MOU SIGNING. Dagupan City Mayor Benjamin Lim(3rd from right) and Ms. Laura Coughlyn(3rd from left), mission disaster relief officer of the United States Assistance for International Development(USAID) in the Philippines, led in the signing of a memorandum of understanding(MOU) during last Tuesday's(7 March) project orientation and workshop of the Program for Hydro-Meteorological Risk Mitigation in Secondary Cities in the Philippines(PROMISE-Philippines) at the Dagupan City Museum. Also signing the memorandum are(from left) Lawyer Gil Fernando Cruz, executive director of League of Cities of the Philippines(LCP); Eufemia Castro-Andaya, president of the Center for Disaster Preparedness(CDC) Foundation; Edgar Nigel Lontoc, regional director of the Office of the Civil Defense(OCD) in region I; and Dagupan City vice mayor Alvin Fernandez.CESAR S. RAMIREZ