Socioeconomic Planning Secretary ROMULO L. NERI (second from left, seated) signs the documents, called Country Programme Action Plans (CPAPs), of three UN agencies—United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), which were developed with the Philippine Government. The CPAPs, worth about US$125 million, aim to empower the country’s poorest and most vulnerable, improve the reproductive health status of the Filipino people, and reduce the disparities in child well-being indicators in 24 priority provinces and cities by at least 50 percent. With Sec. Neri are other signatories (from left): Dr. NICOLAS K. ALIPUI, Philippine Country Office Representative, UNICEF; Ms. DEBORAH LANDEY, Resident Representative, UNDP; and Dr. ZAHIDUL A. HUQUE, Country Representative, UNFPA.