The Philippine Quality Award Program or PQA is the national quality award for Total Quality Management (TQM) in the Philippines.
[1][2] The Philippine Quality Award is the centerpiece program of the National Action Agenda for Productivity, the blueprint for the Philippines integrated approach to improve economy-wide productivity during the term of President Fidel V. Ramos in response to the growing challenges of globalization.
It was created through Executive Order 448 on October 3, 1997.
It was institutionalized on February 28, 2001, through the signing of Republic Act 9013, also known as the Philippine Quality Award Act.
These are the three objectives of PQA:[3]