Philippines: Improving lives of population affected by typhoons

Economic & social development

Philippines: Improving lives of population affected by typhoons

Objective: To help local communities recover from typhoon disasters by providing support to permanent shelters and homeless families

  • Status

    Project completed

  • Location Eastern Samar

This project provided support for 126 resilient permanent shelters with water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) alongside livelihood support to the project beneficiaries. It also set up a complementary component to support livelihoods for 30 relocated households, based on vulnerability criteria and built the capacities of local authorities to mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters.

Partner: ACTED (French NGO) 

Sponsor: Liping Mian (Alstom Communications)

  • Promoter

    Arlene Melosantos (Alstom HR)

  • Duration

    2 years