WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE CLUSTER

Response to Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) 11 April 2014

CLUSTER SNAPSHOT OVERVIEW 81 Million 76% The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Cluster is transitioning from immediate life-saving relief needed funded work to the life-sustaining recovery and rehabilitation phase; focusing on building back better not only in terms of communal- and household-level water and sanitation facilities but also in terms of As of 11 April 2014 building governance and resilience capacities at local levels.

From day one, the WASH Cluster not only sought to bring back to pre-Yolanda the water and sanitation coverage, it also strategized to help in the improvement of the overall WASH conditions of the affected communities. As the Cluster continues with recovery and rehabilitation activities in WASH, so too does the need for good coordination and for partners to create/adopt a common approach to achieve sustainability in WASH services within the communities.

URGENT HUMANITARIAN NEEDS

As a part of the Sanitation Strategy, a WASH survey will commence, collecting detailed WASH data across 80 affected municipalities. The survey will assist in providing a clearer picture of gaps at the level. The results are expected to show that coverage is lacking in remote hinterland and western Leyte municipalities compared to the eastern coastal municipalities of Leyte, as well as parts of Eastern Samar. This will hopefully support the need to upscale household sanitation across the affected areas. Although emergency WASH needs are mostly met across the response, the rehabilitation of household sanitation facilities and increasing sanitation coverage to those areas which had low coverage prior to Yolanda remain priorities.

The northern municipalities of Tuburan, Tabuelan, , Borbon, Tudela, Pilar, San Fransisco, Poro and Tudela have no partners planning further WASH activities. Many of these municipalities were vulnerable before Yolanda, with, for example, poor sanitation coverage (parts of Tabuelan and Tuburan shows latrine coverage of lower than 25 per cent). Also, schools outside the above-mentioned municipalities need help with rehabilitation. In Region VI there is a growing need to address open defecation in coastal areas affected by Yolanda, which were already a concern prior to the emergency.

CLUSTER RESPONSE

The Cluster is guided by the Strategic Response Plan and the Strategic Operations Framework agreed with the Department of Health (DoH) and cluster partners. To date, some partner intervention highlights are as follows: • The response has transferred from emergency to recovery and this response is scaling up. As part of the emergency phase, 466,290 hygiene kits and 329,270 water kits have been distributed. Although distributions have stopped across majority of the response, distributions of hygiene kits and water kits continue in western Leyte as a number of communities remain unreached with WASH assistance until now. • Water system repairs are ongoing in 23 municipalities across Leyte to the benefit of 385,290 persons. To date, water supply infrastructure improvements have benefitted 302,991 persons. • The Sanitation Strategy for Early Recovery is under development, with a round of consultation with sanitation inspectors in affected areas of Region VIII now completed. Latrine construction is scaling up as agencies address material supply issues. A total of 9,678 latrines have been constructed benefitting 145,394 persons. • Rehabilitation of water supply systems is ongoing in 11 municipalities across Eastern Samar. To date, water supply infrastructure rehabilitation activities have benefitted 109,135 persons. • Repair/construction of household sanitation facilities is scaling up with the distribution by WASH partners of sanitation repair kits and technical support to families. To date, sanitation facilities have been provided to 19,513 persons in Eastern Samar. • The distribution of hygiene kits is complete, with almost 100 per cent coverage reaching approximately 170,000 people across 11 municipalities in Eastern Samar. However, hygiene education-with community mobilization and the strengthening of community WASH committees-is to be scaled up. • In Cebu, distributions of hygiene and water kits have mostly ended and latrine construction/rehabilitation is still starting up, as well as WASH integration in school activities. But while activities in these areas have started for some partners, none are complete. Forty WASH committees (with an average female membership of 82 per cent) have been established on Bantayan island (the municipalities of Bantayan, Santa Fe and Madridejos), and the committees will continue to receive training. In Daan Bantayan and the Bantayan Island municipalities mentioned above, a total of 10,574 student hygiene kits have been distributed.

https://philippines.humanitarianresponse.info www.unocha.org www.reliefweb.int Response to Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) 11 April 2014

WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE : Ongoing and Completed WASH activities as of 07 April 2014 CLUSTER Funding by sector (in US$) Masbate Samar

Region 7

Roxas ALTAVAS City WVI $81m ⛳☍ PILAR Biliran WVI total needed Aklan

LEYTE Oxfam 76% Capiz LWUA, TACLOBAN CITY Mercy Corps, WVI (CAPITAL) funded SCI VILLABA ALANGALANGLeyte SCI IMC ⛳☍ DAGAMI BANTAYAN PRC, WVI Oxfam MATAG-OB SCI SANTA FE Mercy Corps, KANANGA SDC, THW SCI, SDC ⛳☍ Ormoc

ORMOC CITY PILAR IMC, Oxfam BURAUEN CHALLENGES Iloilo LGU Plan MACARTHUR IMC The WASH situation in bunkhouses remains a concern, with serious issues related to drainage and latrine construction. WASH focal point agencies are working with the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to find a solution. Cebu ⛳☍ Cebu The northern relocation site in Tacloban continues to be City developed, with the establishment of an additional 1,000 Southern transitional shelters expected over the coming month. It is to Leyte be confirmed which WASH partners will provide support in that location. Further advocacy and clear commitments from donors are needed on the issues of long-term water supply Negros and relocation of the temporary landfill sites. Occidental

The procurement of construction materials is reported as a major challenge for WASH partners. There is a plan to relocate people currently living in the tent city in Guiuan. There will be a need to address WASH issues in transitional shelters as well as the permanent relocation sites once they are identified.

Some challenges in areas such as Bantayan Island and Daan

Bantayan are that high numbers of informal settlers live on ⛳☍ Coordination Hub land where the landowner does not allow the construction of Ongoing Activities Completed Activities latrines with septic tanks. This problem is acknowledged by Data Sources: The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations Creation date: 11 Apr 2014 Glide number: TC-2013-000139-PHL Sources: 3W data provided by IASC cluster lead agencies and compiled by OCHA. Geographic data from NAMRIA. the mayors of the municipalities, but no solution has been Feedback: [email protected]� www.unocha.org www.reliefweb.int found. Further challenges in latrine construction are the lack of de-sludging actors and disposal locations. All de-sludging actors are currently based in or around , making de- sludging difficult and expensive in northern Cebu.

Background on the crisis Typhoon Haiyan (known locally as Yolanda) swept through the central Philippines on 8 November, killing over 6,000 people and displacing some 4 million people, flattening homes and damaging schools, health centres and other infrastructure. Some experts estimate the storm was among the strongest ever to make landfall. On 9 November, the Government accepted the UN offer of international assistance. The Government also welcomed the deployment, in the initial phase of disaster response, of a large number of countries’ military assets. The humanitarian community’s one-year Strategic Response Plan calling for $788 million has been released and is closely aligned to the Government’s Yolanda Recovery and Rehabilitation Plan launched on 18 December.

Cluster lead agency / co-lead agency Department of Health / UNICEF

For further information, please contact:

Rory Villaluna National WASH Cluster Coordinator [email protected] +63-917-859-2578

Sheena Carmel Opulencia-Calub National WASH Cluster Information Manager [email protected] +63-921-603-3818

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