Fidel Ramos was the 12th President of the Philippines. During his administration, he addressed the country's energy crisis by creating a Department of Energy and granting emergency powers to issue licenses for independent power producers to build power plants. He also made progress on peace agreements and the implementation of agrarian reform. Ramos supported laws improving benefits for senior citizens, strengthening legal protections against rape and domestic violence, and promoting greater economic opportunities for women.

2. • 12th president of the
Philippines.
• Former chief-of-staff of
AFP during administration of
Cory Aquino.
• Become well-known when
he breakaway the
administration of Marcos
during EDSA revolution.

3. PHILIPPINES 2000 Five Point Program
~ Peace & Stability
~ Economic Growth & Sustainable
Development
~ Energy & Power Generation
~ Environmental Protection
~ Streamlined Bureaucracy

4. The Philippines then was experiencing widespread blackouts due to huge
demand for electricity and antiquity of power plants, the abolishment of the
Department of Energy and discontinuation of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant
during the Aquino administration. During his State of the Nation address on July
27, 1992, he requested that the Congress enact a law that would create an
Energy Department that would plan and manage the Philippines' energy
demands. Congress not only created an Energy Department but gave him
special emergency powers to resolve the power crisis. Using the powers given
to him, Ramos issued licenses to independent power producers (IPP) to
construct power plants within 24 months. Ramos issued supply contracts that
guaranteed the government would buy whatever power the IPPs produced
under the contract in U.S. dollars to entice investments in power plants.

5.  Institutionalized through R.A. 8425.
Addressed the long-standing problem of poverty: jobs
and livelihood, health, education and skills training,
housing, environmental protection, children, the youth,
the elderly and the handicapped, agrarian reform and
access to equal opportunity.

6. Ramos a military general himself, made peace with
rebel panels, specifically Moro National Liberation
Front headed by Nur Misuari. They signed the peace
agreement in 1996.

7. President Fidel V. Ramos speeded the implementation of
the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program(CARP) of
former President Corazon Aquino in order to meet the
ten-year time frame.
One major problem that the Ramos administration faced
was the lack of funds to support and implement the
program. The Php50 million, alloted by R.A. No. 6657 to
finance the CARP from 1988 to 1998, was no longer
sufficient to support the program. To address this
problem, Ramos signed R.A. No. 8532 to amend the
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL) which
further strengthened the CARP by extending the program
to another ten years. Ramos signed this law on February
23, 1998 - a few months before the end of Ramos' term.

8.  The Ramos government supported and signed into law
the RA 7432, RA 8353, RA 8369 and Women In Nation
Building Law.

9. Republic Act 7432
• This law grants special privileges to senior
citizens.

10. Republic Act 8353 or The Anti-Rape Law of 1997
• This law reclassified rape from private offense to public
offense such that it was no longer a crime againts
chasity, but a crime against a person.

11. Republic Act 8369 or Family Courts Act of 1997
• This law is mandated to established courts to
handle cases of domestic violence and women's
desks in the police agencies to attend to women
victims of violence.

12. the Women In Nation Building Law or RA 7192
• It gives women equal economic opportunities in
national development efforts, budget for gender and
development in government agencies.