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6 June 2014, 11AM-3PM Eastern Visayas State University (ESSU) Guiuan, Eastern Samar

OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINES AND UNITED NATIONS HUMANITARIAN COUNTRY TEAMS (UN-HCT) ON TYPHOON YOLANDA

A Documentation Report:

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5th Inter-Cluster Coordination Meeting on Typhoon Yolanda, 6 June 2014, Guiuan, Eastern Samar

AGENDA:

1. Call to Order by DSWD Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman (Page 5)

2. Welcome Messages

2.1 Mayor Christopher “Sheen” Gonzales, Guiuan, Eastern Samar (Page 5)

2.2 Ms. Luiza Carvalho, United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator (Page 5)

3. Review of the Highlights of the Previous Inter-Cluster Coordination Meeting Held on May 19, 2014 in Ormoc City by Assistant Regional Director (ARD) Resty Macuto, DSWD Field Office VIII (Page 5, Annex A)

4. Presentation of Cluster Updates

4.1 Shelter Cluster Updates presented by ARD Resty Macuto (Page 6, Annex B)

4.2 Protection Cluster Updates presented by Anne Landouzy-Sanders, Protection Cluster Co-Lead, UNHCR (Page 7, Annexes C&D)

4.3 Nutrition Cluster Updates presented by Dr. Catalino P. Dotollo, Jr., Regional Nutrition Programme Coordinator, National Nutrition Council, Region VIII (Page 8, Annex E)

4.4 Health Cluster Updates presented by Dr Jean Marie Egardo, DOH PHT Team Leader, Province of Eastern Samar (Page 10, Annex F)

4.5 Education Cluster Updates presented by Mr. Reynaldo Nayre, Department of Education, Krishnakumar Palanisamy, Save the Children, and Matthew Swift, UNICEF (Page 11, Annex G)

4.6 Early Recovery and Livelihood Cluster Updates presented by Maurice Dewulf, Jeremie Toussaint, and Adam Marlatt of UNDP and Joe Pilapil, PCA (Page 13, Annex H&I)

4.7 WASH Cluster Updates presented by Prem Chand, Sub-National WASH Cluster Coordinator for Eastern Samar, UNICEF (Page 16, Annex J)

4.8 Food Security and Agriculture Cluster Updates (Page 16, Annex K)

4.9 Camp Coordination and Camp Management Cluster Updates presented by ARD Resty Macuto (Page 17, Annex L)

5. Other Matters

5.1 Timeline of Engagement of UN Agencies in the “Yolanda”-Affected Areas presented by Mr. David Carden, Head of Office, UN OCHA (Page 18, Annex M)

5.2 Presentation of Region VIII IDP Profiles using DSWD’s Disaster Assistance and Family Access Card (DAFAC) by ARD Resty Macuto (Page 19, Annex N)

6. Closing Remarks by Secretary Soliman, Ms. Carvalho and Mayor Gonzales (Page 19)

7. Distribution of Certificates/ Adjournment (0)

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5th Inter-Cluster Coordination Meeting on Typhoon Yolanda, 6 June 2014, Guiuan, Eastern Samar Presided by: Secretary Corazon-Juliano Soliman, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Co-Presided by: Ms. Luiza Carvalho, United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator Special Guests: Secretary Mar Roxas, DILG, and Secretary Butch Abad, DBM Facilitator: Mr. Vincent Omuga, OCHA Attendees: From the Philippine Government: DSWD, DOH (National Nutrition Council), DepED, DAR, OPARR, Guiuan LGU, NBI-DIV, PNP, Guiuan Tourism Office | From the United Nations-HCTs: UNDP, UNWFP, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNOCHA,UNFPA, UNFAO, UN Habitat | From the INGO/ LNGO/ Media/ Private Sector: Save the Children, IOM, Plan Int’l, WHO, CFSI, Consuelo Fdt’n, HCR, Philippine Red Cross, ICRC, FRC, CAPAM, NIAMC, Triangle GM, CordAid, ILO, Operation Blessing, Aksyon Radyo, Makati Rescue Global Department, ASB

Attachments Annex A: Highlights of the May19 Inter-Cluster Meeting in Ormoc City Annex B: Shelter Cluster Updates as of 6 June 2014 Annex C: Protection Cluster’s Protection Needs Assessment Report as of May 2014 Annex D: Protection Cluster Updates as of 6 June 2014 Annex E: Nutrition Cluster Updates as of 6 June 2014 Annex F: Health Cluster Updates as of 6 June 2014 Annex G: Education Cluster Updates as of 6 June 2014 Annex H: Early Recovery and Livelihood Cluster Updates as of 6 June 2014 Annex I: Philippine Coconut Authority – Tree Clearance Plan as of 6 June 2014 Annex J: WASH Cluster Updates as of 6 June 2014 Annex K: Food Security and Agriculture Cluster Updates as of 6 June 2014 Annex L: Camp Coordination and Camp Management Cluster Updates as of 6 June 2014 Annex M: Humanitarian Clusters Transition Plan in Regions VI and VIII Annex N: Profiling of Internally Displaced Persons in Region VIII using DSWD’s DAFAC

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SUMMARY OF AGREEMENTS:

Cluster/ Area Agreements: Recommendations/Way Forward/ Next Steps Reference

ALL CLUSTERS Review the highlights of the minutes/documentation on the: a) 3rd ICC meeting in Palo, Leyte on 7 April 2014 b) 4th ICC meeting in Ormoc City on 9 May 2014, and c) 5th ICC meeting in Guiuan, Eastern Samar on 6 June 2014. Send to the secretariat your comments, inputs or updates thru the following email addresses: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; and [email protected].

The 6th and Final Inter-Cluster Coordination Meeting will be held within the first week of July, hopefully within Tacloban City. Specific venue to be announced soon by the secretariat.

This Report and Annexes P,Q&R

1. Shelter Cluster

Convene a meeting for other Provinces that have not yet submitted their rehabilitation plans, in order to get, among others, the necessary data on permanent shelter needs, which will be the basis of the national government for budget allocation – c/o OPARR, Provincial LGUs

Continue providing shelter support to 81,994 more households Ensure that the remaining 3,000 families still living in tents in Eastern

Visayas should be transferred to sound and safe temporary shelters by end of June – c/o DSWD, IOM, and cluster members

Disseminate hazard/disaster maps to affected barangays and municipalities to increase disaster awareness – c/o UNDP, OCD

Launching of the National Community Driven Development Programme (NCDDP) on June 23rd (humanitarian partners are invited to attend) – c/o DSWD

Page 6 Annex B

2. Protection Cluster

Share with the cluster members the results of the Protection Needs Assessment Report as of May 2014 – c/o UNHCR

Strengthen the capacity-building of the CHR who is gradually taking over PC co-leadership

Issuance of policy guidelines ensuring that relocation of affected people respects HR standards

Support for LGUs to engage in a process of consultation, articipation and fair selection of beneficiaries, and address all HLP-issues

Strengthened efforts on issuance/reconstruction of civil documentation .

