Dir. Arnel B. Garcia of DSWD Field Office V together with Mayor Jeanette R. Bernaldez of Bato, Camarines Sur during the inauguration of concrete pathway in Brgy. Agos last April 3, 2014. This was implemented through the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS), one of the poverty-reduction projects of DSWD which strongly advocates the involvement of local communities in the design and implementation of development projects to address the issues of poverty in rural areas. Kalahi-CIDSS aims to improve local governance by employing the participation of the people in the communities in the development process with the multi-stakeholder partnership of ordinary residents, community volunteers and local officials from the barangay and municipal level.

Kalahi-CIDSS Subproject: Construction/ Concreting of Pathway
Location: Brgy. Agos, Bato, Camarines Sur
Total Project Cost: 893,356.80
Kalahi-CIDSS Grant funded by Millennium Challenge Corporation: 625,349.76
Local Counterpart Contribution (LCC) from LGU Bato: 178,671.36
LCC from the BLGU: 89,335.68