Philippines Prevention COVID-19 The Philippine government declared  on March 16, 2020,  a State of Calamity throughout the Philippines for a tentative period of six months. The Metro Manila and the entire Luzon island was put under "enhanced community quarantine” which is effectively a total lockdown, restricting the movement of the population. Additional lockdown restrictions mandated the temporary closure of non-essential shops and businesses. This has been cascaded with varying level of severity to most municipalities, cities and provinces throughout the Philippines during the last 2 weeks of March. Current transmission classification in the Philippines is identified as clusters of cases with evidence of community transmission in highly urbanised areas of National Capitol Region (Metro Manila), Cebu and Davao.
Vulnerabilities include:
-	All Local Government Units and Health providers are reporting dire lack of PPEs, testing kits and facilities to manage the daily increase in numbers of people reporting with symptoms, 
-	There is very limited handwashing and hygiene facilities associated any location where people are contained and tested are extremely limited through the islands and regions, markets remain open as do ports to enable movement of food and essential goods between islands however there is very limited control on social distancing in these facilities and poor management of hygiene to minimize exposure. In remote and island regions of the Philippines limited water access is a norm which many communities are accustomed to, however these limits safe hygiene practices needed to control the spread of the virus.
-	For the poor in the Philippines, some 25,000,000 people living in basic or informal settlements surrounding the countries cities and towns the impossible challenge of lock down, unable to stop work to provide a daily wage for food and essentials, for many families living conditions already cramped with no access to hygiene or sanitation facilities, being able to safety maintain social distancing and hygiene is a significant challenge in halting the spread of the virus. The national government confirmed the Social Amelioration Program (SAP) P200 billion budget allocation for emergency subsidies to 18 million low-income households; P5,000 to P8,000 each month (between 90 and 145 Euros) for two months. Slow and bureaucratic systems of local government will impact access for the poor, this is not sufficient to provide for a family.
-	In southern Mindanao, a region known for protracted conflict there are approximately 350,000 people displaced by conflict between Philippines Armed Forces and armed non-state actors or but typhoons and earthquakes. 
The project responds to the importance of front-liners and vulnerable communities enhancing their capacity to protect themselves in preventing the spread of COVID-19.
The PfR project in the Philippines enabled the building of the following alliances and platforms
1.	Calamianes Resilience Network (Northern Palawan)
2.	Guiuan Cooperation Platform (Eastern Samar)
3.	Mandaue Resilience Network Metro Cebu)
4.	Bulacan Resilience Network (Metro Manila)
We also work with two key national partners, 
5.	ICSC (the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities in Metro Manila) 
6.	Ecoweb in Mindanao: 
These networks have ability to  reach the selected most vulnerable/ marginalised groups, Therefore we deliberately decided for a strategy to support and facilitate all 5 networks to reach these groups that have difficulties (barriers) in accessing information and assistance. By supporting those networks the reach will be extensive. All 5 networks have significant support through not only the PfR but also through Local Government Units, Local CSO and People’s organizations, Universities. Each network has a Cordaid staff attached to the network for coordination and operations, at national level strategic strategies and cooperation are streamed through the national Cordaid Philippines office and National Partners a Objective: Reduce the spread of COVID-19 for frontline health workers and marginalized vulnerable groups; the urban poor, informal settlers, and IDPs  in 6 regions in the Philippines. -	Urban poor and IDPs that are living in informal or relocation sites; 
-	Isolated island and coastal populations
-	Social workers and Front-liners