Philippines Humanitarian Bulletin Issue 1 | 1 - 30 January 2015

HIGHLIGHTS

• 20,000 people still remain in transitional shelters in Zamboanga – a 14 per cent decline in the last three months.

• 19 tropical storms affected the Philippines in 2014; the storm season was less active than the previous year.

• The Government focuses on disaster preparedness, calling for a “whole-of-society approach”.

• Evacuation orders lifted as the Mayon Volcano alert level is lowered.

• The Government invests in long-term solutions to resettle those regularly exposed to the threat of volcano eruption.

FIGURES

Zamboanga Crisis

• number of IDPs in evacuation centres 7,335

• number of IDPs in transitional sites 12,576