Attachments
In Numbers
10 mt of iron-fortified rice distributed*
US$119,865 worth of food vouchers distributed
US$6.21 million six-month (March–August 2024) net funding requirements
12,150 people assisted in February 2024
Operational Updates
Country Strategic Plan 2024-2028
- WFP's Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2024-2028 was approved by the Executive Board. The new CSP outlines how WFP will continue to support the Philippine Government in i) strengthening emergency preparedness and response and ii) enhancing resilience in the next five years, in line with the national and subnational development plans and the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework.
Government Food e-Voucher Programme
- Under the pilot implementation of the Walang Gutom (No Hunger) 2027, WFP and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) reached a total of 2,230 households in Dapa, Surigao del Norte; Garchitorena, Camarines Sur; Parang,
Maguindanao; San Mariano, Isabela; and Tondo,
Manila. Along with nutrition messages, each participant received food vouchers loaded with US$55 (PHP 3,000) to meet their basic food requirements.
Logistics Support
- To augment Government-led response operations in communities affected by severe floods in Caraga and Davao Regions in Mindanao, WFP mobilized 54 trucks to transport over 91,000 family food packs from DSWD to support 455,000 crisis-affected people.
Emergency Preparedness and Response (EPR)
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WFP signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a five-year partnership with the Government to implement the Project on Local Adaptation to Water Access (LAWA) and Breaking Insufficiency through Nutritious Harvest for the Impoverished (BINHI). Community-driven activities through this initiative aim to ensure water sufficiency and food security in communities vulnerable to natural hazards and climate change, especially indigenous peoples.
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WFP conducted the Emergency Preparedness Capacity Index (EPCI) Workshop with the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office of Cagayan Province. The workshop assessed the province's current EPR capacity and identified areas of improvement and support that WFP will provide moving forward.
Nutrition
- WFP participated in the first Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Core Group meeting for 2024.
Representatives of SUN networks discussed the schedule of activities for the year, the organization of the SUN Youth Network, the 2023 SUN Joint Assessment reporting template, and the upcoming General Assembly in June.
Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM)
- WFP reached 1,000 people through food assistance for assets (FFA) projects in Maguindanao del Sur. This marks the completion of the three-month FFA project that supported BARMM communities on local infrastructure rehabilitation (farm-to-market roads and footbridges), seedling production, and reforestation.
Each family received 150 kg of iron-fortified rice (50 kg per month) from WFP to meet their food and nutrition needs.
Anticipatory Action
- WFP joined Congressman Jose Manuel Alba from the Province of Bukidnon in filing House Bill No. 9935:
Declaration of State of Imminent Disaster Act in Congress. The Bill aims to lay the legislative groundwork for the adoption of Anticipatory Action into the Philippines' Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Framework, allowing government agencies to access funds before a state of calamity is declared. The Bill's filing in Congress highlights the joint efforts of the Policy, Financing, and Institutionalization Technical SubWorking Group co-chaired by WFP and the Office of Civil Defense.
South-South and Triangular Cooperation
- WFP organized a learning visit between the People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Government of the Philippines on the institutionalization of Anticipatory Action and development of adaptive and shockresponsive social protection programmes. The delegates consulted with the BARMM-Ministry of Social Services and Development, BARMM-READi (Rapid Emergency Action on Disaster Incidence), and the Municipality of Midsayap in the province of Cotabato, as well as the Office of Civil Defense, DSWD, and the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration.