Name: DANIEL NACORDA Grade & Section: 12- Humility Date: June 22, 2018

Direction: Complete the table by writing the significant contributions of the specified administrations
to the different sectors in the country.

Sectors Estrada Admin. Arroyo Admin. Aquino Admin.

President Estrada vowed School buildings in To date, the government
that his administration barangays unserved by has constructed 1, 612
would give unwavering nearby schools. Some 555 Education reform. During
support for major schoolhouses will be Aquino's first State of the
education projects that completed within the next Nation Address (SONA),
seek to elevate the few weeks. Aquino announced his
country's public education The President has directed intention to reform the
system to a competitive DepEd to design education system in the
world-class standard. This classrooms within the Philippines by shifting to
pledge was given after the P250,000 budget so that K–12 education, a 12-year
inauguration of the P10.5- the government can build basic education cycle.
million division office of the more classrooms
Department of Education, throughout the country,
Culture and Sports in San especially in remote
Jose, Antique, a project barangays.
Education that is part of the P16.9- The President has
billion Third Elementary allocated P40 million for
Education Project (TEEP). the construction of new
What is commendable classrooms in the
about the TEEP is that it is Autonomous Region in
a multiproject program for Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
the country's 22 poorest
provinces. If their plans
materialize, TEEP will
construct 9,000 new
school rooms and repair
3,000. The 22 poorest
provinces will also each get
a new division office. So, it
is an implementation of
the President's "Erap Para
Sa Mahirap" program. We
take this occasion to thank
the two multilateral
funding institutions -- the
World Bank and the Japan-
based Overseas Economic
Cooperation Fund.
The privatization of public President Arroyo formally Before a new
hospitals has been going launched yesterday the P3- administration takes office
on since the regime of the billion universal health position at the end of the
late president Ferdinand insurance coverage that month, let’s review the
Marcos. The different would provide either free gains and benefits made in
administrations had or subsidized the health sector under the
different names for it: hospitalization and other leadership of President
public- medical assistance to Benigno Aquino III.
private partnerships, government and private
Health corporatization, user’s sector employees and Some big health
service fee schemes, indigent families. improvements have been
revenue enhancement made, particularly
programs, outsourcing or Mrs. Arroyo provided the Reproductive Health and
outright sale. Health funding for the program Responsible Parenthood
groups said privatization under Executive Order No. Act (RA 10354), mandating
has been the frameworkof 276, which she issued to that reproductive health
almost all health policies finance the government- services be universally
and programs of the subsidized universal health accessible; expanding the
various administrations insurance coverage of all coverage of the National
since Marcos. According to Filipinos. Health Insurance Act of
the Network Opposed to 2013 (RA 10606), allowing
Privatization, Marcos laid automatic PhilHealth
the legal framework for the coverage for indigents and
privatization of the informal sector; and
government hospitals the Graphic Health
through Presidential Warnings Law of 2014 (RA
 Decree 2029 and 10643), requiring tobacco
2080,which and products to bear eye-
catching warnings that
legalized the sale of effectively convey the risks
Welfareville Property of tobacco use and
where the National Center exposure to second hand
for Mental Health stands smoke.
through the Republic Act
5260.The late president The most far-reaching is
Corazon Aquino, on the the passage of the Sin Tax
other hand, prepared the Law (RA 10351), providing
organizational mechanism quantum leap in funding
for privatization by setting support to PhilHealth.
up the Committee on Despite a strong lobby
Privatization and the Asset against the measure, the
PrivatizationTrust. The Aquino administration
Build-Operate and Transfer mustered the political will
Law was also enacted necessary to pass the
during her term, which contentious measure. The
allowed the private sector winning margin in the
to access official Senate was only one vote.
development aid for
privatization The Sin Tax Law, to
Health projects.Privatization as a repeat, vastly increased
national government the funds available to the
program and policy perennially budget-
intensified under the deprived Department of
administration of Fidel Health (DOH). Within the
Ramos after his first year of its enactment
administration moved on December 2012, the
vigorously to privatize 2014 DOH budget jumped
public health careservices. by 57 percent from the
The Philippine Heart preceding year—a boost
Center, Lung Center of the that amounted to more
Philippines, National than PhP 30 billion. This
Kidney and Transplant year, up to PhP 122.7
Institute and Philippin billion has been allocated
e Children’s Medical Center to the DOH, nearly five
became government times the agency’s 2010
owned andcontrolled budget of PhP 24.65
corporations billion.
from its previous
categorization as public
hospitals
and are now earning
profits through its
expensive health services
thus depriving indigent
patients of accessible and
affordable health care.
Agriculture President Joseph Estrada The public and private In its goal to attain
has always believed that sectors are encouraged to inclusive economic growth,
agriculture has the invest in the agriculture one of the specific
potential to be the greatest sector as a long-term objectives of the
strength of the Philippine solution to end hunger in administration of Pres.
economy if nurtured the country. Benigno S. Aquino III
properly. His contributions Pampanga Rep. and (PNoy) is to strengthen the
to the agricultural sector former Philippine President agricultural sector. One of
include the Carabao Law Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo the major strategies
and Irrigation Law which said this to participants of identified towards the
he authored as senator, as the Global Strategic attainment of this is to
well as the highest Summit of Rise Against make credit more
agricultural growth in 20 Hunger on Thursday at a accessible to small farmers
years when he was barangay in Lapu-Lapu and fisherfolk to help in
president, a record 12% City. the improvement of their
increase (from =6% to Arroyo was the speaker of productivity and, thereby,
+6.6%) in spite of the Saturday’s event organized the improvement of their
effects of the El Nino crisis. by the Rise Against household incomes as well.
An Estrada Administration Hunger, which is an
will achieve food security international private
organization that aims to
eradicate crises on famine
and malnutrition in several
 parts of the world,
including the Philippines.

According to the
organizers, Arroyo was
chosen as the speaker
during the summit because
of her efforts to end the
rising incidents of hunger
during her term as
president.

Finance During the term of former The government goal of The central bank added
President Joseph Estrada, balancing the national that around 12% of the
several laws and economic budget by 2008 remains, 1,634 municipalities all
reforms contributed to the Finance Secretary over the country still have
financial aspect of Margarito B. Teves said no access to a bank or
Philippine governance. Satruday, a day after other types of financial
In particular, the New President Gloria Macapagal service providers.
General Banking Act Arroyo declared openness Of the 2.5 billion retail
(Republic Act No. 8791) to move back the zero- payment transactions
was implemented that deficit target to 2010 to processed in the country
opened up local banking to allow for more spending. per month, only 1% is
foreigners. With this, at In a statement, the through digital means.
least 10 international President chief economic These are the loopholes
banks have opened in the manager said the that FISC will aim to fill in.
country. government also remains
committed to narrowing
the budget gap to P63
billion next year or less
than 1% of gross domestic
product, from the expected
P125 billion or 2.1% of
economic output this year.
Environment Philippine Clean Air Act of Katribu party list first
The Aquino
1999 (Republic Act No. nominee Beverly Longid
administration’s biggest
8749) said it was insulting. “It is
environmental program,
Promotes and protects the insulting that those big
the National Greening
country’s environment and corporations who are also
Program (NGP), has been
environmental resources responsible for the massive
extended for another 12
for the right of the people destruction in the
years through an executive
to a balanced ecology. environment are awarding
order.
so-called environmental
awards. Second, it is
doubly insulting that President Benigno Aquino
Arroyo would receive such III signed EO No 193 on
an award when she has November 12 creating the
done nothing to protect Expanded National
the environment; in fact Greening Program, that
she has done the opposite. aims to reforest “all
Arroyo cannot claim to be remaining unproductive,
green when she has a denuded, and degraded
bloody record of human forestlands” from 2016 to
rights violations all over 2028, Malacanañang
the country.” announced in a statement
on Thursday, November
In response, Katribu and 26.
the Kalikasan People’s
Network for the Malacañang said there are
Environment also gave two 7.1 million hectares of
awards to Arroyo –the #1 such land in the country.
Eco Thug Award and the
Kalabasa Ecological Award.
Kalabasa is the term used
by Filipinos to mean
failure.
In a press conference
yesterday, Clemente
Bautista, national
coordinator of Kalikasan
PNE said that Arroyo is the
 “most anti-environment
and anti-people president
ever.”
Labor And Employment Estrada said empowering The Macapagal-Arroyo Fifteen years after the
the city’s 550,000 youth by administration boasts that Congress of the Philippines
providing them worthwhile it is handling the economy enacted R.A. 8759,
activities and livelihood well claiming a 6.1 percent otherwise known as the
opportunities would be a growth in the Gross PESO Act of 1999,
big help to them in Domestic Product (GDP) President Benigno S.
shaping their future. for the 4th quarter of Aquino III yesterday
“Dr. Jose Rizal had said 2005. It also said that it signed into law the
that the youth are the was able to generate legislative measures
hope of our nation. We in 750,000 jobs in 2005 and amending the same, thus
Manila are committed to achieved a slight paving the way for Filipino
do that: give them a good improvement in the jobseekers, especially
future so they can help our unemployment rate in those in the rural areas, to
country,” Estrada said. January of 2006 down to find better employment
“Our jobs-and-livelihood 7.4 percent from 7.7 opportunities in the
program is in place to help percent. country.
them.” But a survey conducted by The historic signing took
the World Bank revealed place also in a historic
that almost a fifth of the event, the 15th National
Filipino people reported PESO Congress, the crystal
experiencing hunger while year of public employment
about half considered services in the country.
themselves impoverished.
If only 7.4 percent of the
population is unemployed,
how come 17 percent of
the population experienced
hunger?
Justice Joseph Ejercito Estrada During Arroyo’s first year On October 15, 2012, the
was found guilty of as president, however, the Philippine government and
plunder, but was acquitted people experienced a rude the Moro Islamic Liberation
on the perjury charge. His jolt, which worsened Front (MILF) signed an
co-accused, son Jose throughout Arroyo’s historic Framework
‘Jinggoy’ and lawyer administration. Agreement, which will
Edward S. Serapio were The Arroyo government pave the way for the
also acquitted of plunder. continued to perpetrate establishment of the new
the same cases of human autonomous political
Beyond the verdict, rights violations, either by entity, the Bangsamoro, to
