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Super Typhoon Haiyan Strategic Response Plan
(EDUCATION)
© A. Cairola/UNESCO
Psychosocial support to Secondary Schools system affected by Typhoon
Yolanda in the Visayas, Philippines
Background: disability. Special attention will be paid • Align to the Government’s gender
to life-skills programmes that address policy and fulfillment of CEDAW.
The education sector in the Visayas, emergency specific needs, such as health
particularly the eastern islands, was and hygiene promotion.
severely impacted by Typhoon Haiyan. Performance Indicators
Department of Education (DepEd) Project Objectives: • Department of Education (DepEd),
reported that 18 school divisions in secondary schools and local
Region IV-B, VI, VII and VIII are hardest • Provide education authorities with
communities area able to respond to
hit and are identified as priority areas for the knowledge and tools emergency
psychosocial impact of Haiyan
response. Over 1,850 public schools have response planning and management
been reported to be damaged; these using the Inter-Agency Network for • Referral system is functional to address
schools had a total pre-crisis enrollment of Education in Emergencies (INEE) post-disaster stress in schools
1,318,654 and a total of 41,014 teachers, Minimum Standards for Education in
• At least 350 trained individuals to
the large majority women. Of the total Emergencies, Chronic Crises and Early
assist school teachers and students
number in children enrolled in school, Reconstruction.
52 percent were girls and 48 percent • Gender-sensitive and environment-
• Support female and male students and
boys while 72 percent were enrolled in friendly knowledge and tools
educational personnel with gender
elementary school and 28 percent in developed as modules for psychosocial
sensitive, quality knowledge, skills and
secondary. Net enrolment rates in the interventions
effective tools to address post-disaster
Visayas ranged between 89-96 percent needs.
at elementary level, and between 55-58
percent at secondary level (public and
Major Partners:
private schools combined), with slightly Key activities: • DepEd Bureau of Secondary Education
higher rates for girls at both levels,
• Identify a cohort of relevant partners • Local academic institutions
indicating underlying gender issues.
from DepEd;
• Local government units
The main strategy to support restoring • Develop and adapt relevant material
access to education is by establishing • Community groups/organizations
and tools related to Education in
temporary learning spaces (TLS) and Emergencies (EiE) and INEE standards;
debris clearing and minor repair to
• Conduct a series of EiE and INEE Proposed budget (USD)
school buildings, in collaboration
selected MS Training of Trainers (ToT)
with local government, communities, Total budget $900,000
trainings;
and the Early Recovery and WASH
clusters. Another is the psychosocial • Oversee the roll out of EiE,
support to deal with the emotional Psychosocial Support and DRR
distress of teachers and students, in teachers trainings;
collaboration with child protection,
including attention to mitigating age
and sex specific vulnerabilities and risks
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Super Typhoon Haiyan Strategic Response Plan
(MEDIA)
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Emergency Support to the Recovery of Local Media and Humanitarian
Information Capacity in the Typhoon Corridor
Background: • Mainstream efforts to integrate • Post-disaster Gender Based Violence
into the international humanitarian (GBV) reduced and young people
The first assessments by the Com- response best practices on participate in media recovery;
municating with Disaster Affected Communication for Development
Communities (CDAC) Network states that • Pluralist, independent and professional
(C4D), the UN Action Plan on Safety of
“media and communication infrastructure media sector rehabilitated and
Journalists, and the Global Alliance for
have largely been destroyed leaving little operating safely
Media and Gender.
