PAGASA was invited to attend a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) on the Revenue Admin. Reform Project (RARP), a study of the Millennium Challenge Account-Phils. (a U.S. -funded project) to improve effectiveness of tax administration and indirectly, to enable government to raise additional revenues to support the country’s development projects and effort to fight poverty.  This was held on 17 Sept. 2013 and handled by the Social Weather Station as commissioned by the BIR at the Philippine Social Services Center of the University of the Philippines.