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August 06, 1953

No: The Agreement entered into force, August 1953.

Reference: This Agreement is also published in II DFA TS No. 2, p. 58.

The United Nations (hereinafter called "the Organization") and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (hereinafter called "the Government"), acting pursuant to the Basic Agreement for the Provision of Technical Assistance signed on the fifth day of April 1951 between the Organization represented on the Technical Assistance Board and the Government (hereinafter called "the Basic Agreement"), have agreed as follows:

ARTICLE I

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO BE PROVIDED

1. The Organization has agreed to provide to the Government, subject to the provisions of the Basic Agreement, the services of an expert in child welfare, for a period not to exceed three months.

2. In the performance of her duties the expert shall work in close consultation and full cooperation with the competent agencies and officials of the Government and with any associated authorities charged with development projects in the country. She will keep the Organization informed of the progress of her work and of development plans contemplated or undertaken and technical assistance activities pursued in the country within her field.

ARTICLE II

The Government designates the Social Welfare Administration as the central coordinating agency with which the Organization shall deal in connection with the technical assistance referred to in this Supplementary Agreement.

ARTICLE III

Administrative and Financial Obligations of the Parties

1. The Organization shall assume all financial obligations defined in paragraph (a) of Article: III of the Basic Agreement.

2. The Government shall, under the provisions of paragraphs (b) and (e) of Article III of the Basic Agreement, provide the following:

a) while the expert is in the Philippines, either lodging in kind, or a daily lodging allowance in cash equal to forty per cent (40%) of the full subsistence rate set for the country by the Technical Assistance Board. The subsistence rate being, at the time of signing this Agreement, twenty-eight (28) pesos per day, the Government's share amounts to 11.20 pesos per day;

b) medical care and hospitalization of the expert;

c) an appropriate office with facilities, supplies, equipment and other materials needed by the expert for her work as well as postal, telegraph and telephone communications;

d) such technical and secretarial help as the expert, may need;

e) transportation in respect of any official travel which the expert, in rendering the technical assistance requested by the Government, may undertake within the country;

f) for days of official travel away from her normal duty station, a travel allowance of 28 pesos per day, which travel allowance is to be reduced by 40 per cent, that is 11.20 pesos, for each day for which lodging is provided in kind at the place or places visited by her, and to be reduced by 40 per cent, that is 11.20 pesos, for each day for which board is provided in kind at such place or places. For such days of official travel during which the expert is not in a position to give up her living quarters at her normal duty station, she shall, in addition, receive the lodging allowance or the lodging in kind mentioned in (a) above.

3. It is understood that the provisions of paragraph 2 (a) and (f) above are based on decisions of the Technical Assistance Board. Should the Board, while the expert is on mission in the country, change these decisions, the Government shall, upon receiving due notification from the Organization, apply those provisions with the corresponding changes.

4. The Government shall, in accordance with paragraph (c) of Article III of the Basic Agreement, establish a local currency fund for the defraying of local currency expenses under the requirements of this Supplementary Agreement. An amount of one thousand five hundred pesos shall be deposited for operation by the Resident Technical Assistance Representative, this being the estimated requirement for the project.

ARTICLE IV

1. This Supplementary Agreements shall govern the technical assistance referred to therein.

2. This Supplementary Agreement may be modified by agreement between the Organization and the Government in accordance with Article VI of the Basic Agreement. It may be terminated by either party upon written notice to the other, in which case it shall terminate sixty days after receipt of such notice.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, duly authorized representatives of the Organization and the Government, respectively, have on behalf of the Parties signed this Supplementary Agreement No. 18 at Manila, Philippines, this 6th day of August 1953, in the English language in four copies.

For the United Nations:

(Sgd.) J. P. B. ROSS
Acting Resident Technical Assistance Representative

For the Government of the Republic of the Philippines:

(Sgd.) ASUNCION PEREZ
Social Welfare Administrator