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List of initialisms, acronyms ("a word made from parts of the full name's words, pronounceable"), and other abbreviations used by the government and the military of the Philippines. Note that this list is intended to be specific to the Philippine government and military—other nations will have their own acronyms.
The Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System [1] (Tagalog: Pangasiwaan ng Tubig at Alkantarilya sa Kalakhang Maynila), [5] formerly known as the National Waterworks and Sewerage System Authority (NAWASA), is the government agency that is in charge of water privatization in Metro Manila and nearby provinces of Cavite and Rizal in the Philippines.
The departments listed below are defunct agencies which have been abolished, integrated, reorganized or renamed into the existing executive departments of the Philippines. First Republic [ edit ]
The Department of Public Works and Highways (Filipino: Kagawaran ng mga Pagawain at Lansangang Bayan), abbreviated as DPWH, is the executive department of the Philippine government solely vested with the mandate to “be the State's engineering and construction arm” and, as such, “tasked to carry out the policy” of the State to “maintain an engineering and construction arm and ...
Acosta-Sison in 1909. She was born in Calasiao, Pangasinan in the Philippines and graduated from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1909. [1] [2] [3] In 1910 she married the director of the Philippine General Hospital of Manila, where she first worked as assistant in obstetrics. [1]
When the Japanese occupied the Philippines, they dissolved the National Government and replaced it with the Central Administrative Organization of the Japanese Army. Health was relegated to the Department of Education, Health and Public Welfare under Commissioner Claro M. Recto. In 1944, President Manuel Roxas signed Executive Order (E.O.) No ...
What Does FWB Mean? FWB is an acronym for “friends with benefits.” The term was probably first said in Alanis Morissette’s song “Head Over Feet,” in which she sings, “You’re my best ...
The Philippines' Department of Social Welfare and Development (abbreviated as DSWD) is the executive department of the Philippine Government responsible for the protection of the social welfare of rights of Filipinos and to promote social development.