or no access in affected areas to internet,
radio, TV or newspapers. Affected people Major Partners:
are reporting that information needs are Key activities:
not being met e.g. on critical life saving • Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng
• Rehabilitate licensed media outlets for
information about available aid, missing Pilipinas (Association of Broadcasters)
humanitarian broadcasting;
relatives, protection and health issues
• National Union of Journalists of the
and evacuation and recovery planning. • Emergency capacity building of
Philippines
Mappings on the status of the local and reporters about lifesaving information;
community radio stations, undertaken • Asian Institute for Journalism and
• Establish new community media
by specialized organizations, are showing Communication
outlets and women’s radio for
that in the affected areas at least three
humanitarian information; • Philippine Press Institute
fourth of the radio stations are either
non-active or have not known status, and • Support coordination mechanisms • Center for Media Freedom and
most of the media practitioners are out among media development actors and Responsibility
of job. aid agencies based on UN C4D best
practices, the UN Action Plan on Safety
Project Objectives: of Journalists, and the UNESCO Global Proposed budget (USD)
Alliance for Media and Gender
• Support restoration of community Total $640,000
information services to coordinate and
manage the humanitarian response, Performance Indicators
reduce risks and increase resilience;
• Public, local and community media
• Sustain rehabilitation of public, local resume activities to produce relevant
and community media sectors to and accurate information for the
produce locally-relevant and accurate recovery efforts;
information;
• Empowered local populations through
• Support local media practitioners, with enhanced access to information;
focus on female media professionals;
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Super Typhoon Haiyan Strategic Response Plan
(DISASTER RISK REDUCTION)
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Rebuilding of observing systems and agency capacities for Coastal Extreme
Events in the Visayas
Background: Project Objectives: Performance Indicators
Shortly before Typhoon Haiyan entered • Foster partnership with the • 4 sea level stations are transmitting
the Philippine area of responsibility on National Mapping and Resource data every 5 minutes for early warning
November 6, the Philippine Atmospheric Information Authority (NAMRIA), purposes and are available worldwide
Geophysical and Astronomical Services and the Philippine Atmospheric via Global Training Strategt (GTS) and
Administration (PAGASA) raised Public Geophysical and Astronomical the Intergovenmental Oceanographic
Storm Warning Signal (PSWS) No.1, the Services Administration (PAGASA), Commission (IOC) Sea Level
lowest of four levels, for much of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Monitoring Facility;
Visayas and Mindanao. As the storm Seismology (PHIVOLCS), Office of Civil
• Training on Standard Operating
continued to approach the country, Defense (OCD) and national and local
Procedures (SOPs) for extreme
warnings expanded into Luzon and governments.
coastal events has been delivered
increased in severity for eastern areas.
• Improve early warning systems and to 300 officers and local leaders in
By the evening of November 7, PSWS
enhance analysis of data for public Philippines, of which 100 will be given
No. 4, the highest level of warning which
dissemination. to women local leaders.
indicates winds in excess of 185 km/h (115
mph) are expected, was raised for Biliran Implementation strategy phasing out is
Island, Eastern Samar, Leyte, northern expected during July August 2014. Major Partners:
Cebu, Metro Cebu, Samar, and Southern
Leyte. Through November 8, the day the • National Mapping and Resource
Information Authority (NAMRIA)
storm made landfall, the coverage of Key activities:
PSWS No. 4 continued to expand, with • Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical
areas in southern Luzon being included. • Provide National Mapping and
and Astronomical Services
Resource Information Authority
Administration (PAGASA)
Although there was sufficient information (NAMRIA) technical support for
on the likelihood of storm surge as a restoring instrumentation for • Philippine Institute of Volcanology and
consequence of a cyclone such as Typhoon observing the sea level for monitoring Seismology (PHIVOLCS)
Haiyan, there was little evidence as to floods, typhoons, and tsunamis, and
• Office of Civil Defense (OCD)
how technical warning messages have secure safe navigation;
been translated to layman understanding • National and local government units
• Strengthen Standard Operating
so that local people could appropriately Procedures, among institutions, inside
understand this early warning from the institutions and at community level, to Proposed budget (USD)
government. Although national and local deal with Extreme Events. Priority will
news reported that storm surge would be given to women local leaders for Total $577,800
likely to happen, thousands of casualties SOP trainings.
were recorded, mainly caused by 20-
foot waves that hit Tacloban City and its
neighboring municipalities.
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Super Typhoon Haiyan Strategic Response Plan
(SHELTER)
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Building Back Resilient Infrastructure through Innovative Design and
Revision of Infrastructure Codes
Background: typhoon-affected regions face increasing Performance Indicators
risks from extreme weather events, sea
The typhoon caused incredible de- level rise, and flooding, and that there is a • Beneficiaries: Over 15 million affected
struction to shelter and housing in many need to build back resilient infrastructure. and vulnerable communities
communities along its path. Inferior All coastal areas of the Philippines require • Total number (including # women and
quality materials and poor construction enhanced resilience through revised children): Over 2 million woman and
underscore much of the devastation building codes to be able to effectively children
to houses: observations from the respond and thrive given these future
field confirm that many of the houses risks and vulnerabilities.
