Republic Act No. 8425 institutionalizing the Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Programme.

This Act, consisting of 22 sections divided into 3 Titles, institutionalizes the Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Programme, known as the "Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Act" and creates for this purpose the National Anti-Poverty Commission (specifying its composition, duties and responsibilities). It is the policy of the State to: adopt an area-based, sectoral and focused intervention to poverty alleviation wherein every poor Filipino family shall be empowered to meet its minimum basic needs of health, food and nutrition, water and environmental sanitation, income security, shelter and decent housing, peace and order, education and functional literacy, participation in governance, and family care and psycho-social integrity; actively pursue asset reform or redistribution of productive economic resources to the basic sectors including the adoption of a system of public spending which is targeted towards the poor; institutionalize and enhance the Social Reform Agenda (SRA), which embodies the results of the series of consultations and summits on poverty alleviation.
The SRA shall focus on the following sectors: fight against poverty through a multi-dimensional and cross-sectoral approach which recognizes and respects the core values, cultural integrity, and spiritual diversity of target sectors and communities; pursue a gender-responsive approach to fight poverty; promote ecological balance in the different ecosystems, in a way that gives the basic sectors a major stake in the use, management, conservation and protection of productive resources; take into account the principle and interrelationship of population and development in the planning and implementation of social reform programmes; specific flagship programmes and beneficiaries: farmers and landless rural workers – agricultural development; fisherfolk – fisheries and aquatic resources conservation, management and development; indigenous peoples and indigenous communities – respect, protection and management of the ancestral domains; workers in the informal sector – workers' welfare and protection; urban poors – socialized housing; and members of other disadvantaged groups such as women, children, youth, persons with disabilities, the elderly, and victims of natural and man-made calamities.