Other Executive Offices (OEOs)
Isang linya, maraming ahensya — kultura, plano ng ekonomiya, peace process, lahat diretso sa Pangulo.
Other Executive Offices is the budget's grab-bag: agencies that answer directly to the President and belong to no department. The economic planning body sits here, alongside the cultural agencies led by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, the offices that coordinate the peace process, and a shifting cast of special commissions and councils created by one administration or another. They share a line not because they are similar but because they are administratively homeless.
The heterogeneity is the point. A reader scanning this line will find some of the smallest budgets in the government sitting next to a planning body whose influence is far larger than its peso share. The line is also where administrations park their signature offices — and where those offices are buried when the administration changes.
Proposed for FY2027
₱67.16B
Line items
8,095
Agencies
31
How it got here
There is no founding law for this line because it is a bookkeeping convention, not a mandate: the budget classifies as other executive offices whatever agencies do not fit the departmental scheme. The composition has moved with every administration as presidents created bodies attached to the Office of the President and successors reorganized or retired them. The cultural agencies give the grab-bag a legal floor — the NCCA was created by RA 7356 in 1992 as the overall policy-making and grants-giving body for arts and culture, and the institutions under it carry statutes of their own.
By operating unit
20 operating unit rows in total. Showing 20 on page 1, charting the largest 15. Switch to the table for every row on this page.
Department total ₱67,161,569,000. Rows within a page are ranked by amount; the source returns them in that order and we do not re-sort them.
What the money buys
The cultural side pays for grants to artists and cultural workers, heritage conservation, and the programming of national cultural institutions. The planning side funds the policy machinery that drafts development plans and evaluates investments. Peace-process offices fund programmes aimed at sustaining agreements with former combatants and their communities. The rest is the operations of small commissions and councils — offices whose budgets are tiny but whose mandates range from housing concerns to sectoral representation.
Because the line is mixed, its money moves unevenly: a new presidential commission can appear one year and be gone the next, while the cultural and planning bodies persist through administrations.
Reading this year's proposal
Scan this line for structure rather than size. Which offices are new, and which were retired? Does cultural funding hold steady while the commissions turn over — and is the planning body's budget growing with its responsibilities? For a line with no theme, the pattern of increases and disappearances is the most informative thing on the page: it is, in effect, a record of what each administration wanted standing directly beside it.