destroyed were built from wood and other Major Partners:
fragile materials. With the risk of up to Project Objectives:
four more storms in the coming months, • Department of Public Works and
shelter concerns are a top priority. With • Contribute to a better understanding Highways (DPWH)
515,179 houses totally destroyed and of the Philippines’s coastal • Federation of Engineering Institutions
551,546 partially damaged, the priority is infrastructure’s vulnerabilities to of Southeast Asia and the Pacific
for people to repair, reconstruct, or build Typhoons, Tsunamis and floods. (FEIAP)
makeshift shelter on their existing plot of • Develop disaster resilient design
land. • International Centre of Excellence for
proposals in collaboration with FEIAP Water Hazard and Risk Management
and UNESCO centers (ICHARM) Japan
Despite forced evacuations of thousands
of people in high-risk areas, safe and • Connect global engineering and • International Center for Integrated
structurally secure evacuation centers scientific community to local Water Resouces Management
and proper evacuation plans were early efforts and strengthen the (ICIWaRM) USA
clearly lacking during Typhoon Haiyan. collaboration among stakeholders
There were many reports of packed • Ministry of Land, Infrastructure,
evacuation centers in the Visayas Transport and Tourism, Japan
that collapsed because of the strong
Key activities:
winds of Haiyan, and also because of • Emergency review of National Building Proposed budget (USD)
flooding within the evacuation centers, Code of the Philippines to increase
further adding to more casualties. This resilience to hazards and disasters; Total $1,500,000
project was developed following a close
• Engage with stakeholders to revise
consultation with the Secretary Public
building code *
Works and Highways, Government of
the Philippines and other stakeholders • Develop innovative design solutions
in the wake of widespread infrastructure and community/partner engagement
damage and need to build back better for critical infrastructure;
and more resilient infrastructure. The
• Implement revised building code
project addresses the need for more
through approved innovative designs.
resilient, disaster prone designs of critical
infrastructure and national building code,
especially in high-risk areas throughout
the Philippines. It recognizes that the Contact us: 27th Flr Tower 2, Enterprise Center, Ayale Ave, Makati City, PHILIPPINES
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Super Typhoon Haiyan Strategic Response Plan
(DISASTER RISK REDUCTION)
© A. Cairola/UNESCO
Emergency Support for Better Community Comprehension and Action on
Extreme Events Forecasts
Background: and Haiyan Cyclone lessons learned • Develop alternative communication
assessment. This will project provide means with VHF radio based
Local government officials have com- dedicated training at national, regional information sharing tools.
plained to national agencies such as and local levels on the early warning chains
PAGASA that technical weather forecasts to gain community trust and strengthen
and warnings had been difficult to relay to associated responses to such warnings. Performance Indicators
their constituents. The dangers of a storm • Beneficiaries: Over 15 million affected
and its consequences to the Philippines, Project Objectives: and vulnerable communities
a country that experiences more than 20
typhoons per year, can be interpreted in • Community capacity building and • Total number (including # women and
many ways by communities. Before Storm emergency support for informed children): Over 2 million woman and
Haiyan, forecasting agencies were already decision-making of affected children
stressing the dangers of storm surges, communities, regional and national
• Better comprehension and
communities found it hard to understand. authorities to make effective decisions
preparedness for hazard warnings at
Local weather bulletin concentrated before and during extreme weather
all levels
mainly on the strong winds of Typhoon events .
Haiyan but consequences of storm
surges were not explained in detail.
Key activities: Major Partners:
Most Filipinos are familiar with strong
• World Meteorological Organization
winds from typhoons but are unfamiliar • Create a better understanding of
(WMO)
with storm surges. The damage and loss present predictions by analyzing
caused by the Typhoon could have been forecast tools and techniques; • Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical
significantly reduced if communities were and Astronomical Services
• Enhance current monitoring and
fully aware of its consequences and how Administration (PAGASA)
assessment of recent high impact
they could respond to the threats of
weather, water, and climate events; • International Centre of Excellence for
extreme weather events.
Water Hazard and Risk Management
• Improve forecast evaluation process,
(ICHARM) Japan
While the typhoon and local surge including verification techniques,
forecasting is technically satisfactory, the performance metrics, evaluating • University of the Philippines
magnitude and impact of the accurately existing forecast, and engaging users at
predicted storm surge were not well national and local levels;
understood by the local people and Proposed budget (USD)
• Develop and deliver training materials
therefore results in massive death toll
and applications that enhance Total $1,500,000
and outrageous damages to the local
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
infrastructure. There is a need to develop
Administration (NOAA) climate services.
standard operating procedures and
dissemination and use of forecasts for
community preparedness. This can be
aided by carrying out capability analysis
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Super Typhoon Haiyan Strategic Response Plan
(WASH)
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Emergency Management of Groundwater and Environmental Resources
Background: for the population and for disinfection • Deploy innovative methods and
of wells where necessary. Similarly training of lcal communities to convert
Many of the main water networks in flooding waters leads to hyacinth blooms, Hyacinth into charcoal.
the Haiyan-affected municipalities, a cause of major problems to surface
especially in Eastern Visayas, have either water supplies and agriculture. The
been severely damaged or are non- water hyacinth crisis can be turned into Performance Indicators
operational. A number of water networks economic benefits for the affected areas, • Beneficiaries: Over 15 million affected
are only partially operational, mainly due by converting it into commercial charcoal. and vulnerable communities
to lack of electricity and damaged pumps
or pipes. The majority of the displaced • Total number (including # women and
Project Objectives:
population is highly dependent on unsafe children): Over 2 million woman and
water sources such as surface water, • Restoration of community water children
water coming from broken pipes, hand supplies by disinfection of wells
pumps and open dug wells. and reduction of increased levels
of hyacinth caused by floodwaters Major Partners:
containing high loads of sediment, • Water Resources Research and
Wastewater treatment disposal facilities,
debris, and chemical and biological Training Department - Local Water
septic tanks, landfills, oil storage tanks,
contaminants. Utilities Administration (WRRTD-
and animal waste lagoons have been
flooded due to torrential rains and storm LWUA)
surge waters. Flood waters also contain Key activities: • Department of Public Works and
large loads of sediment, debris, and Highways (DPWH)
chemical and biological contaminants, • Field studies to measure the extent of
and deep inundation in turn forces contamination of wells; • UNESCO - IHE (Institute for Water
such contaminated water into aquifer Education)
• Generate Georgraphic Information
formations. The fecal and pathogenic System (GIS) based reference maps • International Groundwater Resources
bacterial contamination of surface using the groundwater data bank; Assesment Centre (IGRAC)
waters and groundwater wells due to
their immersion by floodwaters will be • Develop a work plan for disinfection, • Local communities
a significant health risk, consistent with a suitability analysis of disinfection
past flooding events. Oily floodwater methods, and a survey of Local Water
Utilities Administration; Proposed budget (USD)
residues from oil spill resulting from
reported damage to a barge owned by • Conduct a field evaluation of well Total $1,900,000
the National Power Corporation in Iloilo disinfection methods;
Province also remains a major concern.
The groundwater data bank maintained • Assess Hyacinth spread in surface
by the Water Resources Research and waters as a result of wide spread
Training Department (WRRTD) of the organic matter mobilization;
Local Water Utilities Administration
(LWUA) can be used as a base to aid
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Super Typhoon Haiyan Strategic Response Plan
UNESCO Regional Science Bureau for Asia and the Pacific
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Rebuilding Climate Resilient Communities in Philippines
Country: Philippines Background: Project Objectives:
Project Title: Rebuilding Climate
Resilient Communities Project Super typhoons a new reality. Typhoon • Community capacity building and
Executing Agency: UNESCO/Ministry Haiyan, known as Typhoon Yolanda in emergency support for informed
of Public Works and and Highways, the Philippines, was an exceptionally decision-making therefore enhancing
Government of the Philippines powerful tropical cyclone that devastated the ability of affected communities,
Est. Budget: US$3.0 Million portions of Southeast Asia, particularly regional and national authorities to
Duration: 3 years the Philippines, in early November 2013. make effective decisions before and
It is the deadliest Philippine typhoon on during the extreme weather events
record, killing at least 6,201 people in through a better comprehension of
that country alone. Haiyan is also the extreme event forecasts.
strongest storm recorded at landfall, and
• Develop and propose disaster resilient
TYPHOON YOLANDA/HAIYAN unofficially the fourth strongest typhoon
designs that focus on regionally
ever recorded in terms of wind speed.
