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Joint Rapid Needs Assessment Flood affected
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ASSESSMENT LOCATIONS
Joint Rapid Needs Assessment Flood affected
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FINDINGs - MARIKINA

• The flood water levels had receded in most areas.
  
• Public water services were restored, with
  drinkable water in several of the barangays
  visited, however with very low pressure or no
  pressure in other areas.
• No water services in areas near the river

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FINDINGs - MARIKINA

• Barangay Malanday
• Population 51,000
• EC 2
• Displaced families go home during the day but
  return to sleep at ECs
• Food received by NGOs, ABD CBN, GMA, Red Cross,
  Barangay funds
• ECs congested

• Toilets overflowing
• Camp management lacking
• Deaths
• Drowning 7

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FINDINGs - MARIKINA

• Barangay Santo Nino
• Population 36,000
• One site along the river (1,000 people)
  requesting water and food
• No running water and electricity
• Waste management urgent requirement
• Approximately 6,000 people require assistance

• Priorities
• Potable / drinking water
• Clothing
• Mats/Mattresses
• Food
• Medicines

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FINDINGs - MARIKINA

• Barangay Tumana
• Population 56,000
• All of this barangay evacuated
• Relief goods received
• Water available but testing is required
• Road clearing is a priority
• No electricity

• Priorities
• Food
• Clothes
• School Supplies
• Construction materials for houses
• Clearing equipment

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FINDINGs - MARIKINA

• Barangay Tanong
• Population 15,000
• 3,000 15,000 individuals affected
• 100 families in barangay hall
• 300-400 families in elementary school
• Relief received from city officials, SMART,
  individuals
• Prolonged stay
• Water sanitation remains an issue
• 126 families in one EC, five families per room

• Priorities
• Food
• Potable water
• Blankets
• Clothes
• Buckets for cleaning / flushing toilets
• Sleeping mats
• Emergency lamps
• Medicines

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FINDINGs - MARIKINA

• Amang Rodrigues Memorial hospital
• Restoration of power is a main concern
• Medical equipment damaged
• Diagnostics
• Lab
• Blood bank
• Medicines

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FINDINGs PASIG

• 4,000 people on queue for bottled water and
  cupcakes
• Beneficiaries walked up to 3 kms to site
• No ECs according to command post
• Ongoing medical mission
• People interviewed have no place to go even
  though their houses are flooded and things are
  wet
• Some families in Sta Lucia whilst most in their
  houses
• No relief received except for private donations

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FINDINGs - PASIG

• Insufficient water supply
• Cainta Municipal Hall 5,000 7,000 people
  lined up for relief food but no water
• Several areas still impassable and remain under
  water
• No public services restored
• Priorities
• Potable water
• Food
• NFIs (clothing, blankets, mats)

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FINDINGs - TAGUIG

• Total Population 650,000
• EC 39
• Initial figures of affected families was 1,950
  households.
• 24 out of 28 barangays remain under water with
  some areas up to 2 - 4 feet.
• Three main barangays with high water levels are
  Napindan, New Lower Bicutan and Ususan.
• EC visited has residual floods on the first
  floor.

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FINDINGs - TAGUIG

• Assessment of the evacuation centre in submerged
  areas is necessary.
• Some families are reluctant to go to the
  evacuation centre and remain at their homes.
• Majority of evacuees in the evacuation centre are
  informal settlers.
• The relief support appears to be top down and
  organized, with two command posts, six medical
  teams and regular monitoring of sites

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FINDINGs - TAGUIG

• New Lower Bicutan Baragay
• Population 40,000.
• Evacuation centre visited RP Cruz Elementary
  School.
• Access to health care was a major priority
• The mention of diarrhoea was a concern numbers
  to be verified
• High number of damaged health centres, as most
  areas remain under water.
• Other Prioritization areas
• Logistics
• Non-Food Items
• Food and WASH
• Protection Education

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FINDINGs Quezon City

• EC 42
• Bagong Silangan Barangay
• Population 85,000
• 797 families are in the four evacuation centres
  and unable to return to their homes

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FINDINGs - Muntinlupa

• Population 500,000
• EC - 18 ? 2,889 families
• approximately 30,000 flood-affected people
  outside of ECs.
• