On November 28, 2011, the DBM issued a circular

entitled the Guidelines on the Review of MFOs

and Performance Indicators (PIs) and Restructuring
of Programs, Activities and Projects (PAPs).

The circular aims to restructure in order to have a
common methodology to be applied to Major Final
Outputs (MFOs) and Performance Indicators (PIs) and
Programs, Activities & Projects (PAPs). Also, to develop
standards for Organizational Performance Indicators
Framework (OPIF) throughout the government
bureaucracy.
The OPIF is a result-based budgeting system which serve as
basis for allocating the budget and monitoring, reporting and
evaluation of the department/agency performance.
As the basic element of OPIF, MFO must represent the core
mandated functions of the department/agency.
MFO are the goods or services that a department/agency is
mandated to deliver to external clients; PAPs are the activities
undertaken to produce, or drive the attainment of MFOs.
Each MFO consist of two sets of Performance Indicators (PIs).
These PIs must be measurable in terms of QUANTITY, QUALITY,
TIMELINESS and COST. These parameters serve as basis for
assessing the department/agencys performance in achieving its
targets.
The rationale of restructuring of PAPS is to establish the link of
the PAPs to the MFOs for better budget cost estimates and
prioritization of expenditures.
Activities that do not fall within the legal mandate of the
agency or not linked to an MFO should be restructured or
should be drop-off.
The 2014 National Planning Conference
aims to formulate the 2015-2016-2017
budget, plans and targets and revalidate
the 2014 plans and targets.
1. Review of fertilizer and pesticide as well as financial and
administrative policies needed in the formulation of our
plans and programs for the CY s 2015-2026-2017
2. Review and update on the technical and legal issues relative
to the enforcement, monitoring and inspection, among
others.
3. Review, formulate and conduct of Gender and Development
Mainstreaming activities of the Department of Agriculture
and FPA in particular;
4. Review and validation of CY 2014 plans and targets relative
to the regional/provincial municipal monitoring and
enforcement activities such as conduct of clean-up drives
and inspection of handlers, warehouses, among others.

1. Common understanding relative to the CY 2014 sets
of Performance Indicators provided by the
Department of Budget and Management (DBM);
2. Craft and polish the CY 2015-2016-2017 plans and
targets for submission to DA and DBM
3. Validate 2014-2015 plans and programs by
regional/provincial/municipal levels.