Attachments
In Numbers
- US$10.28 million six-month (December 2024 – May 2025) net funding requirements - 595.14 mt of fortified rice distributed - 1.2 million people reached with government family food packs through WFP’s transport support - 102,427 people directly reached in November 2024
Operational Updates
Disaster Risk Management (DRM)
- Within 25 days from 24 October, a record succession of six typhoons hit northern Philippines, three of which were super typhoons. WFP has been augmenting the Government-led typhoon response through:
- Assessments: WFP and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) conducted rapid damage assessments and needs analyses (RDANA) in seven provinces most significantly affected by typhoons. The latest RDANA showed that access to cash is a priority for the affected population to meet their immediate food needs.
- Cash assistance: The findings informed WFP’s cash assistance operations in three regions of Luzon: Bicol, Cagayan Valley, and Central Luzon. So far in Bicol, 14,400 families (72,200 people) with children under 5 registered under the Government’s social protection programme (4Ps: Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Programme) have received cash assistance. Distribution monitoring results showed that most respondents intend to use the money for food, medicines, and essential non-food items (NFIs). Further expansion is planned in the first half of December, resources permitting.
- Logistics: WFP deployed 151 trucks to deliver 238,000 DSWD family food packs (FFPs) and essential NFIs to support 1.2 million people affected by the typhoons. Since 24 October, the Government has reached 1.6 million people by deploying 199 WFP trucks that transported 317,800 FFPs, two mobile storage units (MSUs), and essential NFIs. WFP also supported the installation of MSUs in Albay, Camarines Sur, and Catanduanes to provide secure and flexible storage for relief resources.
- Emergency telecommunications: WFP assisted the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) in deploying the Government Emergency Communications System-Mobile Operations Vehicle for Emergencies (GECS-MOVE) to reestablish connectivity for typhoon-hit communities. The GECS-MOVE units, along with WFP-dispatched satellite communications equipment, have provided data connectivity to 6,000 people across eight provinces.
- WFP supported the Government in i) building a prototype mobile food kitchen for emergencies and ii) conducting a feasibility study on establishing disaster resource centres in strategic locations (provinces of Butuan, Cagayan, and Camarines Sur). The study’s findings will inform the structural design of these
resource centres to enhance the Government’s humanitarian supply chain management capacities.