On Child Protection Provide additional capacity building/technical and material support to

DSWD, PNP and LCPCs. Continued advocacy with CP partners On-going coordination and strong leadership of DSWD. On Gender-Based Violence Increased financial support and human resources

Advocacy at LGU level to establish inter-agency protection mechanisms with Local Council for Anti-Trafficking and Violence Against Women and their Children

Page 7 Annexes C&D

3. Nutrition Cluster

Provide the number of cases of malnutrition in the affected areas in order to determine the exact resource requirements to address this concern. If possible, make a story about this issue, especially that donors are manifesting additional support to address such cases – c/o DOH, UNICEF

May 31: Handover of Cluster to National Nutrition Council (NNC) June 01: Cluster to be led by the NNC UNICEF to act as a secretariat to the NNC Nutrition Cluster Coordinator training earmarked for first week of July. Second SMART survey earmarked for September 2014

Page 8 Annex E

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4. Health Cluster

Monitor the hiring of additional engineers for the LGUs in order to help fast-track the implementation of the Quick Fix Projects – c/o OH

Rehabilitation of health facilities Rehabilitation of birthing facilities Vector control to prevent outbreak diseases Continued delivery of critical health services such as immunization, cold

chain management, facility-based deliveries, and TB detection and treatment

Mental health and psychosocial support Repair of barangay health stations, rural health units, and hospitals

Page 10 Annex F

5. Education Cluster

Report for the next ICC meeting the number of volunteers mobilized and amount of donations generated for the conduct of Brigada Eskwela –c/o DepEd

Ensure coordination among the Education Cluster partners and DepEd for the on-going repair and reconstruction of schools

Advocate for the relocation of families from the remaining 2 schools in Tacloban City and 2 schools in Tanauan (a total of about 1,200 families) in coordination with CCCM and Shelter Cluster

Guidance/advocacy messages to be developed on the use of schools as evacuation centers (DSWD/DepEd/DILG) for the future

Prioritising activities for the opening of DCCs Advocate with the City of Tacloban for the resumption of Day Care

Workers Salaries for the upcoming opening of DCCs on 9thJune Education in emergencies should be streamlined in teacher training,

incorporating child protection in emergencies, training on psychosocial debriefing in case of disaster.

Improved school planning / contingency planning to prepare the schools for disaster, for the relocation of students, etc.

On-going need psychosocial support to children Response should not just focus on provision of learning supplies; but

also balanced approach for quality of education DepEd should convene a TWG, to be composed of TESDA, DOLE, and

DSWD, in order to track and monitor the status of the out-of-school youth and provide the necessary interventions and support to them – c/o DepEd, TESDA, DOLE, DSWD

Psycho-Social Support for Parents and Children through Family Development Sessions - DSWD

Page 11 Annex G

6. Early Recovery and Livelihood Cluster

Provincial Recovery and Livelihoods Plans approved by the Government (plans to serve as guiding instruments)

Main support to OCHA and UNDP to support OPARR and Provinces Tree Clearance Plan (As we reach the end of the current 90-day

programme, the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) and partners will accelerate the removal and processing of 6 million trees in Leyte, Samar and Eastern Samar over the next six months) – c/o DSWD, PCA, DA, DND, OPARR, UNDP, FAO

Advocate for the establishment of productivity centers in resettlement sites – DSWD

Regarding the issue on oversupply of timber, OPARR should convene the Shelter, FSAC, and Early Recovery and Livelihood clusters in order to discuss the needs for permanent shelter, in order that we know where to bring in the timbers, with the caveat that they should be cut and treated well. – c/o OPARR

Page 13 Annex H&I

7. WASH Cluster

Introduction of Philippines approach to Total sanitation (PhATS) that focuses on mobilization of the community and all the stakeholders to achieve a total sanitation at HH, institutions and community level.

Page 16 Annex J

8. Food Security and Agriculture

FAO and other FSAC partners (Oxfam, ICRC, CRS, Save the Children) to scale up operations and technical assistance, mainly on:

- Fisheries rehabilitation

Page 16 Annex K

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Sector - Coco-based farming system (intercropping and livestock) - Corn and vegetable farming - Tools (hoe, shovel, machete, pumps) - Cash support - Agro-forestry and mangroves rehabilitation

Technical Working Groups created through FSAC in Tacloban and Roxas for fisheries and recovery of coconut-based livelihoods. TWGs will rovide technical guidance, replicate best practices, coordinate activities, and harmonize and monitor projects (fill-up the gaps and avoid overlaps)

Continuing Food Assistance. DSWD will work with the FSAC Cluster for the identification of vulnerable families for the continuation of food assistance. DSWD is now on its 5th round of distribution of 25 kilos of rice, 20 pieces of canned goods, 20 noodles, and 20 coffee packs.

9. Camp Coordination and Camp Management Cluster

Preparation for Future Disasters. Weather advisory warns that the typhoon that will enter the Philippine area of responsibility somewhere in June 16 will first hit the northern part of the archipelago – NCR, Region III, Central Luzon, and Northern Luzon. It doesn’t mean however that it will not go through Eastern Visayas. It is thus important to prepare and identify safe places for people to go to. The CCCM Cluster, together with NDRRMC and DILG, should identify now what still can be reinforced as safe evacuation centers in these areas.

Expectations on the Humanitarian Partners. What would be the expectation from the government on the humanitarian partners? First, whatever help/support that can be provided in terms of preparing for the next typhoon season by way of evacuation centers. Second, support and help in the prepositioning of foods, for instance, with the help of WFP, MSU tents have already been prepositioned in Davao, Clark, Cebu and Fort Magsaysay as depot of goods, food and non-food, as well as assets for rescue. Thus, the entire expectation will be the support on preparedness.

Page 17 Annex L

10. Transition of Humanitarian Clusters to OPARR-led Clusters

June 13 – conduct of workshop to facilitate the transition from the HCT clusters to the OPARR system

June 14 – HCT clusters will undertake a reprioritization and planning workshop to see how to ensure how we have a sufficient capacity and presence to support this process and the ability to deliver the support in terms of cluster coordination

OCHA to convene the INGO and NGO networks. While the clusters are folding up as a humanitarian cluster, and the coordination is being transferred to the national lead, it does not necessarily mean that the UN agencies will also leave. Because all of the UN agencies who are participating are in-country UN agencies who have already been here before Yolanda, and will be here for sometime. The information that we need is the timeline for that of the international humanitarian organizations and NGOs whom we know are operating in Region VIII because of Yolanda. But when they move out, how they transition to rehabilitation is important to know. The suggestion is for OCHA to convene the Philippine international NGO network so we can find out their plans, and so we can plan better, and know what resources are at hand. So that we also don’t duplicate what we are doing.

Present to the 6th ICC Meeting the 6-Month Monitoring Report on the Humanitarian Response – c/o OCHA

Page 18 Annex M

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DISCUSSIONS/PRESENTATIONS/UPDATES: 1. CALL TO ORDER by Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman With the permission of co-chair Ms. Luiza Carvalho, Secretary Soliman called the meeting to order at 11:00am. “Thank you everyone who came to Guiuan to attend the 5th Inter-Cluster Coordination (ICC) meeting on Typhoon Yolanda Humanitarian Response. It is important to conduct our coordination meetings in affected areas such as Guiuan, despite the distance, so that we could see among ourselves the developments of what we are doing. I also would like to acknowledge the support of Mayor Sheen Gonzales. He has been a shining inspiration to all of us and he has done so much to alleviate the immediate suffering of the Filipino people. We also acknowledge the Vice Mayor and Board members who are here representing the province.”

2. WELCOME MESSAGES 2.1 Mayor Christopher Sheen Gonzales, Guiuan, Eastern Samar "Maupay nga aga sa inyo nga tanan! Good morning to all of you! This is a very good time to welcome all of you to Guiuan. We are privileged to host the 5th ICC meeting. Today, we are all here to assess where we are in our early recovery and rehabilitation efforts; to determine where we are going to build back better from devastation; to address the gaps in our recovery journey; and to integrate our interventions and responses. For all the support given for relief, response, recovery and rehabilitation, Guiuan is thankful to:

- the national government; - the UN agencies, international organizations, and other humanitarian partners; - the humanitarian clusters; and - His Excellency Benigno Aquino.”

“We are completing the master plan for recovery and rehabilitation which we will be presenting to OPARR. Guiuan is full of hope that despite the magnitude of devastation, we can still recover. Although there are still gaps to be filled and challenges to be conquered, Guiuan will still continue to recover.” 2.2 Ms. Luiza Carvalho, UN Humanitarian Coordinator "Thank you for organizing and inviting us altogether. We are gathered here today to listen to ourselves how we are doing in terms of delivering support and thinking ahead in terms of what is most urgent that we need to be addressing. We are very happy to come with the representation of the international agencies and government. What we see is we are going towards a more inclusive group of actors that really represent the set of stakeholders that are involved in the response. The day promises to be a very long day. I welcome you all.”

3. REVIEW OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PREVIOUS INTER-COORDINATION CLUSTER MEETING1 HELD ON 19 MAY 2014 IN ORMOC CITY by ARD Resty Macuto

The highlights of the previous meeting include updates, responses and gaps presented by each humanitarian cluster. The highlights also enumerated some issues and concerns including the repair of day care centers, establishment of evacuation centers, assessment of the actual situation of the survivors, implementation of livelihood activities, and the timeline of the engagement of humanitarian agencies. To read more of the highlights of the previous meeting presented by ARD Macuto, please refer to Annex A.

1 Please refer to Annex A for the Highlights of the Previous Inter-Cluster Coordination Meeting in Ormoc City held on 19 May 2014

“Guiuan is full of hope that despite

the magnitude of devastation, we

can still recover. Although there are

still gaps to be filled and

challenges to be conquered, Guiuan

will continue to recover”

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Feedbacks/Responses: We should ask each cluster to go through the presentation of the highlights (since it has also been a

month) and to update us what is the situation today in relation to the points that have been presented there.

Please provide us such updates when you present your cluster report. If it is not included, please include what we have said during the last meeting the gaps that we should have addressed.

4. PRESENTATION OF CLUSTER UPDATES 4.1 SHELTER CLUSTER2 UPDATES presented by ARD Resty Macuto

Accomplishments Analysis of

Accomplishments Gaps/ Challenges

Way Forward

358,624 households (73%) have received emergency shelter support (tents and tarps).

116,749 households (24%) have received support to self-recovery (such as roofing solutions, core shelter, etc).

8 shelter DRR “building back safer” key messages posters were finalized, circulated and used by Shelter Cluster partners in their activities.

The guidelines for shelter recovery have been developed through a five-week interactive process with partners and governmental departments.

There has been progress in terms of support to shelter self-recovery - with more than 30,000 households supported in the last three weeks.

There has been increasing complementarity between partners providing shelter assistance, including topping up between DSWD and agencies.

There has also been increase in the number of partners providing shelter assistance in Tacloban, including DSWD.

Recent change of policy in Tacloban concerning shelter assistance in no dwelling zones;

Relocation, even for temporary shelter, should be made as a last resort/option and needs to be based on informed consent. If happening, it will take time.

Some permanent and temporary resettlement interventions may not consider full range of services, adequate site planning, access to livelihoods and sufficient individual plot area.

There is a risk for people moving back from whence they came.

Households and communities vulnerability to new disasters, with coming rainy and typhoon season, with limited prepositioned emergency shelter stock.

Gaps on procurement of shelter material from DPWH, with logistic and timely delivery challenges for DSWD programme.

The National Community Driven Development programme (NCDDP) will have its launching on June 23. International organizations and humanitarian partners are invited. Potential complementarity and partnerships are needed to maximize the impact of NCDDP.

Reports show that 81,994 households more will be supported by the Shelter Cluster.

Feedbacks/Comments: Permanent Shelter Needs Indicated in Provincial

Rehabilitation Plans. In terms of identified gaps, the government has a different number as compared with what the Shelter Cluster is working on. Based on the Friday meeting convened by OPARR, the total identified permanent shelter needs is 60,000. The data was provided by Governor Sharee Tan, Governor Petilla, and Mayor Romualdez. The data from Eastern Samar was not included because Governor Nicart was unable to attend.

2 Please refer to Annex B for the Shelter Cluster Updates as of 6 June 2014

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The construction of 60,000 permanent shelters will be funded by the national government and will be downloaded to the implementing agency/unit, e.g. NHA, DSWD, or the LGU. Just a brief background, so that you know what it means that they presented their programs, needs, and plans: Western Samar, Leyte, Northern Cebu and Tacloban have rehabilitation plans already, which were done either by the Province Planning Development Office, or done with a UN agency. In Tacloban, for example, it is done with UN Habitat and UNDP. These were the plans that were presented to OPARR, together with the pesos and centavos that are needed to make the plans implementable. So all of those plans that were presented have been approved in principle. What that means is that the money will be allocated for these programs, especially those that have common validated data with PDNA and RAY.

More than 3,000 Families Still Living in Tents Need to be Transferred by End of June. There are still more than 3,000 families living in tents in Eastern Visayas. We need to work double time to build the transitional shelters by end of June. Meaning, by end of June, these families have already been transferred to sound and safe temporary shelters. DSWD and IOM are already working on this, in coordination with the local government units.

Need For More Supplies for Shelter Kits. DSWD will continue to provide shelter kits to the affected families. The challenge, however, is the supply. DPWH is closely working with DTI on this to ensure that we will get enough supplies for shelter kits, including CGIs. If there is anybody here who knows how we can make that faster, we would welcome suggestions.

Dissemination of Disaster/Hazard Maps to Barangays/Municipalities. Additional information: Another program that is linked to the shelter cluster is the dissemination to the barangays and municipalities of disaster maps. This program is led by OCD. The maps are to be distributed in a 2x3 size. This is to help the communities understand what risk zones they are living in; and also, the whole resettlement challenges that we are facing with.

4. 2 PROTECTION CLUSTER3 UPDATES presented by Anne Landouzy-Sanders, Protection Cluster Co-

Lead, UNHCR Updates on the Protection Cluster Assessment4: One important development in Protection Cluster as compared

to the Cluster Meeting in Ormoc is that we have conducted a Protection Needs Assessment, carried out in April in Region VIII. It’s available in the Humanitarian Response Website: https://philippines.humanitarianresponse.info/assessment/protection-needs-assessment-final-results-and-analysis-may-2014.

The protection needs assessment covered a total of 95 barangays in 34 municipalities from 3 provinces in Region 8, which is 54% of the total affected municipalities in the said region.

This assessment aims to provide an overview of the protection environment of the concerned population, both the displaced and affected people, to assist to prioritize affected areas needing further protection monitoring and in-depth assessment, to provide basis for effective and targeted response based on their profile and location and to assist in monitoring the Strategic Response Plan.

The following are their key findings based on their assessment: That majority of the respondents from the community agree that protection problems remain

unchanged. But majority of the barangay officials said that the trend of serious protection problems is now stable or getting better.

That the four major protection issues at present are: lack of income generating activities, damaged shelter/HLP issues, lack of documentation, and lack of access to basic facilities.

That the IDPs in host families and IDPs in spontaneous settlements are the groups that face the biggest protection risk.

3 Please refer to Annex D for the Protection Cluster Updates as of 6 June 2014

4 Please refer to Annex C Protection Cluster’s Protection Needs Assessment Report as of May 2014

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Major hindrances to achieve durable solution are the lack of resources to rebuild houses and the fact that dwellings are located in No Build Zone areas.

The types of assistance provided to returnees by the local government are mostly food and non-food assistance.

Half of the barangays respondent (56%) felt safe and said that there are no more serious security issues. The other half expressed several reasons of insecurity such as unstable and unrepaired dwelling, possibility of storm surge and flood, no electricity at night, and occurrence of crime incidents.

Local leaders cited three major issues related to Housing, Land and Property: destruction of crops, destruction of housing property, lack of documentation (i.e. land titles). The latter is considered a serious HLP concern as it aggravates existing issues like land disputes, forced eviction, and secondary occupation which were also identified by the respondents.

Women (especially pregnant and lactating mothers), elderly and children (especially girls) are the three most vulnerable groups identified. If the majority of respondents could not cite specific protection issues affecting women and children, this can be attributed to a limited understanding on children and women protection (UASC, female HH, etc.)

Despite the presence of humanitarian assistance, a significant number of respondents expressed that they have limited access to services and humanitarian assistance because of geographical location, and limited and unequal distribution of assistance.

The majority of the respondents stated that at least half of the barangay population have lost civil documentation due to Yolanda. Financial constraint is cited as the major reason for not having civil documentation before and after Yolanda.

IDPs expressed the greater need to be informed on the following: Type of assistance, Relocation plan (including No Build Zone), and Weather.

IDPs mainly rely on local officials for information through SMS and word of mouth.

Accomplishments Analysis of

Accomplishments Gaps/

Challenges

Cluster Objective 5A: Ensure Physical Security Support to the deployment of female police

officers Protection by presence: 432protection

monitoring visits Distribution of core relief items, in particular

solar lanterns, in evacuation centers Protection training for 5,929 personnel from

Armed Forces and PNP, municipal and barangay officials and service providers.

Cluster Obj. 5B: Access to aid, information and basic services Inter-cluster mainstreaming of protection

principles Support to local registrar office for birth

registration Protection mechanisms for older people and

indigenous communities: support to NCIP, ADTF

Cluster Obj. 5C: Child protection 134 cases of UASC identified, documented

and followed up 208 CFS established 93,734 children provided with psychological

support in 45 municipalities 1,031front line workers trained on anti-

trafficking, CP in emergencies, GBV and Family tracing and reunification.

Cluster Obj. 5C: Minimize GBV risks 16 WFS established 348 awareness sessions

Recent Protection needs assessment confirmed four major protection issues:

- Lack of income-generating activities

- Damaged shelter and HLP issues

- Lack of civil documentation

- Lack of access to basic facilities

Need for further capacity-building of the CHR who is gradually taking over PC co-leadership.

On Child Protection Large numbers of

children still not receiving support: adolescents, children with disabilities, children who are working.

Need to further strengthen existing service delivery pathways and service provider’s capacities.

Policy guidelines ensuring that relocation of affected people respects HR standards

Support for LGUs to engage in a process of consultation, participation and fair selection of beneficiaries, and address all HLP-issues

Strengthened efforts on issuance/reconstruction of civil documentation .

On Child Protection Provide additional

capacity building/technical and material support to DSWD, PNP and LCPCs.

Continued advocacy with CP partners

On-going coordination and strong leadership of DSWD.

On Gender-Based Violence Increased financial

support and human resources

Advocacy at LGU level to

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17 psychosocial counseling sessions done with 931 individuals

95 capacity building sessions with service providers

20,000 hygiene kits distributed Cluster Obj. 5D: support Government policies

in relation to displacement/ resettlement in line with UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement Inter-cluster advisories on:

–Minimum standards for bunkhouses –Assistance in proposed “NDZ” –Relocation in transitional sites

Document on vulnerability criteria

Continued need for training/sensitization on protection needs of key government bodies

On Gender-Based Violence Continued efforts

needed to fully establish functional referral processes and strengthen GBV-related services.

establish inter-agency protection mechanisms with Local Council for Anti-Trafficking and Violence Against Women and their Children.

Feedbacks/Comments: Opportunity to Relate with Other Clusters. The Protection Cluster was advised to use the ICC meeting as

an opportunity to go and meet other clusters that are strategic to the said cluster and get them engaged in providing support to the cluster needs which are most crucial.

Dissemination of the Results of the Protection Needs Assessment Report. The Protection Cluster is requested to provide the cluster members a copy of such report for their information and reference.

4.3 NUTRITION CLUSTER UPDATES5 presented by Dr. Catalino P. Dotollo, Jr., Regional Nutrition Programme Coordinator, National Nutrition Council, Region VIII

Accomplishments Gaps Challenges Way Forward

Distribution of Micronutrient Powders (MNPs) - 128,673 children have received micronutrient powders to address vitamin and mineral deficiencies in Region 8

Communtity Mobilization and Screening - 303,784 children have been screened to-date across 50 municipalities in Region 8

Supplementary Feeding of children with Moderate Acute Malnturition - 2,308 moderately malnourished children have been admitted in to Supplementary Feeding Programmes in Region 8

Outpatient Treatment of Severely Malnourished Children - 519 severely malnourished children have been admitted into Outpatient Treatment Programmes

Inpatient Treatment of Severely Malnourished Children - 2 Inpatient Treatment Facilities (IPF) have been established in Ormoc and Tacloban; New IPFs are being established in Borongan and Quinapondan

Infant & Young Child Feeding Counseling - 43 Mother Baby Friendly

Endorsement/adoption of the PIMAM (Philippines Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition) Protocol

Integration of key nutrition services in the health system including a) IYCF counseling services at the health facility level, b) IYCF services lined to Mother Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (MBFHI) services.

Full implementation and compliance

Sustainability of CMAM program after exit of international partners; Integration of CMAM in health system

Low correlation between MUAC and Weight-for-Height

Geographically dispersed cases of malnutrition (i.e. GIDA areas) leading to higher resource requirements for treatment

Sub-optimal infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices in the first 2 years of life.

May 31: Handover of Cluster to National Nutrition Council (NNC)

June 01: Cluster to be led by the NNC

UNICEF to act as a secretariat to the NNC

Nutrition Cluster Coordinator training earmarked for first week of July.

Second SMART survey earmarked for September 2014.

5 Please refer to Annex E for the Nutrition Cluster Updates as of 6 June 2014

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Tents functional in Region 8 Infant & Young Child Feeding Counseling

- 55,752 pregnant and lactating women reached with infant and young child feeding (IYCF) counselling.

to EO 51, ‘milk code’.

Feedbacks/Responses: A very comprehensive and encouraging report.

Cases of Malnutrition. The nutrition cluster is requested to provide

the number of cases of malnutrition in order to determine the exact resource requirements to address this concern. If possible, make a story about this, especially that donors are manifesting additional support to address such cases.

Referral of Cases. Since there is only one inpatient treatment facility, which is located in Tacloban, there has been difficulty when it comes to referrals especially those that are coming from Eastern Samar.

4.4 HEALTH CLUSTER UPDATES6 by Dr Jean Marie Egardo, DOH PHT Team Leader, Province of Eastern Samar

Updates Priorities Issues and Concerns

Total Number of Deaths. 5,921 total number of deaths in Eastern Samar; common cause of death is trauma secondary to multiple injuries/drowning

Surveillance of Diseases. Due to the damages caused to the health facilities/structures, we are now focusing on surveillance, because the risk of having diseases after disaster is very high. With people living in the transitional dwelling sites, the vulnerability to diseases is higher.

Dengue Cases. For dengue cases, we have now received around 2,351 reported cases of dengue in Region VIII. 80% of these cases are in Leyte, 11% in Eastern Samar, 3% in Southern Leyte, 2% in Northern Samar, and 2% in Biliran. What we are doing now to control dengue outbreaks is we are conducting series of dengue brigade trainings so that we can tap the full support of the community.

Measles Cases. For measles, we have now around 600 reported cases, the highest is in Leyte, lowest is in Southern Leyte. We are now conducting immunization routine activities in all the communities. We also have a forthcoming national immunization campaign.