IN THE PHILIPPINES NUMBERS applicable solutions in early recovery,
AT A GLANCE increase resilience against typhoons,
Scientific and Political Consenus on
tsunamis and floods, develop and
Climate Change. Both political leaders
16 million
promote innovation, and integrate
and climatologists have connected the
local efforts in the region.
typhoon to climate change. During the
People Affected 2013 United Nations Climate Change • Restoration of community water
Conference (which was coincidentally supplies by disinfection of wells
6,201
Deaths Associated
held concurrently with the typhoon),
Yeb Saño, the lead negotiator of the
and reduction of increased levels
of hyacinth caused by floodwaters
Philippines delegation, received a containing high loads of sediment,
standing ovation when he declared a debris, and chemical and biological
4.1 million
People Displaced
hunger strike: “In solidarity with my
countrymen who are struggling to find
contaminants.
food back home, I will now commence
a voluntary fasting for the climate; this
1.1 million
Houses Damaged or Destroyed
means I will voluntarily refrain from
eating food during this COP, until a
meaningful outcome is in sight.” — Yeb
Saño Climatologists have consequently
Government of the Philippines (GPH) published analyses correlating the
National Disaster Risk Reduction and increasing intensity of storms with the
Management Council (NDRRMC) –
progression of global warming.
January 14, 2014
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Super Typhoon Haiyan Strategic Response Plan
UNESCO Regional Science Bureau for Asia and the Pacific
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Project Outcomes: PROJECT COMPONENT • Development and delivery of training
materials and applications that
• Scientific and institutional framework enhance NOAH climate services by
for extreme events prediction reviewed Main Project Components improving understanding of users
and strengthened understanding and by delivering the
The project focuses on Typhoon Yoland
• Risk identification and early warning affected areas principally Capiz, Cebu, best available climate information
mechanisms improved at national and Iloilo, Leyte, Negros, Occidental and for the NOAH societal challenges in
local levels through targeted capacity Samar. The proposed project will have managing floods, typhoons, coasts,
building three components - the details of the extremes, and marine ecosystems..
components are as follows: Component 2:
• Disaster risk reduction is integrated in
development of response policies and Building Back Resilient Infrastructure
plans
Component 1: through Innovative Design and Revision
Better Community Comprehension and of Infrastructure Codes for Effective
• Disaster preparedness and emergency Action on Extreme Events Forecasts at Recovery ($ 1.0 million). The main outputs
response practices strengthened all levels ($1.0 million equally shared of this component would be climate
between the two basins). The main resilient national building code, innovative
• Gender equality strengthened in
outputs of this component would be: design solutions and community/partner
disaster risk reduction implementation.
• Creation of a better understanding engagement for critical infrastructure
• A revised national building code to of present predictions skills by e.g. schools, hospitals and highways i.e.
build back resilient infrastructure for analyzing accuracy of forecast tools “disaster resilient design proposals”
managing recurring extreme events and techniques i.e. dynamical models
such as typhoons, tsunamis and floods and statistical methods, forecaster Component 3:
practices and protocols, data quality Emergency Management of Groundwater
• Innovative design solutions and
and assimilation, and scientific best and Environmental Resources ($1.0
community/partner engagements for
practices; million). The main output of this
critical infrastructure, e.g. schools,
hospitals and highways • Enhancement of current monitoring component would be as:
and timely attribution and assessment • Identification of contaminated wells
• Identification of contaminated wells and aquifer contamination in the
of recent high impact weather, water,
and aquifer contamination in the affected areas
and climate events in the affected areas
affected areas
through development of standard • Trial of suitable disinfection metho-
• Trial of suitable disinfection metho- operating procedures. dologies to train Local Water Utilities
dologies to train Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) in restoring safe
• Improved forecast evaluation process,
Administration (LWUA) in restoring safe water supplies
including verification techniques,
water supplies
performance metrics, evaluating • Reduction of water hyacinth disaster
• Reduction of water hyacinth disaster existing forecast, and engaging users to surface waters and agriculture by
to surface waters and agriculture by at national and local levels in the converting it into charcoal suitable for
converting it into charcoal suitable for evaluation process; local energy needs
local energy needs
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