PWI Communications and Development Officer Immanuel A. Magalit spend several days in pine-clad Baguio City in the first week of August to demonstrate a new training design for training CSO Procurement Observers. What was new about it? It was tailor-made for training the indigenous peoples (IPs) of Northern Luzon.

Organized by Dr Francisco Magno, Director of the LSIG, and facilitated by the able Mr Ramon Padilla, the three-day activity was a resounding success. The participants, drawn from the Northern Luzon Citizens for Good Governance, appreciated the customized training design, to which they had contributed much of their wisdom during meetings held in June. They also appreciated the work of Mr Warren Serrano, who demonstrated a customized training design on the LGU Budget Watch, and of Ms Divina Luz Lopez, whose customized training design was on LGU Planning and Monitoring and Evaluation.