Mental Health and Psychosocial Support. Before Yolanda, we did not have a mental health and psychosocial support program. So mentally ill patients were either treated by private practitioners or referred to a facility for treatment. However after Yolanda, we have to be responsive to the needs of our clients. Thanks to the support of our partners – we have now a new mental health program and psychosocial support – but this is still

Rehabilitation of health facilities;

Rehabilitation of birthing facilities;

Vector control to prevent outbreak diseases;

Continued delivery of critical health services such as immunization, cold chain management, facility-based deliveries, and TB detection and treatment;

Mental health and psychosocial support;

Repair of barangay health stations, rural health units, and hospitals.

On Reproductive Health.

- Enhanced monitoring of reproductive health services;

- Need to strengthen monitoring of maternal & neonatal death;

- Need to enhance referral system to include Reproductive health.

On Mental Health and Psychosocial Support.

- Focused on community-based care;

- Mental Health referral system needs enhancement;

- Access to psychotropic drugs needs sustainability;

- Registry of Mental Health Patients in Region VIII needs to be properly conducted and sustained.

6 Please refer to Annex F for the Health Cluster Updates as of 6 June 2014

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for roll out to other Provinces. For Eastern Samar, we have a newly launched mental health program which we call project LUISS “Lusog Isip para sa Silangang Samar”. We have trained our local health workers to diagnose and manage these cases.

Dengue Outbreaks. Outbreaks of dengue and other infectious diseases can still be a real risk.

Updates on the Quick Fix Project:

1. What is the status of the quick fix project? Out of 180 quick fix projects in the Region, only 6 projects have been completed which are found in Leyte. The others are still ongoing.

2. The objective of the Quick Fix Project is to bring back access to health services to pre-Yolanda health level.

3. Facilities on “not started” status means DAEDs on preparation or procurement process in progress 4. Some heath facilities with complete Quick Fix still needs further rehabilitation to ensure resiliency 5. Some health facility needs to be relocated to higher and safer

grounds as some are within the NO BUILD ZONES 6. LGU still to secure lot for relocation of health facilities 7. Fast tracking of LGU procurement of infrastructure works

Feedbacks/Responses: Congratulations to the Health Cluster for the excellent job done since

the beginning.

No Outbreaks of Any Disease So Far. It is impressive that there were no outbreaks so far of any disease in the Yolanda affected areas. Much smaller events than Yolanda have resulted in some outbreaks. However, in Yolanda, there were none. So this is a reason to celebrate.

Timeline of the Implementation of the Quick Fix Projects. Is it possible for the quick fix projects to be implemented within five months? The bottleneck is in the preparation of the detailed engineering architectural designs done by the LGUs. As soon as they complete that, they submit that to DOH Regional Office for approval. Should there be additional engineers hired within the LGU level, this project could have been implemented quickly.

Secretary’s Update: Just for the information of everyone, DPWH, under OPARR, will have additional funds from World Bank partnerships where they can hire engineers for the Local Government Units. So hopefully, that can fast track the project. (applause)

4.5 EDUCATION CLUSTER UPDATES7 presented by Mr. Reynaldo Nayre, Department of Education;

Krishnakumar Palanisamy, Save the Children; Matthew Swift, UNICEF

Accomplishments Challenges/ Gaps/ Way Forward

Brigada Eskwela. We have recently conducted Brigada Eskwela. This aims to cater the needs of our school children before the opening of classes. We were able to mobilize a number of volunteers and donations. Last year, we were able to generate 6.9 million volunteers, and 2 billion worth of resources. For 2014, we are still gathering data. Hopefully for the next ICC meeting, we can already report the number of resources generated for our Brigada Eskwela.

Ensuring coordination among Education Cluster partners and the DepEd for the on-going repair and reconstruction of schools:

Partially Damaged Classrooms – 6,859/14,800 Totally Damaged Classrooms – 1,655/3,009

- The remaining GAP is estimated by the DepEd to be 4,000 classrooms beyond current plans of DepEd/DPWH for repairs

- GAP of over 2,000 DCCs in need of repair and reconstruction from a total of 3,100partially and totally damaged DCCs

- Maintain TLS and providing make-shift classrooms while on-going repairs are taking place

7 Please refer to Annex G for the Education Cluster Updates as of 6 June 2014

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Establishment and Repair of Classrooms and Day Care Centers. Over 4,300 temporary learning classrooms have already been established. 414 Day Care Centers are being repaired/rehabilitated by partners. DSWD and DILG are planning to repair/rehabilitate 571 more day care centers.

Teaching/Learning Materials. Over 520,000 children and teachers received teaching, learning and recreational materials.

Trainings. 3,900 education and day care centre personnel were trained on education in emergencies topics (DRR, PSS, EiE).

Summer Fun Schools. Education Cluster Partners assisted the DepEd in the Summer Fun Schools (catch-up learning) program in Region VIII during over the summer holidays in 21 Schools across Region VIII.

Back-to-Learning Campaign. Schools re-opened on 2nd June. The Back-to-Learning campaign was launched in May and encouraged all children to return to school focusing on safe schools and DRR messages.

Welcome to Day Care Centers Campaign. Cluster partners launched the “Welcome to Day Care Centers” campaign in Salcedo and Borongan on 9th June.

Strengthened Coordination Capacity. Strengthening coordination capacity of the DepEd at regional and provincial/school division level as the cluster transitions to divisional level coordination ; Assisting the DepEd in creating the training package of Front Line Responders (FLRT) training; On-going Coordination, IM training and Education in Emergencies (EiE) training

Schools being used as evacuation centers: - Advocate for the relocation of families from the

remaining 2 schools in Tacloban City and 2 schools in Tanauan (a total of about 1,200 families. Currently we are working with CCCM and shelter cluster to relocate those families.)

- Guidance/advocacy messages to be developed on the use of schools as evacuation centers (DSWD/DepEd/DILG) for the future

46 day care centers in Tacloban City have not been re-opened.

- Work towards advocating DCC worker allowance/ honorarium and the ECCD working Group is developing a briefing paper on that issue

- Prioritising activities for the opening of DCCs - Advocate with the City of Tacloban for the

resumption of Day Care Workers Salaries for the upcoming opening of DCCs on 9th June.

Out-of-school and at-risk children (relocation sites, especially youth)

- DepEd, DSWD and partners are closely monitoring attendance and children out of school or at risk and are developing a strategy for their reintegration to school.

- Supporting DepEd to track of transferred/displacement and support for reintegration of children out of school and enroll in new schools. With the involvement of the Protection and CCCM Clusters

Joint Education / CP Assessment Key Recommendations

- Education in emergencies should be streamlined in teacher training, incorporating child protection in emergencies, training on psychosocial debriefing in case of disaster.

- Improved School planning / contingency planning to prepare school for disaster, for the relocation of students, building damage etc

- On-going need psychosocial support to children - Response should not just focus on provision of

learning supplies; also balanced approach for quality of education

Feedbacks/Responses:

Provision of 1,000 Temporary Classrooms by the Tzu Chi Foundation. In the courtesy call that was made by the Tzu Chi Foundation to the President, Tzu Chi will be providing 1,000 temporary classrooms to Region VIII. The temporary classrooms will be made of light materials, and not combustible. They will be installed in areas where they will be most needed.

Tracking of Out-of-School Youth. DepEd should convene a TWG, to be composed of TESDA, DOLE, and DSWD, in order to track and monitor the status of the out-of-school youth and provide the necessary interventions and support to them.

