Attachments
In Numbers
- US$1.3 million six-month (April–September 2025) net funding requirements
- 379,400 people indirectly benefitted from school meals activities in the Bangsamoro Region and Luzon
- 8,500 people reached with government family food packs through WFP’s transport support
- 92,800 people directly assisted
Operational Updates
Disaster Risk Management
• Continuing support to the Government’s typhoon response, WFP provided an additional month of cash assistance to 88,600 people in Bicol Region under the Government’s 4Ps: Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program.
So far, 151,500 people (30,300 families) in Albay, Aurora, Cagayan, Camarines Sur, and Catanduanes have received cash support. An after-action review by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and WFP discussed ways to improve cash operations and strengthen and leverage social protection systems in emergency responses.
• Post-distribution monitoring indicates that the cash assistance contributed to fewer households using negative livelihood strategies (e.g., begging, selling productive assets, harvesting immature crops) to cope with food shortages (from 61 percent to 47 percent), particularly in Bicol. The cash assistance top-up improved their capacity to buy preferred food.
• WFP, UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund), and DSWD, led a mission in Bicol with delegates from Australia, Canada, the Republic of Korea, and the United Kingdom (UK). The mission showcased how partner contributions supported the WFP-augmented government typhoon response. Delegates i) met beneficiaries, ii) discussed the effectiveness of leveraging social protection programmes in emergency response, and iii) learned about the Government and WFP’s collaboration on emergency logistics and telecommunications (including the GECS-MOVE, mobile storage unit, a mobile kitchen, and WFP transportation support).
• WFP and DSWD organized the visit of the Australian government, led by the Deputy Secretary of Development, Multilateral and Europe Group and the Ambassador to the Philippines, at the National Resource Operations Center in Pasay City. The visit highlighted key partnership areas including i) digitalizing warehouse inventory systems, ii) strengthening humanitarian supply chain management capacities, and iii) supporting the 2024 typhoon response