Re-inventing government, Reengineering, Good Practices:

Gender Equality, PWD, Senior

Citizens, Indigenous People
Baetiong, Lennard James
Catabay, Melvin
De Castro, Dominico Roi
Perez, Bryan
Reyes, Rio

Introduction
The basic message of process reengineering/ reinventing
the government is that many work flows, job designs,
control mechanisms, and organizational structures are
either superfluous or obsolete, and should be completely
redesigned.
Michael Hammer, explains in a recent article in the Harvard
Business Review: "It is time to stop paving the cow paths.
Instead of embedding outdated processes in silicon and
software, we should obliterate them and start over. We
should reengineer our organizations; use the power of
modern information processing technology to radically
redesign the processes in order achieve dramatic
improvements in their performance. We cannot achieve
breakthroughs in performance merely by cutting fat or
automating existing processes. Rather we must challenge
the old assumptions and shed old rules."

GOVERNMENT PRACTICES
GENDER EQUALITY
Old Practice /LAW

Re-engineered
Practice / Newly
Created Process

Difference

R.A.
7877(Anti- R.A. No. 9262(Anti- In
general,
Sexual Harassment Violence
Against economic abuse,
Act of 1995)
Women
and physical,
sexual
Children
Act
of or
psychological
2004)harassment
of
women is covered
by
R.A.
No.
9262.While sexual
harassment in the
workplace, in which
male
employees
are
equally
protected,
R.A.
7877provides for a
broader definition of
work-related sexual

GOVERNMENT PRACTICES
GENDER EQUALITY
Old Practice /LAW

Re-engineered
Practice / Newly
Created Process

Article 135 of the

Labor
Code)
(Discrimination
Prohibited)

R.A. No. 6725(An

Act
Strengthening
the Prohibition on
Discrimination
Against Women with
Respect to Terms
and Conditions of
Employment

Difference

-strengthened
the
prohibition
on
discrimination
against women by
attaching
criminal
liability for willful
commission
of
unlawful
acts
of
discrimination
against women.

GOVERNMENT PRACTICES
GENDER EQUALITY
Old Practice /LAW

Re-engineered
Practice / Newly
Created Process

Article 135 of the

Labor
Code)
(Discrimination
Prohibited)

R.A. No. 6725(An

Act
Strengthening
the Prohibition on
Discrimination
Against Women with
Respect to Terms
and Conditions of
Employment

Difference

-a
condition
of
employment
or
continuation
of
employment that a
woman
employee
shall
not
get
married, to dismiss
or to prejudice a
female
employee
who
contracts
marriage
-Article
137(Prohibited
Acts)makes
it
unlawful to deny or
to
discharge
any
woman employee for

GOVERNMENT PRACTICES
SENIOR CITIZEN
Old Practice /LAW

Re-engineered
Practice / Newly
Created Process

Difference

Republic Act 7432

R.A.
No.
9994 -20% senior citizen
SENIOR CITIZEN ACT Expanded rights for discount can now be
Senior Citizen
used at the same
time
with
PhilHealth.

GOVERNMENT PRACTICES
PWD
Old Practice /LAW

Re-engineered
Practice / Newly
Created Process

REPUBLIC ACT NO.

7277 . AN ACT
PROVIDING FOR THE
REHABILITATION,
SELF-DEVELOPMENT
AND SELF-RELIANCE
OF DISABLED
PERSONS AND
THEIR INTEGRATION
INTO THE
MAINSTREAM OF
SOCIETY AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES.

REPUBLIC ACT NO.

10070
AN ACT
ESTABLISHING AN
INSTITUTIONAL
MECHANISM TO
ENSURE THE
IMPLEMENTATION
OF PROGRAMS AND
SERVICES FOR
PERSONS WITH
DISABILITIES IN
EVERY PROVINCE,
CITY AND

Difference

-References to the
term
"Disabled
Persons" on the title
and other sections
of the same Act are
hereby amended to
read as "Persons
with
Disabilities
(PWDs).
-LGUs
shall
establish a Persons
with
Disability
Affairs Office (PDAO)

GOVERNMENT PRACTICES
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
LAW

GOOD PRACTICE

REPUBLIC ACT NO.

8371 of 1997

-THE
GOVERNMENT
RECOGNIZED,
PROTECTED AND PROMOTED THE RIGHTS
OF INDIGENOUS CULTURAL COMMUNITIES/
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES,
-CREATED THE NATIONAL COMMISSION ON
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES,
-ESTABLISHED
IMPLEMENTING
MECHANISMS,
-APPROPRIATED FUNDS THEREFOR, AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES .