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WFP Philippines Country Brief

Oct 20, 2017
WFP Philippines Country Brief

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Highlights

  • As the Government of the Philippines attempts to put an end to the fighting in Marawi in a few weeks, WFP continues to provide food assistance to displaced families and supports return of displaced children to schools through school meals. WFP also provides logistics support in augmenting government relief distribution capacity.
  • Funding constraints are affecting livelihood support in Central Mindanao.

Operational Updates

  • WFP continues to support the Government of the Philippines’ emergency response to the Marawi crisis through general food distributions and school feeding. By September, WFP has distributed a total of 395 mt of rice to more than 15,000 families in 13 municipalities in Lanao del Sur.
  • Through the generous support of the Government of Australia, WFP has supported nearly 60,000 public elementary and high school students through emergency school meals in more than 170 schools in the provinces of Lanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur where the majority of the displaced population are taking refuge.
  • WFP signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Climate Change Service of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in enhancing the technical and physical capacities of its personnel on mainstreaming climate change knowledge and risk management throughout the country. This is in line with WFP’s Disaster Preparedness and Response – Climate Change Adaptation (DPR-CCA) project which commenced in 2011 in partnership with USAID/Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance.
  • Aiming to strengthen the capacity of the government to plan for and respond to the logistical requirements of an emergency relief operation at the central and regional level, WFP and the Office of Civil Defense signed the Logistics Capacity-Strengthening Work Plan 2017-2018.
  • WFP delivered a presentation at the Philippine Chamber of Food Manufacturers, Inc. (PCFMI) Food Industry Summit on how the private sector can contribute to the success of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Read full report here.

Original source: WFP.
Posted on 30 September 2017