Executive departments of the Philippines
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Executive departments are the largest component of the executive branch of the government of the Philippines. These departments comprise the largest part of the country's bureaucracy.
Current executive departments
All departments are listed by their present-day name with their English names on top and Filipino names at the other column. Department heads are listed at the Cabinet of the Philippines article.
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Former executive departments
The departments listed below are defunct agencies which have been abolished, integrated, reorganized or renamed into the existing executive departments of the Philippines.
First Republic
- Department of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce
- Department of Communications and Public Works
- Department of the Interior
- Department of Foreign Relations
- Department of Public Education
- Department of Wars and Marine
- Department of Finance
- Department of Justice
Commonwealth Period
- Department of Agriculture and Commerce
- Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources
- Department of Commerce and Police
- Department of Health and Public Welfare
- Department of Finance and Justice
- Department of Instruction
- Department of Labor
- Department of National Defense
- Department of Public Instruction
Third Republic
- Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources
- Department of Commerce and Industry
- Department of General Services
- Department of Social Welfare
Martial law era (Fourth Republic)
- Ministry of Agriculture and Food
- Ministry of Education and Culture
- Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports
- Ministry of Human Settlements
- Ministry of Industry
- Ministry of Labor
- Ministry of Local Government and Community Development
- Ministry of National Defense
- Ministry of Natural Resources
- Ministry of Public Highways
- Ministry of Public Information
- Ministry of Public Works, Transportation and Communications
- Ministry of Social Services and Development
- Ministry of Trade and Tourism
- Ministry of Youth and Sports Development
Fifth Republic
- Department of Education, Culture and Sports
- Department of Environment, Energy and Natural Resources
- Department of Land Reform
- Department of Transportation and Communications
Agencies elevated to department rank
- Budget Commission → Ministry of Budget and Management (1978)
- National Science and Technology Authority → Department of Science and Technology (1987)
- Office of Energy Affairs → Department of Energy (1992)
- Office of Information and Communications Technology → Department of Information and Communications Technology (2016)
- Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council → Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (2019)
- Philippine Overseas Employment Administration → Department of Migrant Workers (2021)
- National Economic and Development Authority → Department of Economy, Planning, and Development (2025)
Proposed executive departments
- Department of Disaster Resilience[2][3]
- Department of Sports[4]
- Department of Culture[5] or Department of Arts and Culture[6]
- Department of Technical Education and Skills Development[7]
- Department of Water Resources[8]
- Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, proposed by Senator Francis Pangilinan[9] and then-House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano.[10]
See also
- Cabinet of the Philippines – the heads of the executive departments of the Philippines
- List of Cabinets of the Philippines
References
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External links
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