DBM Press Release
EO 126 institutionalizes unified public platform to trace government money from appropriation and fund release to procurement, implementation and completion; agencies accountable for accurate, complete and timely disclosure
Filipinos will be able to follow public money beyond the budget books and deeper into where it actually goes, as President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. institutionalized the DBM COMPASS Portal as the government’s unified digital platform for budget and expenditure disclosures.
Executive Order (EO) No. 126 places the Centralized Open Monitoring Platform for Appropriations and Spending Statistics (COMPASS) at the center of a government-wide transparency system designed to connect information across the national budget cycle—from appropriations and fund releases to procurement, project implementation, and completion.
The reform turns what began as a Department of Budget and Management (DBM) transparency initiative into an institutionalized government mechanism, requiring concerned national government agencies and instrumentalities, including government-owned or -controlled corporations (GOCCs) and government financial institutions (GFIs), to submit, disclose, update, and publish information that may be required through COMPASS.
Each covered agency will be responsible for the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of the information it submits. EO 126 also provides that failure to comply may be grounds for administrative and disciplinary sanctions under existing laws, rules, and regulations.
The President had already laid down the principle behind COMPASS when he launched the platform last June.
“Like a compass that points the way forward, this platform allows our people to see and track where their hard-earned money goes.”
President Marcos likewise stressed that restoring public trust requires government transparency to go beyond compliance on paper.
“Kung nais nating mapanumbalik ang tiwala ng taumbayan, dapat malinaw, bukas, at nakikita ang ating mga ginagawa. Hindi sapat na tama at kumpleto lang tayo sa papel. Kailangan nararamdaman din ang badyet ng taumbayan.”
From budget allocation to actual delivery
DBM Acting Secretary Kim Robert C. De Leon said institutionalizing COMPASS will allow citizens and oversight institutions to see a broader picture of how government resources move and are ultimately translated into programs and projects.
“The President has already signed an Executive Order also institutionalizing the DBM COMPASS. So, very soon, we will be sharing the DBM COMPASS as well to the Office of the Ombudsman so that you will not just only track procurement, but you can even see SAROs, NCAs, NTA releases, and LGSF releases at your fingertips,” Acting Secretary De Leon announced during the ceremonial signing of the Data Sharing Agreement between the Procurement Service-DBM (PS-DBM) and the Office of the Ombudsman on September 29.
“COMPASS will be the central repository where you can get the complete story—from appropriation, allotment, procurement, and project implementation status,” the Budget Chief added.
The EO significantly expands the potential reach of COMPASS beyond budget figures. Covered data include financial and program performance, project implementation and completion status, procurement information, and other transparency-related information generated throughout the national budget cycle.
Programs and projects funded, administered, or implemented through government mechanisms—including public-private partnerships and foreign-assisted programs—may likewise be covered insofar as they utilize, disburse, or account for public funds.
Connecting government’s financial systems
EO 126 also directs COMPASS to be capable of interfacing with existing government systems, including the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS), Budget and Treasury Management System (BTMS), Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS), Digital Information for Monitoring and Evaluation (DIME), and the E-Gov PH App, among other systems identified by the DBM.
This is intended to move government away from fragmented disclosures spread across different agencies and systems toward a unified, interoperable and open public financial data framework, allowing citizens and oversight bodies to connect information across different stages of public spending.
The platform is required to provide timely, reliable, and user-friendly access to government financial and performance information, while adhering to standards on data integrity, authenticity, interoperability, accessibility, traceability, auditability, cybersecurity, and operational resilience.
Accountability built into the system
To ensure that COMPASS becomes an institutional reform rather than merely another government website, EO 126 creates a COMPASS Council, chaired by the DBM, with the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) as co-chairperson and the Department of Finance (DOF) and Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) as members.
The Council is empowered to establish disclosure policies and standards, prescribe accountability and disclosure timelines, monitor agency compliance, recommend appropriate action in cases of non-compliance, and ensure that government transparency mechanisms remain secure and accessible to citizens.
It may also engage representatives from Congress, the Judiciary, Independent Constitutional Commissions, national government agencies, LGUs, civil society organizations, academic and research institutions, the media, and other stakeholders.
Local government units are encouraged to participate, with the DILG directed to urge LGUs to use COMPASS and, where applicable, include disclosure of covered information as a criterion for achieving the Seal of Good Local Governance.
The EO maintains safeguards for information protected by laws on national defense and national security, data privacy, and other applicable restrictions. Where information is lawfully withheld or redacted, however, the concerned agency must publish an exception or redaction log indicating the legal basis, approving authority, and date of the withholding or redaction, while maintaining complete records for authorized oversight and audit purposes.
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FILIPINO VERSION
NEWS MATERIAL
Department of Budget and Management
Ika-30 ng Setyembre 2026
‘FOLLOW EVERY PESO’: PBBM iniutos ang government-wide disclosure ng budget, procurement, at project data sa pamamagitan ng DBM COMPASS
Itinalaga ng EO 126 ang COMPASS bilang unified public platform para masundan ang pondo ng gobyerno mula appropriation at fund release hanggang procurement, implementation, at completion; mga ahensya, accountable sa tama, kumpleto, at napapanahong disclosure
Mas masusundan na ng mga Pilipino kung saan talaga napupunta ang budget ng bayan matapos gawing permanenteng bahagi ng pamahalaan ni Pangulong Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. ang DBM COMPASS Portal bilang unified digital platform ng gobyerno para sa budget at expenditure disclosures.
Sa ilalim ng Executive Order (EO) No. 126, sentro ng isang government-wide transparency system ang COMPASS na mag-uugnay sa impormasyon sa buong national budget cycle.
