Disaster Response and Monitoring
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WHAT is the program about?
It is the provision of resource augmentation assistance to local government units to help families and communities ravaged by disaster and other fortuitous events. DSWD offers both relief and restoration assistance.
Relief Assistance – pertains to immediate provision of essential services on the implementation of emergency assistance programs and services.
1. Food Assistance – refers to provision of appropriate food commodities to victims of natural or man-made disasters/calamities to help prevent starvation and/or nutritional decline.
2. Non-Food Assistance – refers to the provision of limited commodities other than food to respond to the needs of clothing and domestic requirements of individuals and families affected by armed conflict, fire, landslide, floods and other emergency situations who were not able to salvage or carry with them such items during evacuations.
Rehabilitation and Restoration Assistance – refers to action taken in the weeks or months following a disaster to restore basic services to enable the population to return to pre-disaster condition. The rehabilitation activities also aim to provide for rapid restoration of morale of affected individuals or families.
1. Emergency Shelter Assistance (ESA) – the provision of limited financial assistance to augment resources of families in repairing damaged houses which were partially damaged shelter.
2. Core Shelter Assistance Project (CSAP)-the provision of an environmental friendly, structurally strong shelter units that can withstand various forces of hazards such as typhoons, earthquakes and flooding using locally purchased construction materials
3. Food For Work (FFW)/Cash For Work (CFW) – the provision of food or cash to meet the subsistence requirement of distressed/displaced individuals , participating or undertaking preparedness, mitigation and rehabilitation activities/projects in their communities or inside evacuation centers.
WHO is this intended for?
Victims of disaster, distressed and displaced individuals
WHO is DSWD working with to implement this program?
Local government units (LGUs) through the Provincial/City/Municipal Social Welfare offices
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