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Psycho-Social Support for Parents and Children through Family Development Sessions. Not only the children should be given psycho-social support, the parents too. They need to be counselled with their children. There are possibilities that they transmit their fears to their children. The CCT beneficiaries of DSWD will be conducting family development sessions twice a month, focusing on psycho-social sessions. This is to provide them the venue to ease and articulate their fears.

4.6 EARLY RECOVERY AND LIVELIHOOD CLUSTER UPDATES8 presented by Maurice Dewulf, Jeremie Toussaint, and Adam Marlatt, UNDP, Joe Pilapil, PCA

Overview of the Presentation of the ER&L Cluster Updates: We have four subjects to cover in 12 minutes. Analysis on Achievements. The first point is

where we are with our target indicators in early recovery and livelihood, emergency employment, rehabilitation buildings, etc.

Tree Clearance Plan. The second point is we would like to introduce rapidly a new program. A major program which affects up to 200,000 livelihoods which have been developed over the last two weeks with the PCA, DSWD, and military. This is about finally implementing the removal of coconut trees.

Transition from Early Recovery to Livelihood. The third point is the issue on transition. The early recovery cluster stands today in the middle of the bridge. One side of the bridge, we all have our humanitarian clusters sisters and brothers. Then on the other side, we have our recovery clusters. Our cluster is an early recovery cluster, but on the other side of the bridge, we see our early recovery cluster moving ahead. So we will have a discussion later as to how as a cluster we position ourselves to be either part of the one side of the bridge or the other side of the bridge, or the middle of the bridge.

Updates on the Early Recovery and Livelihood: Analysis on Achievements

Gaps and Challenges Way Forward

Cash for Work/Emergency Employment by Government and Humanitarian Agency. Government agencies have served 89,834 beneficiaries, while humanitarian agencies have served 93,428 beneficiaries. Analysis: This is really interesting. Because we can see that the government programs are moving. If we look at Region VIII for example, government has already implemented 83,754 beneficiaries when the humanitarian agencies have reached 67,887.

Consolidation of OPARR Data Collection Forms. We have consolidated OPARR data collection forms from 13 government livelihood cluster members to DTI.

Onward Support Requested by DTI from UNDP. Established reporting mechanism; Developed and consolidated livelihoods activities database; Training of focal point persons (all government cluster members; Database management and reporting capacity building

Need to intensify livelihood support activities: Skills Training and Enterprise Development Support. - Only 20% of SME’s

active (compared to same figure last year)

- 76% increase in employment

- Technical vocational skills training must be driven by private sector demand

Investing in Government frontline service for access to basic services

Support to small and medium enterprise recovery

Issue of livelihoods on resettlement areas

Provincial Recovery and Livelihoods Plans approved by the Government

Plans will serve as framework and guiding instrument

Main support to OCHA and UNDP to support OPARR and Provinces

Main objectives: a) Ensure

coordinated delivery, and

b) Better interface with province-led efforts

8 Please refer to Annex H for the Early Recovery and Livelihood Cluster Updates as of 6 June 2014

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TREE CLEARANCE PLAN (DSWD, PCA, DA, DND, OPARR, UNDP, FAO)9 Background. Before Yolanda, we used to be the top three producing Region in the entire country. We

have an average of 2 billion nuts a year, equivalent to 500 metric tons of copra. After Yolanda, PCA deployed progressively chainsaws to municipalities badly hit by the typhoon in order to clear the fallen and standing trees that cannot anymore survive. Although the total number of affected trees is 33 million, 13 million of which is considered totally damaged.

Objective: As we reach the end of the current 90-day programme, the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) and partners will accelerate the removal and processing of 6 million trees in Leyte, Samar and Eastern Samar over the next six months.

Beneficiaries. Who? Most vulnerable population and small to medium enterprise farmers. How? Assistance through debris clearance, cash-for-work and resale of wood.

Current Workforce. Over 550 chainsaw operators from the completed 90-day intervention; Over 450 new chainsaw operators; Over 200 chainsaw operators from NGOs; and 500 sawyers on standby for chainsaw delivery.

Responsibilities. For PCA: a) procure chainsaws and consumables, b) employ chainsaw workers for project, c) manage overall clearing operations, d) manage safety during implementation. For DSWD: a) work with local government units to procure personal protective equipment, b) employ CFW workers, c) coordinate with LGUs, and d) provide rice and tents. For DND: a) transport of supplies, b) camp management of workers’ sites, c) security of working sites, and d) logistics.

Processes. As mentioned the program is now phasing to after 90 days where we plan to cut 390,000 trees. This is a combined effort led by PCA, integrating assets from DSWD, AFP, DND. This is primarily thru taking the sawyers teams which have been centralized from Palo where they have been working for 90 days, and have already begun being spread in 15 kilometer stretches across the national highways to begin cutting in the expanded areas. This is accomplished thru the actual cutting teams, augmented by the CFW to move these trees to the side of the road where the farmers can sell them for additional cash assistance. As well as the military aspect providing security, transportation, and AFP side thru the air force through ground logistics once the team of PCA is reached. The way that this is being accomplished is they have expanded the zones to cover areas where the 6 million trees can be recovered. Not only cleared from the field. But actually then re-use them to a form factor that is value-added for the individual farmer. So the farmer maintains possession and control of the trees. Once they are cleared from the field, the PCA can come in to begin the replanting process. While the farmers can have that tree for additional cash assistance.

External support. FAO is allowing PCA to reallocate funds that would normally be for the replanting of alternative crops which actually freed up additional budget space for PCA to expand this operation. On top of that, UNDP is providing technical assistance at the national level, as well as monitoring evaluation, with the actual private buyers and connecting small farmers with large buyers. And additionally, starting tomorrow, the UNDP program will be training 1,000 chainsaw operators over the next four weeks to muster the scale the PCA needs to accomplish for this program.

Private Sector Integration. Private sector support is a key aspect. There are two aspects. As discussed earlier, the initial aspect is the clearance of these fields. So that’s incredibly valuable aspect of the program. Just because without these trees being cleared from the land, the farmers cannot begin their recovery process. So there are some areas that are much farther behind in the rural setting, than most of the urban areas are. The second aspect of that is the actual value added production that the PCA has been providing by cutting these trees. Its cost prohibited for majority of these farmers to procure a chainsaw, or to hire an operator to do it. Because it costs about 4-5 pesos per board foot to have a chainsaw operator to come on Yolanda to cut it. So from one tree, it would cost them roughly a thousand pesos just to cut it. PCA is coming in, and for the cost of P400, they are cutting the tree, but the farmer doesn’t have to pay for that at all. The farmer gets the value added aspect of that and they could engage with the private sector for that end product.

9 Please refer to Annex I for the Presentation re: Tree Clearance Plan

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End Products - Lumber. We’re working with NHA, and trying to identify the suitability of using it as a building

material. The reason is that there is not enough data right now as far as the structural capacity of this wood is concerned. But it would make sense if we could utilize this wood in the rebuilding process because it’s locally available and there’s so much that the farmers can benefit from without having to import additional products.

- Bio-charcoal - Wood pellets. We are looking at using the waste materials/ left over trees to be used to fuel a 500-

megawatt powerplant. Tree Procurement. The actual tree procurement process, as far as the PCA is concerned, is engaging with

the private sector, assisting in the mapping where these actual trees are located, certifying that the actual private sector entities are legally engaging with the owner of the trees, and facilitating large quantity buying in the procurement. Additionally, PCA is setting up a one stop shop which is geared at making the lives easier for the private sectors that are coming in to procure these trees at volume.

Projected Beneficiaries. 242,500 direct beneficiaries comprising of 2,500 sawyers, 60,000 CFW workers, 180,000 farmers (3 per hectare cleared); and 1,091,250 indirect beneficiaries.

