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PASIG CITY, 7 August 2024 – To ensure effective and efficient delivery of basic education services at all governance levels, Education Secretary Sonny Angara has directed offices in the Department to fill all vacant positions.

In DepEd Memorandum No. 42, s. 2024, DepEd Bureau and Service Directors in the Central Office, Regional Directors (RDs), and Schools Division Superintendents (SDSs) are instructed to exhaust all measures to expedite the hiring and filling up of all vacant DepEd-authorized positions, including the newly created teaching and school-based non-teaching positions for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024.

Based on the Department of Budget and Management-Government Manpower Information System (DBM-GMIS) as of May 2024, DepEd has 46,703 (4.53%) vacant positions out of 1,030,897 total authorized positions, which can be attributed to several reasons based on gathered reports.

The identified remaining vacant items pose a challenge to the operations of offices and the absorptive capacity of DepEd.

Further, DepEd directs all field offices to accomplish a catch-up plan, which can be downloaded through the link: bit.ly/UnfilledCatchUpPlan. The completed catch-up plan must be submitted to the Bureau of Human Resource and Organizational Development-Personnel Division (BHROD-PD) through the link: bit.ly/HiringCatchUpPlan on or before August 9, 2024.

Moreover, all DepEd offices are instructed to timely update the Personal Services Itemization and Plantilla of Personnel and the DBM-GMIS database. Other monitoring tools, such as the Program Management Information System, Quick Count for FY 2024 items, and the Deployment Monitoring Tool for school-based non-teaching items shall likewise be updated.

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