: Koppu (Lando) Community Engagement Response and Preparedness Actions

For typhoon Koppu (Lando), the Humanitarian Country Team’s Community of Practice (HCT-CoP) on Community Engagement The Community of Practice (CoP) on Community Engagement comprises of 42 organizations coming from UN agencies, provided minimum response support through the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) drone for assessment, set up of emergen- International Non-Government Organizations (INGOs), Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), Faith-Based Groups (FBGs), Media cy humanitarian radio facility to support local government units as well humanitarian agencies and affected communities in the Development and Humanitarian Agencies (MDHA), Telecommunications Companies, Private Sector and the Philippine Government provision of two-way communication platform, monitoring of feedback and concerns of the affected communities through the social through Philippine Information Agency (PIA). media (Facebook & Twitter), and conduct of series of community consultations in various affected areas

Response 20 Oct

19 Oct

18 Oct

Aurora

Nueva Ecija Manila

Cagayan

Pangasinan

Aurora Aurora Preparedness Nueva Ecija

Regular weather updates and early warning advisories

Pre-positioned solar radios

Activated FireChat Deployed UAV team a day after Restored damaged mobile Set-up emergency and Deployed assessment teams Mobilized digital humanitarian the typhoon and conducted towers and provided free calls, humanitarian radio and conducted series of volunteers and partner series of aerial assessments in SMS and charging station/ser- facility community feedback consulta- networks to gather and verify the affected areas vices tions crowdsourced information Pre-positioned ham radio ICC-V88 VHF transiver units

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Activated Community Mobile services Response Map Emergency radio Rapid Information Communication Accountability Assessment and Consultation Online platform/Social Media

18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23 Oct 24 Oct 25 Oct 26 Oct 27 Oct 28 Oct 29 Oct 30 Oct 31 Oct 01 Nov Actions prior to typhoon landfall

Creation date: 12 November 2015 Source: COP on Community Engagement Feedback: [email protected] [email protected] reliefweb.int www.unocha.org/philippines philippines.humanitarianresponse.info