in evaluation;  
f. utilization of evaluation findings in the planning, programming, budgeting, 
formulation, reform, implementation of government interventions;  
g. publication of information related to evaluations;  
h. other measures to ensure systematic and regular conduct of evaluations.  


 
b)  
serve as the national government's administrative policy center for M&E, 
providing guidelines for monitoring, measuring and reporting the performance of 
public policies, programs, projects and services;  
 
c)  
lead in the formulation, coordination and implementation of a comprehensive and 
continuous program to develop and strengthen the evaluation capacities 
including the integrated M&E system of the national government and its agencies 
and instrumentalities;  
 
d)  
provide overall policy direction, coordination, formulation and implementation of 
the 
evaluation 
agenda 
of 
the 
national 
government 
and 
its 
agencies/instrumentalities;  
 
e)  
monitor progress of M&E development and strengthening of the national 
government and its agencies/instrumentalities;  
 
f)  
lead the development of a comprehensive program to improve the national 
government's performance;  
 
g)  
lead and coordinate the preparation of the annual national performance report; 
 
h)  
facilitate or manage national or sectoral evaluations and special evaluation 
studies, on top of those conducted by implementing agencies;  
 
i)  
work with the private sector and civil society to promote feedback mechanisms 
as input to M&E of the national government and all its agencies/instrumentalities;  
 
j)  
facilitate the development of national and regional M&E professional 
associations;  
 
k)  
disseminate the results of evaluations to government policy/decision makers and 
managers of programs, projects and services of the agencies in the executive, 
legislative and judicial branches of the national government. The NEC shall meet 


every quarter or as often as necessary. It may authorize the creation of technical 
committees, advisory bodies, and other mechanisms to ensure high-quality 
evaluations.  
 
SECTION 17. Creation of the NEC Secretariat and its Functions. — In the interim, 
the Monitoring and Evaluation Staff of the NEDA shall serve as the NEC Secretariat. 
Within six months after the enactment of this policy, the NEC Secretariat attached to 
the NEDA shall be formally organized to provide technical, managerial and 
administrative support to the NEC. The NEC Secretariat shall be headed by an 
Executive Director. Subject to the approval of the NEC and to existing government 
laws and regulations on government organization, staffing, services and divisions as 
needed to effectively support the NEC's functions and responsibilities shall be created. 
The NEC Secretariat shall be an attached agency of the NEDA. The NEC Secretariat 
shall have the following responsibilities:  
a)  
recommend for the NEC's approval, evaluation policies, principles, standards, 
criteria, strategies and guidelines for the effective implementation of the NEP;  
 
b)  
recommend to the NEC the format and content of evaluation plans and reports;   
 
c)  
monitor and report on progress and results of evaluation activities undertaken by 
the NEC and covered entities;  
 
d)  
serve as a repository of all evaluation plans and reports of the national 
government and its agencies/instrumentalities;   
 
e)  
upload in its website within 15 days from completion of all final evaluation reports 
for public policies, programs, projects and services of the national government 
and its agencies and instrumentalities;  
 
f)  
notify the key stakeholders of the national government within 15 days from 
completion about final evaluation plans and completed evaluations of public 
policies, programs, projects and services;  
 


g)  
provide hard and soft copies of final evaluation reports to the following 
stakeholders of the Philippine Congress: the House Speaker; the Senate 
President; the concerned chairpersons and committee secretaries of 
congressional committees with jurisdictions over public policies, programs, 
projects and services being evaluated; and the support offices of the House of 
Representatives and the Philippine Senate performing budget and policy 
research and technical assistance to the members of Congress;  
 
h)  
disseminate evaluation plans and completed evaluation reports of the national 
government and its agencies and instrumentalities;  
 
i)  
conduct capacity-development activities on evaluation with partners from the 
government, private and civil society sectors;  
 
j)  
conduct/manage evaluations as authorized by the NEC;  
 
k)  
provide Secretariat support to the NEC;  
 
l)  
recommend sanctions and incentives;  
 
m)  prepare a consolidated report of individual evaluations for the NEC's appropriate 
action.  
 
SECTION 18. Evaluation Agenda. — The agencies and instrumentalities of the 
executive, legislative and judicial branches of the national government shall identify 
public policy, program, projects service evaluations for inclusion in the six-year rolling 
National Evaluation Agenda (NEA). The NEC, with the assistance of its Secretariat, 
shall lead the coordination in preparing and finalizing the NEA. It shall adopt guidelines 
and criteria for selecting policies, programs, projects and services for evaluations. 
Such criteria shall include but not limited to the following:  
a)  
high-risk innovative policies, programs, projects, services;  
 
b)  
any public policy, program, project or service set up as a pilot or demonstration;  
 


c)  
large scale or high-profile policies/programs. All agencies and instrumentalities 
of the national government from the executive, legislative and judicial branches 
shall formulate and maintain a continuously updated six-year evaluation agenda, 
to coincide with the timeframe of the preparation of the Philippine Development 
Plan (PDP) and Public Investment Program (PIP). The evaluation agenda of the 
national government agencies and instrumentalities shall specify public policies, 
programs, projects and services to be subjected to diagnostic, formative and 
summative evaluations and their timelines. The NEC, with the assistance of its 
Secretariat, shall review the six-year evaluation agenda of national government 
agencies and instrumentalities to identify high priority evaluations for integration 
in the National Evaluation Agenda. 
 
SECTION 19. Creation of Neutral Evaluation Units of Covered Entities. — The 
head of any national government department, agency or instrumentality shall establish 
capable and neutral evaluation unit initially at the central level subject to existing 
policies, rules, and regulations of the DBM on organizational and staffing pattern 
changes. The head of the evaluation unit reports directly to the head of the 
department, agency or instrumentality. To support the work of the neutral evaluation 
unit, the head of the national government department, agency or instrumentality shall 
establish a senior-level M&E advisory committee for support and oversight of M&E 
initiatives of the entity covered by the NEP.  
 
SECTION 20. Functions of the Neutral Evaluation Units. — The evaluation unit of 
national government departments, agencies and instrumentalities shall:  
a)  
formulate and submit the agency's six-year rolling evaluation agenda to the head 
of the agency, copy furnished the NEC Secretariat;  
 
b)  
lead the implementation of the evaluation agenda of the department, agency or 
instrumentality;  
 
c)  
plan, conduct and manage evaluations of policies, programs, projects and 
services within the mandated functions and responsibilities of the department, 
agency or instrumentality;  
 


d)  
ensure that evaluations are undertaken with due regard for impartiality and in line 
with evaluation best practices;  
 
e)  
manage the agency's evaluation budget and related activities;  
 
f)  
submit to the agency head evaluation findings and recommendations, copy 
furnished the NEC and its Secretariat;  
 
g)  
serve as repository of all evaluation studies conducted/commissioned by the 
department, agency or instrumentality;  
 
h)  
upload in its website within 15 days from completion of completed evaluation 
plans and final evaluation reports;  
 
i)  
submit evaluation plans and final evaluation reports to the NEC Secretariat in 
accordance with prescribed guidelines;  
 
j)  
develop and strengthen the M&E system of the department, agency o 
instrumentality;  
 
k)  
prepare annual reports on the performance of policies, programs, projects and 
services implemented by the department, agency or instrumentality, and 
disseminate the same to the head of the department, agency or instrumentality; 
the relevant committees and support offices of the House of Representatives and 
the Philippine Senate; and the NEC and its Secretariat.  
 
l)  
provide input to budget and policy discussions. The NEC shall issue guidelines 
governing the formation and operation of neutral evaluation units of entities 
covered by this policy.  
 
SECTION 21. Utilization of Evaluation Findings and Recommendations. — The 
heads of departments, agencies and instrumentalities shall submit reports on their 
management response and other actions on the findings and recommendations of 
completed evaluations, to the NEC and its Secretariat, the Speaker of the House and 


the Senate President and to the relevant committee chairpersons and support offices 
of the two branches of Congress. The heads of departments, agencies and 
instrumentalities of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the national 
government shall ensure that M&E data, findings and recommendations are used to 
guide 
and 
improve 
the 
planning, 
programming, 
budgeting, 
formulation, 
implementation and oversight of public policies, programs, projects and services. The 
NEC and its Secretariat and the evaluation units and M&E advisory committees of the 
entities covered by this policy shall monitor the actions of the national government and 
its agencies and instrumentalities, on evaluation findings and recommendations.  
 
SECTION 22. Project/Program Proposals. — All policies, programs, projects or 
services put forward for annual budgeting shall include an evaluation plan in 
accordance with the best practices. The policies, programs, projects or services for 
funding shall consider the results of their completed evaluations and make reference 
to relevant evaluation findings, recommendations, and resulting changes to the 
proposed 
policies, 
programs 
or 
projects. 
In 
cases 
where 
evaluations 
recommendations were not followed, the proposal for funding shall include an 
explanation.  
 
SECTION 23. Mainstreaming of the NEP. — The national government and its 
agencies and instrumentalities in the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the 
national government shall allocate at least three percent (3%) of their annual budgets 
for implementation of the NEP. Such funds shall be used for:  
a)  
evaluation capacity development;  
b)  
ongoing salaries, recruitment and training to ensure an adequate supply of 
internal personnel competent in evaluation; 
c)  
operations and maintenance; and,  
d)  
external professional service fees.  
 
SECTION 24.. Implementing Rules and Regulations. — The NEC shall formulate 
the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of this Act. The IRR shall specify the 
target outputs, short-term and medium-term outcomes, long-term impacts and other 
intended results of this policy. The IRR shall provide for the conduct of formative and 


summative evaluations of the NEP two and five years, respectively, after its initial  
implementation.  
 
SECTION 25. Amendment. — The findings and recommendations of the formative 
and summative evaluations, in addition to the feedback of various stakeholders 
including but not limited to the NEC and its Secretariat, neutral evaluation units of 
entities covered by the NER and private sector and civil society organizations including 
international donor agencies shall guide amendments of the NEP including the basic 
guidelines for NEP's implementation formulated by the NEC.  
 
SECTION 26. Repeating Clause. — All policies and issuances or parts thereof 
inconsistent with the NEP are hereby repealed or amended accordingly.  
 
SECTION 27. Effectivity. — This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its 
publication in the Official Gazette or in a national newspaper of general circulation.  
 
Approved,