About the DFA 
Organization
The DFA has eleven principal offices. The geographic offices manage political and economic relations in different regions and pursue Philippine interests in multilateral organizations, These include the following: Office of American Affairs; Office of Asia and Pacific Affairs; Office of European Affairs; Office of Middle East and African Affairs; Office of ASEAN Affairs; and the Office of United Nations and International Organizations. The line offices are the following: Office of Personnel and Administrative Services, Office of Legal Affairs, Office of Consular Affairs, and the Office of Protocol and State Visits.
Several undersecretaries assist the Secretary of Foreign Affairs in the formulation of Department policies and objectives and in coordinating and overseeing the operational activities of the DFA. The Undersecretary for Policy directly supervises the geographic offices and the Office while the Undersecretary for Administration handles the functional offices. In line with the three foreign policy pillars, the other Undersecretaries are in charge of migrant workers' affairs, the conduct of international economic relations, and security-related and other special concerns.
Over a thousand DFA personnel are deployed in 26 Offices in the Home Office in Manila, 24 Regional Consular Offices in the entire Philippines, and 94 foreign service posts in Asia, Europe, the Americas, Middle East, and Africa.
