2016 People’s Budget: See How Much Fund is Allocated for Education

2016 People’s Budget

Key Features of the 2016 National Budget

The National Budget for 2016 aims to support a 7 to 8 percent growth in the economy to reduce the number of poor to 18 to 20 percent of the population.

This Budget affirms the basic premise that economic growth must be shared by all so that everyone can contribute to economic growth, poverty reduction, and society building.

Budget Dimensions

Note: The budgets of the departments described here may differ from those in pages 24 and 25 of the 2016 People’s Budget.pdf (See download link below this post). This table only shows agency-specific budgets, while figures for the Top Ten Departments in the said pages include allocations from or in Special Purpose Funds.

Departments	Budget (in Thousand Pesos)
Congress of the Philippines	13,883,661
Office of the President	2,860,076
Office of the Vice President	503,829
Department of Agrarian Reform	10,386,022
Department of Agriculture	48,942,572
Department of Budget and Management	1,422,613
Department of Education	433,383,160
State Universities and Colleges	49,661,330
Department of Energy	1,865,939
Department of Environment and Natural Resources	22,270,376
Department of Finance	20,219,965
Department of Foreign Affairs	20,777,044
Department of Health	124,954,946
Department of the Interior and Local Government	125,399,335
Department of Justice	13,782,192
Department of Labor and Employment	18,773,305
Department of National Defense	117,733,660
Department of Public Works and Highways	397,108,480
Department of Science and Technology	18,217,101
Department of Social Welfare and Development	110,905,794
Department of Tourism	3,644,611
Department of Trade and Industry	4,301,046
Department of Transportation and Communications	44,298,274
National Economic and Development Authority	5,786,782
Presidential Communications Operations Office	1,245,662
Other Executive Offices	20,453,645
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao	29,412,953
Joint Legislative-Executive Councils	2,883
The Judiciary	26,790,898
Civil Service Commission	1,317,005
Commission on Audit	9,334,560
Commission on Elections	16,155,045
Office of the Ombudsman	2,063,013
Commission on Human Rights	460,026
Department Budgets	1,718,317,803
Special Purpose Funds	1,283,482,197
Grand Total	3,001,800,000