December 17, 2018
Dear Aireen Dioso,
Greetings!
Thank you for your request dated Oct 04, 2018 05:08:14 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.
Your Request
You asked for the undersigned's Travel Expenses.
Response to Request
Your FOI request is approved. Information on travel is available in the Philippine Information Agency website which is accessible to the public at any time. However, in relation to expenses, these are submitted to the Commission on Audit (COA) on a regular basis. Should you require copies of the liquidation and expenses report, you might need to contact COA directly.
As to benefits of these travels to government, this shows the hands-on involvement of the head of agency to all organizational, administrative, planning, and programmatic functions of PIA. At its current set up, there are no middle managers in PIA. Working directly under the supervision of the Director-General are permanent personnel holding Division Chief level positions and functioning as regional heads and central office chiefs. It is necessary for a working head to oversee the work of the whole organization.
In the case of Iligan City, Marawi, and Lanao del Sur, these travels are necessary because of my role as Head of the Information Management and Strategic Communications Support Group of the Task Force Bangon Marawi (TFBM), as designated by Secretary Martin Andanar and TFBM Chairperson Eduardo del Rosario. I oversee the work of personnel in Iligan and Marawi and attend to relevant meetings with TFBM, national government agencies, and local government units.
Your right to request a review
If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to the undersigned at
[email protected] and copying our FOI Officer, Ms. Liberty Aragones at
[email protected].
Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request.
If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011).
Thank you.
Harold Clavite
