President Marcos has formed an inter-agency coordinating council to create a comprehensive master list of state-owned lands to ensure their effective use and allocation and establish livable communities.

Marcos said this in the four-page Administrative Order (AO) No. 21 signed by Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin on April 30.

In his AO, the President said the consolidation of a master list of all government lands would boost the administration’s Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2023-2028.

One of the key strategies identified in the PDP 2023-2028 to establish liveable communities "is the creation of a database containing a complete inventory of idle government lands."

"To ensure the efficient and effective allocation and utilization of land resources for the country’s national development goals, it is necessary to consolidate a comprehensive list of all government lands," Marcos said.

With this, President Marcos created an Inter-Agency Coordinating Council to create a “Master List” of all government lands and transmit a digital copy to him within 180 days after they created the AO's implementing guidelines.

Meanwhile, all national government agencies, instrumentalities, and bodies whose function is related to land identification and inventory are required to submit an inventory to the Inter-Agency Coordinating Council.

The body will be headed by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) as co-chairs. The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) will act as the vice-chair.

The other members of the Coordinating Council are:

• Office of the Executive Secretary
• Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG)
• Department of Agriculture (DA)
• Office of the Solicitor General (OSG)
• Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Land Registration Authority (LRA)
• Commission on Higher Education (CHED)
• Department of Information and Communications (DICT)

The DENR-Land Management Bureau (LMB) will be the body's secretariat.