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Immediate response to Typhoon Washi in Mindanao, December 2011 Typhoon Washi hit the Mindanao region of the Philippines on 16th December. Flash floods caused by the storm have left a trail of devastation in the cities of Iligan and Cagayan de Oro and in villages along the coast. Rivers burst their banks after more than 12 hours of continuous rain. Entire villages have been swept away into the sea. 

The official figure by the national authorities as of the end December 2011 was 1257 dead, over 1,500 injured and almost 285,000 being served inside and outside 62 evacuation centres (source: relief-web; National Risk Reduction and Management Council). 80% of the served people are outside of the evacuation centres. OCHA talks about nearly 340,000 affected across Northern Mindanao. Numbers are expected to raise in the coming days as more rural areas are reached.
 
CAFOD's Philippines Accompanier, Rockrock, together with our partner ECOWEB (based in the area and best placed to respond) conducted an assessment into rural affected areas. In some places they were the first outsiders to arrive.  The most immediate needs are short term food supplies, NFIs and shelter - construction material/tools to provide temporary shelters, repair of houses and removal of debris. In a longer term farming seeds and tools will be necessary to replace livelihood losses. 

Ecoweb's proposal includes first phase emergency food ration for 3 days, NFIs and tools for WFP food for work in communities where Ecoweb works (clearing landslides from roads).  Ecoweb will distribute 450 shelter kits consisting of 12 GI sheet, 8 plywood sheets and essential tools in rural areas and in the peri-urban area of Iligan City Ecoweb will build 50 temporary shelters in the workst affected neighbourhoods (Santiago, Hinaplanon,Upper Hinaplanon).  The temporary shelters are to be built using timber washed out of the mountains by the storm and confiscated by Iligan City hall municipality; these will be sawn into appropirate shapes and sizes using a rented band saw.  Additional work in rural areas will focus on repairing 4 gravity fed water systems, and, to assist the agricultural recovery of rural communities, the distribution of 200 seeds and tools kits (100 with ploughs and 100 without).
Restoration and diversification of livelihood opportunities post Typhoon Haiyan, Philippines. This project represents one component of CAFOD's 2nd phase Philippines Typhoon DEC funding. This project builds upon the short-term agriculture assistance provided during Phase 1 (PHI370). This new 18 month project will expand the target groups beyond farmers, and address vulnerable landless labourers and fisher folk.  
 
An estimated 16 million people were affected by Typhoon Haiyan, with more than 90% of these in regions VI (Western Visayas), VII (Central Visayas), and VIII (Eastern Visayas). Livelihoods have been severely affected in a region heavily reliant on coconut farming and fishing opportunities. The Typhoon resulted in the loss of an estimated 3 million trees in Region VIII (affecting 285,548 farmers) and destroyed over 18,000 fishing boats. 
 
To date, approximately 4.6 million people have received food assistance from a range of sources. However, as food assistance scales down there is an increasing gap in immediate support to livelihoods, and the development of medium and long term strategies. 
 
This project will be implemented by CRS, across 7 municipalities.  It will target 3 main groups:
 
-Unskilled laborers and off-farm workers. 
-Small scale coconut farmers:
-Fisher folk. 
 
Through this project:
 
-720HH (3600 individuals) vulnerable individuals representing landless households will be targeted for livelihoods support, including small business and skills training and seedling production. .  
 
-1980HH (9900 individuals) small coconut farmers will benefit from diversification of crops, improved soil conditions and increased labour opportunities. 

-540 HH (2700 individuals) households will be assisted through diversification of income related to aquaculture; including support to improve existing productive capacity and promotion of aquaculture as an alternative to coconut and conventional fishing.
Emergency WASH assistance to Cyclone Haiyan affected communities DFID RRF Consortium of Plan International, Oxfam and CAFOD (with CRS as Implementing Partner). Lead Agency: Plan International. Total agreed income for Consortium: £2 million. 

