Volunteers trained on geo-tagging to boost anti-poverty projects transparency

THE Department of Agriculture has partnered with various civil society organizations (CSOs) in a bid to boost government transparency in implementing and monitoring projects under the Philippine Rural Development Project (DA-PRDP), which is aimed at alleviating poverty in the country’s rural areas.

As part of the initiative, representatives from the World Bank, CSOs, and PRDP conducted a participatory visit in one of the PRDP’s pilot provinces, Oriental Mindoro. Along with this, training on geo-tagging was also conducted to equip the volunteers with the basic knowledge on monitoring using the tool.