The Commission on Appointments (CA) has confirmed the appointment of Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Wendel Avisado.
Avisado has been Acting Secretary of the agency since August 2019.
The Budget chief was confirmed during the CA’s recent plenary session which was presided over by its chairman Senate President Vicente Sotto III.
Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri sponsored Avisado’s confirmation in the CA Plenary, saying that the Surigao-born Budget chief is “a product of Mindanao.”
Prior to the Plenary Session, Zubiri, who chairs the Committee on Budget and Management in the CA, presided over the hearing of the Committee which gave its consent and recommended to the plenary the confirmation of Avisado’s appointment.
Avisado entered government service in 1986 and went on to occupy various leadership positions at the Department of Interior and Local Government and at the Davao City government as city administrator. He was appointed as Deputy Secretary of the Housing and Urban Development Council in 2010. In 2016, Avisado served as Presidential Assistant for Special Concerns under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.
As Acting Secretary of the DBM, Avisado supported the swift enactment the Salary Standardization Law 5.
In his time as Acting Secretary of the DBM, Avisado supported the swift enactment of the 2020 National Budget and of Republic Act 11466, or the Salary Standardization Law 5.
Zubiri thanked Avisado for providing assistance to the Ministry of Finance, and Budget and Management of the Bangsamoro Autonomous region in Muslim Mindanao (MFBM-BARMM) during the crafting of the first-ever Bangsamoro Expenditure Program.
“Our brothers and sisters in the Bangsamoro are getting the assistance from no less than the national government’s top expert on budgetary matters.”
“I am pleased to know that our brothers and sisters in the Bangsamoro are getting the assistance and support they need from no less than the national government’s top expert on budgetary matters and fiscal management,” the seasoned lawmaker said.