Typhoon Haiyan Response - PHL131 Appeal Target: US$16,210,035 Balance Requested: US$9,819,118 This Appeal Replaces the Preliminary Appeal Issued 14 November 2013
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SECRETARIAT - 150 route de Ferney, P.O. Box 2100, 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland - TEL: +41 22 791 6033 - FAX: +41 22 791 6506 www.actalliance.org Appeal Philippines Typhoon Haiyan Response - PHL131 Appeal Target: US$16,210,035 Balance Requested: US$9,819,118 This appeal replaces the preliminary appeal issued 14 November 2013 Geneva, 16 December 2013 Dear Colleagues, Barely recovering from the devastation of a 7.1 magnitude earthquake on 15 October 2013, which had left 5,000 people homeless and 50,000 houses damaged, the people of Cebu and Bohol were further hit by super Typhoon Haiyan (local name: Typhoon Yolanda). Typhoon Haiyan, considered the world’s strongest typhoon ever to make landfall, slammed into Guiuan, Eastern Samar early in the morning of 8 November packing a sustained wind of 235 kph and gusts of 275 kph. Haiyan made subsequent landfalls in Tolosa (south of Tacloban City), Leyte Province; Daanbantayan and Bantayan Island, Cebu Province; Conception, Iloilo Province; and Busuanga, Palawan Province. It left a wide path of destruction and debris in its wake over 9 provinces, with estimates of casualties and damage fluctuating considerably in the immediate aftermath. Damaged roads, fallen trees and debris severely limited access to people in need immediately after the crisis. The numbers are staggering; the UN-OCHA estimate 14.16 million or 15% of the total population have been affected; 3.62 million people displaced; 1.1 million damaged houses. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported 5,600 dead, 26,231 injured and 1,761 missing. There are currently over 226,000 people living in 1,068 evacuation centres. Large numbers of people have been leaving the devastated area with over 17,000 being airlifted to Manila. ACT members in the Philippines Christian Aid (CA), ICCO Cooperation, Lutheran World Relief (LWR), Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) and the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP) plan to assist the most vulnerable and resource poor people affected by the typhoon through the following assistance: food and non-food items, WASH, shelter, psycho-social support, education, livelihood restoration/development, cash for work, disaster risk reduction (DRR), capacity building and climate change advocacy. ACT Alliance has registered its appeal projects in the UN flash appeal also for its members NCA, NCCP, LWR, ICCO Cooperation and Christian Aid. Church World Service (CWS) and DanChurchAid (DCA) have PHL131 – Typhoon Haiyan Assistance 2 registered their projects independently. Altogether, nine ACT Alliance projects have been registered and all of them have been approved and published. TABLE 1: START AND COMPLETION DATES: ACT Member Project Start/Completion Date: Christian Aid ICCO Cooperation Lutheran World Relief 10 November 2013 to 31 October 2014 Norwegian Church Aid National Council of Churches in the Philippines TABLE 2: SUMMARY OF ACT APPEAL RESPONSE: TOTAL ACT Member Sector of Response Districts (Individuals) Food, non-food items (NFI), livelihoods (cash), Samar, Eastern Samar, Christian Aid disaster risk reduction (DRR) & climate change 150,000 Biliran, Palawan advocacy (CCA) capacity building Negros Occidental, Food, NFI, shelter, livelihood, WASH, DDR & ICCO Cooperation Northern Iloilo, Leyte, 55,583 capacity building Western Samar, Aklan Shelter, NFI, early recovery (cash for work – Lutheran World Relief Cebu, Leyte, Bantayan, 148,719 debris removal) Cebu, Samar, Eastern Norwegian Church Aid WASH 50,000 Samar Food, NFI, WASH, shelter, emergency National Council of Churches Eastern & Western preparedness, psycho-social support, 188,670 in the Philippines Samar and Iloilo livelihood restoration TOTAL 592,972 TABLE 3: SUMMARY OF APPEAL REQUIREMENTS ACT Member CA ICCO LWR NCA NCCP RST Evaluation ACT TOTAL CC TARGET US$ Programme 3,691,597 896,044 4,715,465 2,113,358 4,643,405 35,000 50,000 65,166 16,210,035 Target Less 330,788 896,044 1,282,616 936,666 2,501,994 19,768 4,858 0 6,390,917* pledges/contrib BALANCE 3,360,809 0 3,432,849 1,176,692 2,141,411 15,232 45,142 65,166 9,819,118 REQUESTED *Includes unallocated funds (pledges): US$ 418,183 TABLE 4: REPORTING SCHEDULE Member Situation reports Interim narrative & Final narrative & Audit financial financial CA 31 May 2014 ICCO 28 February 2014* LWR Monthly 31 May 2014 31 December 2014 31 January 2015 NCA 31 May 2014 NCCP *ICCO interim reporting date different due to back-donor specification PHL131 – Typhoon Haiyan Assistance 3 Please kindly send your contributions to either of the following ACT bank accounts: US dollar Euro Account Number - 240-432629.60A Euro Bank Account Number - 240-432629.50Z IBAN No: CH46 0024 0240 4326 2960A IBAN No: CH84 0024 0240 4326 2950Z Account Name: ACT Alliance UBS AG 8, rue du Rhône P.O. Box 2600 1211 Geneva 4, SWITZERLAND Swift address: UBSWCHZH80A Please also inform the Director of Finance, Jean-Daniel Birmele ([email protected]) and the Senior Programme Officer Sudhanshu Singh ([email protected]) of all pledges/contributions and transfers, including funds sent direct to the implementers. We would appreciate being informed of any intent to submit applications for EU, USAID and/or other back donor funding and the subsequent results. We thank you in advance for your kind cooperation. For further information please contact: ACT Senior Programme Officer, Sudhanshu Singh (phone +41 22 791 6035 or mobile phone +41 79 285 2916) or ACT Acting Deputy General Secretary and Director of Programmes, Pauliina Parhiala (phone + 41 22 7916069 or mobile phone + 41 79 963 5333) ACT Web Site address: http://www.actalliance.org Jean-Daniel Birmele Director of Finance and Officer-in-charge ACT Alliance Secretariat PHL131 – Typhoon Haiyan Assistance 4 I. OPERATIONAL CONTEXT 1. Crisis: Barely recovering from the devastation of a 7.1 magnitude earthquake on 15 October 2013, which had left 5,000 people homeless and 50,000 houses damaged, the people of Cebu and Bohol were further hit by super Typhoon Haiyan (local name: Typhoon Yolanda). Typhoon Haiyan, considered the world’s strongest typhoon ever to make landfall, slammed into Guiuan, Eastern Samar early in the morning of 8 November packing a sustained wind of 235 kph and gusts of 275 kph. Haiyan made subsequent landfalls in Tolosa (south of Tacloban City), Leyte Province; Daanbantayan and Bantayan Island, Cebu Province; Conception, Iloilo Province; and Busuanga, Palawan Province. It left a wide path of destruction and debris in its wake over 9 provinces, with estimates of casualties and damage fluctuating considerably in the immediate aftermath. Damaged roads, fallen trees and debris severely limited access to people in need immediately after the crisis. The numbers are staggering; the UN-OCHA estimate 14.16 million or 15% of the total population have been affected; 3.62 million people displaced; 1.1 million damaged houses. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported 5,600 dead, 26,231 injured and 1,761 missing. There are currently over 226,000 people living in 1,068 evacuation centres. Large numbers of people have been leaving the devastated area with over 17,000 being airlifted to Manila. 2. Actions to date 2.1. Needs and resources assessment Apart from small numbers of people living in small islets in northern Cebu and some hard-to-access coastal areas of Eastern Samar still not being well served, all of the devastated areas have now been reached and preliminary results from the Multi-Cluster Initial Rapid Assessment (MIRA) confirm that immediate life-saving needs are in food, shelter and the restoration of essential community services (health, water, sanitation, education and social welfare). Affected communities also need recovery of livelihoods with an urgent need to supply farmers with agricultural inputs and crop packages for the December/January planting season. If this is not expedited in a timely manner the next harvest will not be until October 2014 leaving a prolonged period of food insecurity for a very large population. The Government of the Philippines (GoP) has defined shelter as a top priority equal to food and water. 4.9 million people have been displaced and 1.2 million are in need of new or repaired homes and it is estimated that people will need an estimated 4 million corrugated iron sheets and other shelter material to reconstruct their homes – though there is concern over potential pipeline shortfalls both locally and internationally. Issues of housing, land and property have started to surface in severely affected areas. Assessment methodologies included a review of secondary data from government, UN clusters, news coverage, participatory data-gathering approaches (FGDs, consultations with leaders and affected communities), and validation of information in reachable target communities. The methodologies used and analyses presented were also informed largely by existing information borne out of previous and current engagements with communities and local governments by local organisations with the affected localities Assessment results show that the priority needs for target communities are the following: Food Shelter Livelihood/Source of income Water and Health Psychosocial Support PHL131 – Typhoon Haiyan Assistance 5 NCCP as well as MIRA reports confirm that mental health and psychosocial support is of primary concern in the typhoon affected areas in the Philippines. Rapid assessments show that current response measures are insufficient to meet the needs of the affected population. Key is the loss of safe and secure shelter, lack of access to sufficient food, potable water, good sanitation and the risks these pose to health. The disruption in the main sources of income and livelihood of families especially those who depend on subsistence farming, fishing, petty trade and casual labour as well as the increasing price of food and major commodities further weakened families' capacities to immediately recover. Damages to crops, fishing boats and implements also pose long term loss of livelihood and source if income, prolonging the recovery process especially in the hardest hit communities.