Typhoon Haiyan (local name “Yolanda”) made landfall early on Friday morning, November 8, on the southern tip of the Eastern Visayas island of Samar.  As a Category 5 super typhoon with 313 kph (195 mph) winds, it is the strongest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall. More than 5000 were killed and current OCHA figures report that 15million have been affected, 4 million displaced and 1.2 million houses destroyed.

The overall aim of the consortium response is to ensure that 21,000 cyclone affected families have access to clean water, sanitation facilities, and hygiene promotion materials.  CAFOD, through CRS, will distribute 10,000 hygiene kits, 10,000 water kits, construct 700 latrines and install 38 water tanks in Leyte Province. The project activities and funding has been divided equally amongst the three agencies with CAFOD receiving a total of £651,954. Oxfam agreed to lead on procurement, sourcing and delivering hygiene and water kits to Plan and CRS.
Emergency assistance to vulnerable households affected by Typhoon Haiyan Typhoon Haiyan (local name “Yolanda”) made landfall early on Friday morning, November 8, on the southern tip of the Eastern Visayas island of Samar.  As a Category 5 super typhoon with 313 kph (195 mph) winds, it is the strongest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall.  As of November 17, there are more than 12.9 million people affected by the Typhoon across 574 municipalities/cities with 3,976 reported casualties and 1,598 still missing (NDRRMC UP Sitrep No. 26 and OCHA Sitrep No. 9).   Although this number is expected to climb. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) is currently reporting an estimated total of nearly 4 million people currently displaced, with 353,862 inside 1,550 evacuation centers.   
To date, a NASSA surge team, together with International Caritas Humanitarian Team composed of technical staff from Caritas Internationalis, Caritas Germany, Trocaire and CORDAID, conducted rapid assessments in Tacloban, Ormoc, Palo, Biliran, Cebu, Capiz and Aklan. 
Caritas Philippines National Secretariat for Social Action (NASSA) is actively engaged in responding to this emergency.Together with Caritas Manila, Quiapo Church DRR Ministry and Diocesan Social Actions Centers (DSACs) in 13 dioceses, NASSA has been coordinating blanket distributions of food and water to the affected populations since November 8. 
NASSA proposes to provide immediate food relief, non-food items (NFI’s), hygiene support, shelter services and an initial food recovery program to 55,000 of the most vulnerable households (275,000 beneficiaries) in the provinces of Palawan, Leyte, Eastern Samar, Antique, Capiz, Ilo-ilo and Kalibo. 
A CI EA has been launched and CAFOD is contributing £250,000 to support these immediate relief activities. £150,000 has been transferred in advance.
Supporting indigenous peoples to protect and develop their rights, lands and resources Philippines Indigenous Peoples Links, known as PIPLinks for short, is a UK-based organisation started in response to requests for support from indigenous people’s groups in the Cordillera region of the Philippines, to help them deal more effectively with threats to their ancestral lands and way of life from mining companies.  The government is very keen to promote international investment in mining projects, yet the mechanisms in place in the Philippines to hold the companies to proper standards of transparency and accountability, and to monitor compliance, are quite weak.  PIPLinks stands for the rights of the local communities to decide and control, and share fairly in the benefit from, how their land and natural resources are used.  It works hard to ensure that their voices are heard in international debates, and has been a key partner in CAFOD’s Unearth Justice campaign.  Most recently (2008-11) CAFOD has been supporting a project focusing primarily, though not exclusively, on communities living in three selected areas of the Philippines (Canatuan and Macambol in Mindanao, and Sablayan in Mindoro) and the respective mining companies wanting to work in those areas (TVI, BHP Biliton and Intex).  CAFOD is also supporting PIPLinks to broaden the scope of its work to influence policy debates in other South East Asian countries.
Sustainable management of natural resources through empowerment of indigenous and rural communities The Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center-Kasama sa Kalikasan (LRC-KsK ), the official member of Friends of the Earth International for the Philippines, provides legal expertise and support to poor and vulnerable people whose livelihood resources (especially land rights) are under threat   – particularly to indigenous people, and communities in upland rural areas.  LRC-KsK seeks to defend the communities’ rights to land and natural resources, while at the same time encouraging good practice in natural resource management, and local community initiatives for development which are ecologically sustainable, culturally appropriate and economically viable.  Forestry, mining and energy issues are all taken into consideration.  Central to the activities of LRC-KsK is to monitor, and be ready to critique, policies and laws affecting indigenous peoples and natural resources.  Paralegal trainings are conducted with partner communities, and cases filed in the courts as deemed fit by the communities in the context of their own campaigns and struggles.  With the assistance of legal policy experts, LRC-KsK develops policy alternatives informed by indigenous communities.  LRC-KsK also engages the media, and facilitates networking with local, national and international organisations which can be linked in to add support to local campaigns.
Evaluation of CAFOD’s Emergency Response Programme for the Philippines The Philippines Emergency Programme is one of CAFOD’s largest programmes, and the most successful supporters appeal since the Haiti earthquake. The appeal funds totalled more than £5.4m. In addition, CAFOD secured £2.95m from the DEC appeal, and £650,000 from DFID Rapid Response Facility, bringing the total response budget to over £9 million GBP. The programme evaluation completed by CAFOD will not be an evaluation of individual project impact, although this will factor into the overall success of the programme . Rather, the programme evaluation will seek to examine CAFOD’s partnership approach within the context of the Typhoon Haiyan emergency response, looking at how this approach contributed to the achievement of the programme’s strategy and framework and aligned with international quality criteria.
Emergency Response for the Survivors of Typhoon Haiyan (Caritas Switzerland) Super Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as “Yolanda”) made landfall early on Friday morning, November
8. As a category 5 super typhoon with 313 km/h winds, it is the strongest tropical cyclone on record to make landfall.  It is estimated by the UN-Agencies and the Philippine Government that the Typhoon Haiyan affected more than 14
million people and left 4 million persons displaced across 41 provinces. According to the National Disaster
Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), the current death toll stands at 5’560, with
another 1’757 people still missing (as of November 29, 2013).
 
This project will provide food, emergency shelters, non-food-items and hygiene articles in the two municipalities of Madridejos and Santa Fe on Bantayan Island. In total 9’000 beneficiary families (approx. 45’000 people) will be supported. The project will be implemented in the Philippines, Central Visayas Region, in the two municipalities
Madridejos and Santa Fe (Cebu Province) on Bantayan Island.
EA29/2020 Emergency Response Super Typhoon Goni, November 2020 Super Typhoon Goni made its first landfall in Bato, Catanduanes 1st of November, 2020. According to the accounts of the residents in the ground zero, typhoon Goni was the strongest they have been experienced in the past 26 years.

Food remains to be the priority need of the typhoon-savaged island. According to Governor Joseph Cua, they have initially requested from the national government at least 500,000 food packs for the affected population on November 5, 2020. 

According to initial reports from municipal disaster risk reduction and management offices, at least 80% of the shelters have been damaged. 

Agriculture also suffered a major blow, with the abaca industry severely devastated. The Philippine Fiber Industry Development Authority reported in November 6, 2020 that of the 36,000 hectares of abaca plantation, only 9,000 hectares were spared. Of this number, only 25% have a chance of recovery.

The overall goal of this response is to meet the essential emergency needs of affected communities: shelter, livelihoods and enhanced emergency preparedness capacity of 1,780 households (9,750 individuals) in the provinces of Catanduanes and Albay.
Emergency and Early Recovery Assistance to Communities Affected by Typhoon Odette/Rai in 11 Dioceses Typhoon Rai affected 38 provinces in the Philippines. Most of the affected communities are located in mountainous and coastal areas, thus the enormous damages to houses (made of light materials) and livelihoods (agriculture and fishing). According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council Situationer Report on January 1, 2022, more than 500 thousand houses were destroyed, and damages to livelihoods amount to 7 billion pesos and more data are still unaccounted. 

In reference to the above context, Caritas Philippines decided to focus more on the early recovery (shelter, livelihoods and capacity building) to continue the phase of humanitarian response as recommended in the Needs Assessment Report.   

The overall goal is to meet the essential emergency needs: shelter, livelihoods and enhanced emergency preparedness capacity of 10,984 households (56,790 individuals), affected by Super Typhoon Rai (local name: Odette) in the provinces of Surigao, Southern Leyte,  Bohol, Cebu, Negros Oriental and Occidental and Palawan, Philippines
Emergency Response to Bohol earthquake The province of Bohol in the central  Visayas in the Philippines have been affected by the magnitude 7.2 earthquake on 15 .October.2013. This earthquake also affected part of Cebu and was fell in neighboring island provinces in the Visayas. The province in Bohol now under State of calamity and badly in need of organized and the intervention for humanitarian response. 
According to the situation report from OCHA have presented that 149 have been killed, 188 are injured and 21 person are still missing. Up to now there are 3.5 million people have been affected and which 158,466 people have been displaced to inside and outside evacuation centers. 
NASSA and CRS are on the ground and coordinating with local government units (LGUs), other humanitarian actors, Church (Diocese and SAC). They are going to request CI for an appeal. CAFOD has always been in touch with NASSA and CRS on every emergency in the Philippines and we are aware of their capability and limitations. We are also in touch with CRS in the region on HCD and on actual response. CAFOD's program accompanier is there providing support in further assessments and participating in discussions among various stakeholders as CAFOD staff. He is focusing detailed assessment on verification of target beneficiaries, accuracy of intervention strategy, and figuring out how best to deliver emergency assistance given the logistical limitations. So CAFOD will deploy the technical consultant to provide the technical support for over partner and CAFOD 's PA in the ground doing emergency response.
Emergency and Early Recovery Support to Typhoon Melor (Nona) In December 18, 2015, Tropical Storm (TS) Melor (local name: Nona) left a massive devastation to shelter and livelihoods of the most vulnerable communities in the provinces of Northern Samar, Sorsogon, Masbate, Romblon, and Oriental Mindoro. For this response, NASSA/Caritas Philippines and the Diocesan Social Action Centers of Catarman, Romblon and Sorsogon proposed to address several priority needs: shelter repair kits for the households with totally damaged houses; alternative livelihoods such as poultry raising and seasoned vegetable planting to address food security in the soonest possible time; rehabilitation of damaged water systems to resume distribution of safe drinking water to the barangays/households; hygiene promotion activities, and capacity building trainings for institutional management on CMDRR.
Restoration and Diversification of Livelihoods in Leyte and Eastern Samar - DEC Phase 2B Following the impact of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines this project, one component of CAFOD's DEC Phase 2B response, aims to improve the resilience to future shocks of rural communities in Eastern Samar and Leyte provinces, where it brought the highest amount of damage and loss of life.

Typhoon Haiyan severely disrupted longer term livelihood activities, particularly for coconut farmers who are still struggling to recover and remain vulnerable to frequent shocks.  The livelihoods project has made significant progress with farmers engaging in new and diversified crops through training and inputs that served as a gateway (or entry-point) for future food security activities.  There is now a need for responders and other stakeholders to consider longer term strategies to ensure that communities become more resilient to future shocks, contributing to the long term goal where typhoon-affected households in Leyte and Eastern Samar exceed pre-Yolanda/Haiyan livelihood quality. 

