MISSION
To promote Presidential legislative initiatives and other priority policy reforms responsive to the achievement of the Philippine Development Plan 2023-2028 and the realization of the President’s objectives for people-centered growth and prosperity.
VISION
A highly competent, efficient, and strategic arm of the Office of the President that proactively bridges the Executive and Legislative Branches of government in shepherding the President’s Legislative Priorities and other policy reform agenda towards becoming a model among democratic governments.
MANDATE
Promotion of Presidential legislative initiatives and other Administration-sponsored priority policy reforms and development programs through a strategic information dissemination campaign and sustained day-to-day collaboration with the two Chambers of Congress as well as with other interest groups.
CORE VALUES
In pursuit of the PLLO's Vision and Mission, we commit to anchor and conform our actions in accordance with the following core values:
a. Service Excellence
We push ourselves to provide high quality service in shepherding the passage of legislative measures, taking on every opportunity as a chance to improve ourselves in order to meet international standards and realize our ideals for excellence.
b. Integrity
We uphold honesty and accountability in all aspects of our work to always maintain our moral integrity and our dignity as respectable public servants as we promote Presidential legislative initiatives and measures.
c. Good Governance
We hold ourselves accountable and maintain transparency in all our actions in delivering services for strengthened executive-legislative relations while making the best use of our resources, and ultimately be responsive to the needs of our nation and the society as a whole while adhering to the rule of the law.
CORE FUNCTIONS
The PLLO advocates for all internal and external support in shepherding the President’s legislative agenda, Administration-sponsored policy interests, and all other legislative-related concerns of the Executive branch.
In line with its mandate, a number of periodic and strategic activities are designed, organized, spearheaded, and/or sponsored by PLLO. These, among others, are essential in the promotion of legislative initiatives, consolidation and facilitation of political support among various interest groups, and management of the President’s day-to-day relations with Congress.
As PLLO strives to promote significant legislative initiatives, priority policy reforms and development programs, it commits to orchestrate activities relative to the formulation, promotion, and completion of legislative agenda in partnership with the relevant and appropriate government and non-governmental entities.
1. Provision of Policy Advisory to the President of Legislative Concerns
The Head of the PLLO, as concurrent Presidential Legislative Adviser (PLA), is the alter-ego of the President relative to legislative and other congressional-related concerns. This mandates him to provide day-to-day information on situations in both Chambers of Congress as well as intelligence assistance affecting policies of government in order to ensure executive-legislative support on policies and programs of Governance of the President and consolidation of executive and/or presidential response to emerging issues. These tasks also require the PLA to provide inputs to the formulation of the President’s and Cabinet Clusters’ Legislative Priorities and the LEDAC Common Legislative Agenda (CLA) in terms of congressional/political acceptability.
2. Promotion of Presidential Legislative Initiatives
The PLLO handles all tasks that are aligned with the promotion of the President’s legislative agenda. These tasks span from providing guidance in the development of bills, facilitating consultations among concerned agencies to reach consensus or a common Administration position on proposed measures, supervising legal research and legislative/policy analyses, handling conflict resolutions, design, and employment of appropriate interventions to ensure congressional passage of priority legislative measures until their enactment into law. These require the PLLO to regularly monitor the progress of all bills in various stages of the legislative mill and other congressional initiatives that may impinge on the Presidency and the Administration. It also involves sensible review of existing government policies and programs, in a conscious effort to identify major developments in Congress affecting the same and undertake judicious assessment of their impact on the overall policy direction and governance approach of the Administration.
3. Consolidation and Facilitation of Political Support
In line with its mandate and in support of the effective implementation of advocacy strategies and interventions, PLLO undertakes activities geared towards building a strong and reliable network of support from actors within the legislative system, the bureaucracy, and the whole political environment. Primarily, the PLLO endeavors to sustain enhanced collaboration and partnership of the President and the whole Executive Branch with the Legislative Branch of Government at the institutional level as well as with the individual members of Congress to ensure active support to the Administration’s Program of Governance
Likewise, the PLLO accordingly interfaces with all government entities through members of the Legislative Liaison System (LLS) to ensure consistency of the legislative agenda vis-à-vis existing programs and projects of the national government as well as in the provision of technical and logistical support in the PLLO’s advocacy efforts.
Further, the PLLO pursues constructive engagement with other stakeholders to positively influence the reform constituencies (CSOs, NGOs, other organized groups, and allies) to participate in the legislative process and to transform such influence to rally support behind the President’s legislative agenda and development programs/projects from the national level down to the grassroots level.
4. Management of the President’s Day-to-Day Relations with Congress
In most cases, managing the President’s day-to-day business with individual members of Congress can be a demanding and gargantuan task. For PLLO, these Executive-Legislative dynamics are given due importance. As an adviser to the President on all matters relating to legislation and Executive-Legislative relations, PLLO has been at the forefront of laboriously facilitating the conduct of activities of the President requiring congressional participation as well as ensuring that the legislators’ constituency needs are addressed by the various agencies/department of the Executive branch.
OTHER FUNCTIONS
1. Stewardship of the Legislative Liaison System (LLS)
The PLLO is formally regarded as the steward of the LLS which is a conglomeration of legislative liaison officers from various executive offices, including national line agencies, constitutional bodies, commissions, GOCCs, GFIs, and other instrumentalities of the government.
In charge of managing a network of legislative liaison officers, the PLLO orchestrates collaborative activities with Congress aimed at forming a stronger Executive-Legislative tactical alliance. In pursuit of this, the PLLO provides the members of the LLS assistance on how to navigate through and intervene in the legislative process in order to promote and advance their respective policy requirements, legislative agenda and other related matters.
2. Provision of Technical Support to the LEDAC and other Advisory Bodies
The PLLO provides technical advice to the LEDAC particularly in the formulation and shepherding of the shared policy reform priorities of the two branches of government under a Common Legislative Agenda (CLA). The PLLO regularly coordinates with the LEDAC Secretariat and assists its periodic meetings whenever requested.
The PLLO also maintains active participation in Executive policy-making bodies such as the various Cabinet Clusters.
3. Capacity-Building on Legislative Advocacy Work
The PLLO also conducts bureaucracy-wide Capacity-Building Seminars for members of the LLS as well as other interest groups on various aspects of legislative advocacy. This is intended to provide participants with the necessary knowledge and tools that are important in their work as legislative liaison of their respective departments/agencies to Congress. Likewise, the PLLO undertakes cluster-level and agency/department-level capability seminars. Capacity-building is also effected through one-on-one consultations of individual advocates from all sectors with officials of the PLLO.