Sa pamamagitan nito, ang nagsimula bilang transparency initiative ng Department of Budget and Management (DBM) ay magiging isang institutionalized government mechanism. Inaatasan nito ang mga saklaw na national government agencies at instrumentalities, kabilang ang government-owned or -controlled corporations (GOCCs) at government financial institutions (GFIs), na magsumite, mag-disclose, mag-update, at mag-publish ng mga impormasyong maaaring kailanganin sa pamamagitan ng COMPASS.
Pananagutan ng bawat saklaw na ahensya ang accuracy, completeness, at timeliness ng impormasyong kanilang isusumite. Nakasaad din sa EO 126 na ang hindi pagsunod dito ay maaaring maging batayan para sa administrative at disciplinary sanctions alinsunod sa umiiral na mga batas at regulasyon.
Nauna nang inilatag ng Pangulo ang prinsipyong nasa likod ng COMPASS nang ilunsad niya ang platform noong Hunyo.
“Like a compass that points the way forward, this platform allows our people to see and track where their hard-earned money goes.”
Binigyang-diin din ni Pangulong Marcos na upang maibalik ang tiwala ng publiko, kailangang higit pa sa compliance sa papel ang transparency ng gobyerno.
“Kung nais nating mapanumbalik ang tiwala ng taumbayan, dapat malinaw, bukas, at nakikita ang ating mga ginagawa. Hindi sapat na tama at kumpleto lang tayo sa papel. Kailangan nararamdaman din ang badyet ng taumbayan.”
Mula budget allocation hanggang aktwal na delivery
Sinabi ni DBM Acting Secretary Kim Robert C. De Leon na sa pamamagitan ng institutionalization ng COMPASS, mas makikita ng mga mamamayan at oversight institutions ang kabuuang daloy ng government resources at kung paano ito naisasalin sa mga programa at proyekto.
“The President has already signed an Executive Order also institutionalizing the DBM COMPASS. So, very soon, we will be sharing the DBM COMPASS as well to the Office of the Ombudsman so that you will not just only track procurement, but you can even see SAROs, NCAs, NTA releases, and LGSF releases at your fingertips,” anunsyo ni Acting Secretary De Leon sa naganap na ceremonial signing ng Data Sharing Agreement sa pagitan ng Procurement Service-DBM (PS-DBM) at Office of the Ombudsman noong ika-29 ng Setyembre.
“COMPASS will be the central repository where you can get the complete story—from appropriation, allotment, procurement, and project implementation status,” dagdag ng Budget Chief.
Pinalalawak din ng EO ang saklaw ng COMPASS bukod sa mga budget figures. Kabilang sa maaaring i-disclose ang financial at program performance, project implementation at completion status, procurement information, at iba pang transparency-related information na nabubuo sa iba’t ibang yugto ng national budget cycle.
Maaari ring masaklaw ang mga programa at proyektong pinopondohan, pinangangasiwaan, o ipinapatupad sa pamamagitan ng government mechanisms—kabilang ang public-private partnerships at foreign-assisted programs—kung gumagamit, nagdi-disburse, o nag-a-account ang mga ito ng public funds.
Pag-uugnay sa financial systems ng gobyerno
Inaatasan din ng EO 126 ang COMPASS na magkaroon ng kakayahang makipag-interface sa mga umiiral na government systems, kabilang ang Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS), Budget and Treasury Management System (BTMS), Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS), Digital Information for Monitoring and Evaluation (DIME), at E-Gov PH App, bukod sa iba pang systems na maaaring tukuyin ng DBM.
Layunin nitong ilayo ang gobyerno sa pira-pirasong disclosures na nakakalat sa iba’t ibang ahensya at systems upang bumuo ng isang unified, interoperable, at open public financial data framework. Sa ganitong paraan, mas madaling maiuugnay ng mga mamamayan at oversight bodies ang impormasyon mula sa iba’t ibang yugto ng paggastos ng gobyerno.
Inaatasan ang platform na magbigay ng timely, reliable, at user-friendly access sa government financial at performance information, habang sumusunod sa mga pamantayan sa data integrity, authenticity, interoperability, accessibility, traceability, auditability, cybersecurity, at operational resilience.
Accountability, nakapaloob mismo sa sistema
Upang matiyak na magiging isang pangmatagalang institutional reform ang COMPASS, lumilikha ang EO 126 ng COMPASS Council na pamumunuan ng DBM, katuwang bilang co-chairperson ang Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT). Miyembro rin ng Council ang Department of Finance (DOF) at Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG).
May kapangyarihan ang Council na magtakda ng disclosure policies at standards, magtakda ng accountability at disclosure timelines, bantayan ang compliance ng mga ahensya, magrekomenda ng kaukulang aksyon sa mga kaso ng non-compliance, at tiyaking nananatiling secure at accessible sa mga mamamayan ang government transparency mechanisms.
Maaari rin itong makipag-ugnayan sa mga kinatawan mula sa Congress, Judiciary, Independent Constitutional Commissions, national government agencies, LGUs, civil society organizations, academic at research institutions, media, at iba pang stakeholders.
Hinihikayat naman ang local government units na makilahok. Inaatasan ang DILG na hikayatin ang mga LGU na gamitin ang COMPASS at, kung naaangkop, isama ang disclosure ng covered information bilang isa sa mga criteria para makamit ang Seal of Good Local Governance.
Pinananatili ng EO ang safeguards para sa impormasyong protektado ng mga batas kaugnay ng national defense at national security, data privacy, at iba pang applicable restrictions. Gayunman, kapag may impormasyong legal na withheld o redacted, kailangang mag-publish ang concerned agency ng exception o redaction log na nagsasaad ng legal basis, approving authority, at petsa ng withholding o redaction, habang pinananatili ang kumpletong records para sa authorized oversight at audit purposes.
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