CAFOD’s partner Catholic Relief Services (CRS) aims to support farmers in their next phase of recovery by using an agro-enterprise model to link farmers to markets. Various strategies such as demonstration plots, innovations such as artificial insemination, feeding guidelines and drinkers for swine will be used to support farmers to increase their productivity and build upon the trainings provided during the first two phases. The project will continue working with vulnerable females and males, as identified in the registration process.
EA 30/2019 Mindanao Earthquake Response In October 29, 2019, a 6.6 magnitude earthquake rocked Tulunan, North Cotabato. This has been the 3rd strong typhoon since July 9, 2019. Then on October 31, 2019, a 6.5 magnitude earthquake again was experienced in the same epicentre with the same tectonic origin.

As of November 9, 2019, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) have reported that at least 53,044 families (264,531 persons) are affected from 314 barangays in Regions XI and XII.  Of these numbers, 11,547 families (55,462 individuals) are being served in 68 evacuation centers.

EA 30/2019 aims to respond to the basic relief, shelter, livelihoods and emergency and capacity building needs of 2,260 families (10,290 individuals). The EA will run for 1 year (January - December 2020).
Promoting gender equality with church partners in the Philippines This project will be implemented by Philippines partner Sabakan and forms part of a multi-country gender programme with partners from Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Philippines. The Philippines partner Sabakan will engage with the national gender related network initiated by the Catholic Church in the Philippines.   Sabakan have strong existing experience of mobilising and strengthening church mechanisms on gender and family violence prevention. This will be captured in reflection workshops and shared within the network of partners engaged in the overall programme. Initial research and documentation will be undertaken with Sabakan to identify learning, effective strategies and recommendations which will be shared with the other participating partners and within CAFOD to inform the ongoing programme. Sabakan’s experience of working with the church on gender is unique and has gone through various phases. Initially formed within church structures it began to operate more independently when funded by CAFOD and Cordaid. This allowed for a stronger focus on advocacy resulting at times in a more challenging relationship to the church. Following reduced funding Sabakan had to re-integrate itself back into the church structures which led to changes in their advocacy approach, but a stronger support from clergy for their gender work due to the church’s sense of ownership. Further useful tools to be shared with the African partners is the gender training modules Sabakan has developed for clergy as well as the strategy of establishing men’s support groups in their awareness raising work on gender based violence in the parishes.
Interfaith Movement for Peace Empowerment and Development, Inc. (IMPEDE) IMPEDE is an ecumenical organisation, focused on advocacy & campaigning to conserve the rich biodiversity of Mt. Hamiguitan Range and Pujada Bay in Davao Oriental, southeastern Mindanao.

In 1992, IMPEDE, took the decision to focus their advocacy work on environmental issues, primarily forest protection and coastal resource management. In 2004 Impede joined MMSAID and LRC to campaign against mining. In 2008 IMPEDE, through LRC, became the primary partner at community level of CAFOD’s Unearth Justice Campaign. Large mining companies with stakes in these areas have currently suspended major operations. 
The 2010-11 Project hopes to sustain the gains in the 2009-10 project aims and to prevent resumption of mining by creating alliances with local stakeholders and leveraging growing realisation that the mining industry does not deliver a stable future. IMPEDE will employ a four-pronged strategy to achieve this, namely:
a)  strengthening the Macambol Multi-sectoral Association for Integral Development (MMSAID) to lead the struggle to oppose extractive industries within the critical ecosystems in the 3 protected areas;  
b)  to build a strong support coming from neighbouring communities that also reside in the MHR and Pujada Bay and from non-government organizations, academe, individual environment advocates from the province and outside;  
c) to participate in biodiversity conservation in the coastal and terrestrial ecosystems; and 
d) to empower communities to improve their livelihoods and increase their food security
Missed Again: Making space for partnerships in the Typhoon Haiyan response This inter-agency project builds on the Missed Opportunities policy work which CAFOD has been involved in with 4 other NGOs which work through a partnership approach to humanitarian response. This research project examined the humanitarian response to Typhoon Haiyan and provided evidence of how the international humanitarian system aided and impeded partnership approaches.