In line with efforts to further improve and streamline the administrative functions of Santiago PE, Consul Dennis Briones and Assistant AO Josefina Abenoja participated in the first-ever  Virtual DFA Global Conference of Administrative Officers attended by more than 100 Philippine Foreign Service Posts (FSPs) and DFA offices in Manila on 15 February 2021. The Conference was organized as a retooling activity to develop and expand the competencies of administrative officers in all DFA FSPs and Home Office units, and to ensure completion of the DFA's collective P/A/Ps  this year and onward while ensuring the safety and physical as well as mental well-being of all its personnel amid the COVID-19 pandemic.