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In Numbers
- US$8.17 million six-month (January – June 2025) net funding requirements
- 59,500 people reached with government family food packs through WFP’s transport support in December
- 112,404 people directly reached in December 2024
Operational Updates
Disaster Risk Management (DRM)
• WFP continued to augment the Government-led response to consecutive typhoons that struck northern Philippines from late October to mid-November.
o Cash assistance: WFP and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) have provided cash assistance to 21,830 families (109,150 people) with children under 5 in Albay, Aurora, Cagayan, and Camarines Sur provinces.
These families are enrolled in the 4Ps: Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Programme, a government social protection programme. WFP also started distributing cash in Catanduanes (Bicol).1
o Assessments and monitoring: Cash distribution monitoring in Camarines Sur, Cagayan, and Aurora provinces indicated that most respondents i) were able to withdraw the money within 15 minutes and ii) plan to use the cash assistance for food, education, non-food items (e.g., hygiene and kitchen kits and water containers), shelter repair, and health expenses. The cash modality was guided by rapid damage assessments conducted by DSWD and WFP after severe tropical storm Kristine (international name: Trami) and other typhoons.
o Logistics: WFP deployed 8 trucks to deliver 11,900 DSWD family food packs (FFPs) and a mobile storage unit (MSU) to Albay and Catanduanes. Since the onset of the typhoons, the Government has reached 1.6 million people through 200 WFP-deployed trucks that delivered 317,800 FFPs, three MSUs, and other relief items. WFP also helped set up MSUs in Bicol to store relief supplies.
o Emergency telecommunications: WFP augmented response operations in Bicol by i) deploying a Government Emergency Communications System-Mobile Operations Vehicle for Emergencies (GECS-MOVE) unit to Catanduanes and ii) donating 18 connectivity assets—routers and satellite communications equipment—to the Department of Information and Communications Technology’s regional offices in Catanduanes and Legazpi.
Throughout the response, WFP has supported the DICT in deploying five GECS-MOVE sets and communications equipment, which benefitted 6,000 people.