however, thought should commission or omission, it replace the Autonomous
be given on how the trial inherited from the previous Region in Muslim
was handled by the administrations. It has Mindanao. The Framework
Sandiganbayan, the special also tolerated, sometimes Agreement sets the stage
court that has jurisdiction even supported and for a final, enduring peace
over criminal and civil lauded, abusive acts that could end one of the
cases involving graft and committed by its military longest running
other offenses committed and police forces against insurgencies in the world.
by public officials and the civilian population. This will lead to greater
employees. stability, promote
prosperity and inclusive
growth, and enhance
unity—not only in
Mindanao, but across the
Philippines.
Science And The Estrada To give a fitting The Aquino administration
Technology administration's programs recognition to the lauded Department of
to steadfast support of Science and Technology
boost science and President Gloria (DOST) Undersecretary
technology in the country Macapagal-Arroyo to the Graciano P. Yumul, Jr. who
to make these more science and technology sought optional retirement
responsive to the sector, the Philippine for his exemplary
challenges of globalization scientific community contributions to the
and its thrust towards held“Alay Pasasalamat” 25 government's efforts to
agricultural modernization June 2010 at the Heroes advance the country's
will take centerstage in this Hall, Malacañan. science and technology.
Saturday's
episode of the radio-TV The “Alay Pasasalamat,” During the regular press
program JEEP ni organized by the National briefing in Malacanang on
Erap: Ang Pasada ng Academy of Science and Wednesday, Presidential
Pangulo. Technology, is a tribute to Spokesperson Edwin
the President by the Lacierda said Yumul was
 Filipino scientists, science among those who helped
scholars, members of the to improve the weather
science community and the forecasting system.
academe, technology
adoptors, and officials and
staff of the Department of
Science and Technology.
Highlights of the event
include an audio-visual
presentation on the
accomplishments of the
science community that
stemmed from the support
of the President during her
nine-year tenure, and
testimonials from
beneficiaries.
Transportation To the builder, the MRTC,
Arroyo proposed that the
Aquino Administration
the nation salutes you for Transportation System
a job well done under the Office of the Transportation Plan – A post on Facebook
most challenging is now going viral after
Security (OTS) which was
conditions. The successful veteran journalist Ira
construction of the $655- created during her Panganiban has ‘exposed’
million Metrostar Express the alleged plan of the
administration be
System, with nearly 17 past Aquino administration
kilometers of railroad transformed into the in relation to the
tracks and 13 modern transportation system of
stations along Metro National Transportation the Philippines.The
Manila’s strategic north- Security Regulatory incentive was given to the
south corridor, is a car companies for them to
testament to the vision of Commission (NTSRC). produce 200,000 cars for
your company and the the riding public instead of
dedication of its officers The OTS under the controlling the entry of
and employees. What you private vehicles in the
have accomplished will Department of country and just resolve
facilitate not only the Transportation was created the current mass transport
mobility of our people but system.
also the growth of our during Arroyo’s time as
economy and the president under Executive
protection of our
environment. You should Order No. 277.
take pride in this
accomplishment for it is
well-deserved.
Tourism The tourism industry President Gloria To President Benigno
continues to maintain a Macapagal-Arroyo signed Aquino III, tourism in the
positive and bright outlook into law, the proposed Philippines is a "low-lying
during the first year of the National Tourism Policy Act fruit," and is one of "the
Estrada Administration as of 2009 or Republic Act shortest and most efficient
the Department of Tourism 9593, declaring a national paths to inclusive growth."
(DOT) registered visitor policy for tourism as an
arrivals during the first 10 engine of Investment and As long as it it can be
months of the Estrada employment, growth and pursued in a sustainable
administration growing by national development. manner.
74.25 percent to 1.84
million. Visitor receipts The proposed law is seen The UNTWO International
likewise posted double as a big boost to Philippine Conference on Tourism
digit increase of 31.60 tourism and the choice of and Climate Change in
percent to $217 million. Cebu as the setting of the Legazpi City, Bicol, Aquino
signing ceremony is emphasized the need to
Investment in 12 tourism deemed highly appropriate develop the country's
projects for the first five considering that the tourism industry while
months amounted to province has recently been addressing climate change.
P222.87 million. These named as the top tourism
investments stimulate destination of the country.
more economic activities,
create more jobs, and
expand tourism's
contribution to the GDP
and overall economic
performance of the
country.