To: Bureau Directors
Regional Directors
Schools Superintendents

1. DECS Orders Nos. 6, s. 1993 and 82, s. 1994 on Full- Time NFE District Coordinators spell out the need to effectively implement, nonformal education to attain basic and functional literacy rates of 98% and 85%, respectively, by the year 2000.
2. A new mechanism that will fasttrack literacy development with a policy shift from central-based to community- based inter-agency program implementation is the Literacy Service Contracting Scheme (Please refer to DECS Memorandum No. 54, s. 1996).
3. Responding to the urgent need to maximize implementation of the above, it is hereby ordered that designated District NFE Coordinators be full time and free from academic load.
4. This reiteration comes with the reports that there are NFE district coordinators who are not freed from their teaching loads.
5. Regional offices, through the NFE divisions are requested to submit a list of district NFE coordinators based on individual designation orders by the directors/superintendents.
6. Immediate and wide dissemination of this Order is expected.

References:
DECS Orders: (Nos. 6, s. 1993 and 82, s. 1994)
DECS Memorandum: (No. 54, s. 1996)
Allotment: 1-2—(M.O. 1-87)

To be indicated in the Perpetual Index under the following subjects:
LISTS
NONFORMAL EDUCATION
TEACHERS

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