SECTOR: Social Services
SONA YEAR: 2022
Provide quick disaster response
PROMISE STATUS - DATE: In progress as of 07/17/2023
- The DSWD reported on May 25 that it prepared over a million family food packs in anticipation of Super Typhoon Betty.
- The agency provided P65.72 million worth of food and non-food assistance to families affected by the Mayon Volcano eruption as of July 12, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. Evacuees in Albay have an allocation from the 200,000 family food packs stockpiled by the department while Mayon and Taal volcanoes remain restive.
- New warehouses for storing relief goods were built in Virac, Catanduanes; San Luis, Aurora; La Trinidad, Benguet; and Tabuk City, Kalinga from October 2022 to last June.
- A technical working group was formed to discuss the transfer of implementing the emergency shelter assistance (ESA) program from the DSWD to the DHSUD, according to a July 6 email the DSWD sent to VERA Files.
- The DHSUD, through the National Housing Authority (NHA) and the DSWD, jointly implemented disaster shelter assistance programs for victims of Typhoon Odette. The NHA handled the ESA’s implementation in Regions IV-B and VII, while the DSWD handled regions VI, VIII, X, and CARAGA.