Attachments
In Numbers
US$6.86 million six-month (March – August 2025) net funding requirements
240,400 people indirectly benefitted from school meals activities in the Bangsamoro Region
Over 160 disaster response equipment and innovations turned over to the Government
5,800 people directly reached in February 2025
Operational Updates
Disaster Risk Management
• WFP turned over a mobile kitchen to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to strengthen the agency’s capacity to swiftly meet the food needs of shock-affected communities. The mobile kitchen, codesigned with DSWD, can be deployed to provide hot and nutritious meals for at least 1,000 evacuees and was the basis for a further 15 mobile kitchens procured by DSWD.
• In continued support of the Government-led response to the 2024 typhoons, WFP provided cash assistance to i) 3,125 people (625 families) in Aurora Province through the national social protection programme, Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps, and ii) 785 people (157 families) pre-registered under a joint UN anticipatory action programme. Since November 2024, over 151,000 people have received cash assistance, enabling families in typhoon-affected areas to purchase food and other essential needs.
• WFP organized a technical monitoring visit for representatives from the Australian Embassy’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in Aurora Province. The visit provided a platform to share experiences in delivering emergency financial assistance through the 4Ps. DFAT staff engaged with families from Dipaculao and Baler municipalities who shared their appreciation for the timely support from the Government and WFP.
• WFP facilitated a visit of a Swedish delegation headed by the State Secretary and the Ambassador of Sweden to showcase the Government Emergency Communications System-Mobile Operations Vehicle for Emergencies (GECS-MOVE)1 units funded primarily by the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) as part of WFP’s broader disaster risk management portfolio. WFP also handed over the final GECS-MOVE set to the DICT regional office in Laoag, Ilocos Norte.
• To support the DICT in establishing a national emergency telecommunications training centre, WFP donated additional telecommunications equipment. 2 The centre will deliver specialized training programmes for upskilling government responders.