Duterte creates office for adviser on streamlining gov’t processes to cut red tape

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MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the creation of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Streamlining Government Processes (OPASGP) in a bid to cut red tape.

Duterte signed on Tuesday Executive Order No. 129, giving the presidential adviser on streamlining government processes authority to recommend policies, strategies, programs, and measures to cut red tape as well as review existing government systems and processes to ensure simplified structures and methods to avoid lengthy bureaucratic paperwork that is considered prone to corruption.

This order comesfour months after Duterte appointed former Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco Jr. as presidenti…

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