Program Site Visits (PCA). June 12 in Leyte. June 13 in Samar. Everyone is invited to see the actual operations.

Feedbacks/Responses: Establishment of Productivity Centers. A suggestion was raised that establishment of productivity

centers should also be considered in the construction of permanent shelters. For instance, if there is a projection to build 5,000 houses, at least 200 of which should be constructed as productivity centers. This is because even if the shelters are provided to the affected families, but if they have no area where they can implement their livelihood activities, the recovery will still be difficult for them. This was affirmed by Secretary Soliman and assured the cluster that she will advocate this to the national government and make this clear to the NHA with regard to the resettlement sites.

75%-25% Productivity Share. PCA is ensuring that the tenants will be protected from any negative retribution from that utilization. Next week, there will be a follow-up meeting with the private sector to address exactly how would this work.

Oversupply of Timber. There has been a fear that there will be an oversupply of timber. Our experts are saying that 6 million trees are enough to produce 500,000 timber. The challenge is how to bring these to those in charge of the shelter support cluster in order to make the correct use of the timbers. We also have to ensure that we have the best woods we need for the permanent shelter. It is important that there is quality control in the chain of cutting so we can retain the best part.

Secretary’s Suggestion: OPARR should convene the shelter, food, and early recovery and livelihood clusters in order to discuss the needs for permanent shelter, in order that we know where to bring in the timbers, with the caveat that they should be cut and treated well.

Shortfall in Resources. While this program is targeting immediately 250,000 of the poorest people in the region, and although the PCA is 90% confident that this Program can work, there is still a shortfall in the resources. We know that DSWD has provided 250 million pesos. PCA is hoping that it can be doubled in order to fully implement this program.

Secretary’s Update: We still have funds for CFW. The reason why it is not being disbursed yet because this is part of the overall rehabilitation plan of OPARR which we hope to get a final approval on or before the early part of the third week of June. Once it is approved, the money will be given. But in the meantime, we still have the capacity to bring out 1 or 2 million funds for CFW in the Eastern Visayas.

Cash for Asset Program for Eastern Visayas. Additional information: The WFP, in partnership with DSWD, DA and PCA, has just launched a Cash for Asset Program for Eastern Visayas involving 1,500 families. This started last 26th of March and is expected to end July 31st. We are also partnering with the PCA for the cutting of the coconut trees. And we’re also introducing inter-cropping and PCA is providing inputs for that one.

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Financing Micro-Credit Finance Institutions in Eastern Visayas. Secretary’s Update: Two billion pesos have been approved and infused to five micro-credit finance institutions for Eastern Visayas. They will retail out to 400,000 clients already existing of these micro-institutions in Eastern Visayas. We will call for a meeting on this, involving those who are involved in the livelihood.

4.7 WASH CLUSTER UPDATES10 presented by Prem Chand, Sub-National WASH Cluster Coordinator

for Eastern Samar, UNICEF

Achievements Response and Gaps Challenges Way Forward

Key Highlights: - Full baseline survey - 2,497 Brgys in

80 municipalities full wash picture - 67% current average access to

private latrines – with a varying decrease of 2% in Capiz to 12% in Samar since storm.

- Problem of sanitation existed pre-typhoon but increase in vulnerability represents increased public health risk

- As thousands latrines constructed sewage management and treatment infrastructure needs to be a government priority.

- It was found that 33% of Barangays rely solely on L1 water systems, cluster focus to improve access to L2 systems and or HH Water treatment

Over-All Yolanda WASH Accomplishments: - 445,852 individuals in

barangays/camps with established committee/group with a mandate covering WASH

- 1,812,906 individuals given with hygiene kits

- 219,679 individuals served by household/communal and EC latrines

- 685,679 individuals served by new/rehabilitated water systems (levels 1, 2, and 3)

- 1,428,271 individuals served with water kits

Shift of Focus. Nearly all of the emergency water supply interventions have come to an end and focus has shifted to improving water infrastructure and system management with priority being given to L1 and L2 systems.

Water Quality Samples. Recent water quality samples in Leyte and Samar found 71% of the L1 water samples positive to coliform contamination, highlighting the importance of water quality programming, household treatment and strong hygiene promotion.

Household and Communal Latrines. An estimated 10,457 household and communal latrines have been constructed/ rehabilitated

Lack of sewer treatment and management infrastructure to support huge number of HH latrines with lined septic tanks

Heavy reliance on the subsidized sanitation at HH level

Limited organizations working on WASH

Availability of low cost sanitation materials and technology

WASH is a low priority in development agenda

Introduction of Philippines approach to Total sanitation (PhATS)

That focusses on mobilization of the community and all the stakeholders to achieve a total sanitation at HH, institutions and community level.

Eastern Samar alone has received 129 nominations for Zero Open Defecation (ZOD) Barangays

4.8 FOOD SECURITY AND AGRICULTURE CLUSTER UPDATES11

Accomplishments Planned and Current Activities

Almost 3,657,200 people have received emergency food assistance (mostly targeted by WFP/DSWD)

765,680 individuals were reached using cash mainly by WFP/DSWD

FAO and other FSAC partners (Oxfam, ICRC, CRS, Save the Children) scaling up operations and technical assistance, mainly on: - Fisheries rehabilitation - Coco-based farming system (intercropping

and livestock)

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Please refer to Annex J for the WASH Cluster Updates as of 6 June 2014 11

Please refer to Annex K for the FSA Cluster Updates as of 6 June 2014

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Approximately 56,640 families received agricultural inputs – rice seeds, fertilizers - in time for Dec/Jan planting season (80% reached through FAO)

Total hectares of land planted is about 63, 234 ha in Region VIII and 7,000 hectares in Region VI

Agricultural inputs were distributed in 62 affected municipalities in RVIII and 59 municipalities in RVI.

Harvesting of the rice seeds provided is currently ongoing and near completion.

- Corn and vegetable farming - Tools (hoe, shovel, machete, pumps) - Cash support - Agro-forestry and mangroves rehabilitation

Technical Working Groups created through FSAC in Tacloban and Roxas for fisheries and recovery of coconut-based livelihoods. TWGs provide technical guidance, best practices, and coordinate activities, harmonize and monitor projects (fill-up the gaps and avoid overlaps)

Feedback/Response: Continuing Food Assistance. Secretary’s Suggestion: We hope to work with the FSAC Cluster for the

identification of vulnerable families for the continuation of our food assistance. We are now on our 5th round of distribution of 25 kilos of rice, 20 pieces of canned goods, 20 noodles, and 20 coffee packs.

4.9 CAMP COORDINATION AND CAMP MANAGEMENT CLUSTER UPDATES12 presented by ARD Resty

Macuto

Status What would LGUs do if there will be a typhoon

tomorrow? Shortages and Risks

634 EC assessed in 10 most affected municipalities on Samar Island (April 2014).

26% of ECs (166 ECs) of evacuation centres identified as completely destroyed or had suffered catastrophic structural damage, necessitating complete reconstruction.

66% of ECs (415 ECs) also currently unusable due to moderate/severe damage and due to the absence of thorough rehabilitation

8% of ECs (53 ECs) are still usable as they sustained no or minor damages (especially in General MacArthur).

This was asked to 46 barangay captains in Guiuan.

196 buildings potentially usable as evacuation centre identified (including “informal EC”)

68% of assessed evacuation buildings are considered “safe” and sustained minor damages or no damage.

Most oft-cited usable evacuation buildings are private residences (44% of ECs) – small building, short-term capacity, often located on coastlines.

In case of typhoon, all informal and formal only 37% of Guiuan's mainland population (14,491 out of 39,646) will be theoretically able to seek refuge in ECs.

40 informal ECs (1 in 5) are located less than 50m from the coastline, potentially increasing their vulnerability and exposure to major hazards.

Need to be very cautious when “informal” evacuation centres are identified/mapped as this does not necessarily indicate that the building is safe.

In 10 of the barangays with the highest deficit of ECs, only 20% of the barangay population will be able to seek refuge in an EC, including areas where families are living in bunkhouses or in tents.

In the Municipality of Guiuan, here is the current capacity of the Evacuation Centers vis-a-viz number of population within particular barangay: (P – Population, C – Capacity)

Baras –P: 1464; C: 50 Lupok – P: 2198; C:100 Poblacion Ward 6 – P:1962, C:150 Sulangan – P:3742, C:351 Timala – P:407; C:50 Cogon – P:1192; C:200 Holywood – P:1970; C:350 Compoyong – P:1669; C:300

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Ngolos – P:1297; C:250 Poblacion Ward 8 – P:2244; C:450

Feedbacks/Responses: Preparation for Future Disasters. We have been warned that the typhoon that will enter the Philippine

area of responsibility somewhere in June 16 will first hit the northern part of the archipelago – NCR, Region III, Central Luzon, and Northern Luzon. It doesn’t mean however that it will not go through Eastern Visayas. It is thus important to prepare and identify safe places for people to go to. The CCCM Cluster, together with NDRRMC and DILG, should identify now what still can be reinforced as safe evacuation centers in these areas.

Expectations on the Humanitarian Partners. What would be the expectation from the government on the humanitarian partners? First, whatever help/support that can be provided in terms of preparing for the next typhoon season by way of evacuation centers. Second, support and help in the prepositioning of foods, for instance, with the help of WFP, MSU tents have already been prepositioned in Davao, Clark, Cebu and Fort Magsaysay as depot of goods, food and non-food, as well as assets for rescue. Thus, the entire expectation will be the support on preparedness.

5. Other Matters 5. 1 Timeline of Engagement of UN Agencies in the “Yolanda”-Affected Areas13 by Mr. David Carden,

Head of Office, UN OCHA

Humanitarian Clusters Transition Plan in Regions VI and VIII

Issues/ Concerns/ Clarifications

Next Steps

For Region VI – Six (6) clusters have already closed and most of the remaining clusters are preparing to phase-out during the second half of the year

For Region VIII – Two (2) clusters have phased-out, one (1) is in transition phase, eight (8) are preparing for deactivation by the end of the year

For more information, please refer to Annex M. Caveat: Just because the cluster does not have

physical presence in a certain location, it does not mean that support will not continue to be provided. The WHO, for instance, expressed that although they are no longer physically present in Region VII, they still continue the support, although the coordinating function of the cluster is being carried out by the Regional Health Office. Information management assistance is also being provided across Regions as well.

Note: This presentation is only preliminary. The workshops on June 13-14 will hopefully finetune the transition towards rehabilitation.

How do we transition the humanitarian clusters under the UN system into the rehabilitation clusters led by OPARR. We need to find our way how we can integrate our efforts towards recovery and rehabilitation.

June 13 – conduct of workshop to facilitate the transition from the HCT clusters to the OPARR system

June 14 – HCT clusters will undertake a reprioritization and planning workshop to see how to ensure how we have a sufficient capacity and presence to support this process and the ability to deliver the support in terms of cluster coordination

Feedbacks/Responses: Sector-Specific Complementation. The question regarding the cluster that we will use when we move to

the rehabilitation is the cluster under OPARR. For example, the Protection Cluster on humanitarian response will be under the Social Services Cluster of OPARR. The Shelter Cluster will be under the Resettlement Cluster of OPARR. The June 13 meeting is a first step on clarifying how we transition the HCT

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Please refer to Annex M for OCHA’s Presentation on the Timeline of Engagement of UN Agencies in the “Yolanda”-Affected Areas

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clusters to OPARR. But we have already sector specific complementation that we need to work on to get to the details so that we translate this to a program of work.

OCHA to convene the INGO and NGO networks. While the clusters are saying are folding up as a

humanitarian cluster, and the coordination is being transferred to the national lead, it does not necessarily mean that the international agencies or the UN agencies will leave. Because all of the UN agencies who are participating are in-country UN agencies who have already been here before Yolanda, and will be here for sometime. The information that we need is the timeline for international humanitarian organizations and NGOs. Because we know that some of them are operating here because of Yolanda. But when they move out, how they transition to rehabilitation is important to know. The suggestion is for OCHA to convene the Philippine international NGO network so we can find out their plans, and so we can plan better, and know what resources are at hand. So that we also don’t duplicate what we are doing.

5.2 Presentation of Region VIII IDP Profiles using DSWD’s Disaster Assistance and Family Access Card

(DAFAC)14 by ARD Resty Macuto

Disaster Assistance Family Access Card: Profiling of 243,501 families affected by Typhoon Yolanda in Biliran, Eastern Samar, Leyte, and (Western)

Samar in Region VIII Survey was done from November 2013 to January 2014 Encoding was completed with the support from IOM Region VIII IDP Profiles: Family Headship by Gender: 74% male; 26% female Pantawid Beneficiary: 82% Pantawid; 18% non-Pantawid Families with Vulnerable Individuals: 78% older persons; 16% lactating mothers; 0.05% persons with

disabilities Housing Condition: 53% totally damaged; 47% partially damaged For the complete results of the survey, please refer to Annex N. Feedback/Response: Database for Targeting of Vulnerable Families. We (DSWD) have done this so that we have a database

that we can use specifically for targeting the most vulnerable –the lactating mothers, the old, the children - so that we can now make sure that the kind of support that we give is more targeted and responsive to their needs.

6. Closing Remarks UN-HCT side thru Ms. Luiza Carvalho: It has been a very rich and fruitful discussion. We are leaving

here with a to-do-list which is quite big. But with the feeling that we are seeing more and more how the response is consolidating. And we are having instruments to show. The pick-up of the governmental response was clear. This is very encouraging to see the very great numbers on the board. I think what we’re going to do is to work very hard on the response. We will systematize and share with you the way forward for each issue that we have been discussing here.

I think the next meeting we’ll be able to present the 6-month monitoring report on the humanitarian response. And how we can do that at the Manila level, or our level, we’ll share that with you.

So I look forward to the meeting on the 13th and 14th. You have all the excellent elements to come up and guide us on what are your best proposals on the way ahead.

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Please refer to Annex N for the Presentation on Region VIII IDP Profiles using DSWD’s DAFAC

“Thank you very much for the

presence of everyone. You are the ones that are pushing hard. We are

inspired by the work you are doing.”

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Thank you for your presence. Thank you Sec Dinky. Your team is excellent. Thank you Mayor Sheen, your example is always stimulating us. Thank you very much for the presence of everyone. You are the ones that are pushing hard. We are inspired by the work you are doing.

Government side thru Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman: On the government side, we will continue to communicate with each other. It is important to coordinate on very urgent matters. That on the upcoming typhoon season. Making sure

we are prepared with the ECs. And that the clusters involved in moving 3,000 plus families into four walls and roofs from the tents hasten and make faster. Those are the two urgent things. So that the health concerns will be lessened.

Inspired. So much has happened. I encourage everyone who has information dissemination facilities to the public to make this go out and to make people know the numbers.

7. Distribution of Certificates/ Adjournment Certificates of appreciation to the guests were distributed. Meeting adjourned at 3:00pm. Field visits at Buyayawan chainsaw project site, public market, boat garage, and boat making site ensued.

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