On 21 March 2007, the DEEM tool and results were presented to an audience of CSOs and international funding agencies at the Clermont Room of the Discovery Suites. On 23 March a similar presentation was given to officials of the Department of Health and of the Jose R. Reyes Memorial Medical Center, the pilot agency for testing the DEEM tool, at the DOH compound along Rizal Avenue. Both presentations gave rise to some lively discussion.

The findings presented by PWI were so surprising, that most parties felt that a round of data revalidation was called for. So PWI researchers have been doing some extra work in the past month or so. The Asia Foundation, which is funding the project, graciously allowed a time extension.

In the meantime, the last orientation workshop of the Feedback and Complaint Handling Mechanism project, scheduled for late March in Cagayan de Oro, was postponed due to a new paper requirement of the USAID that PWI found difficult to comply with quickly. A new date will be set for the workshop.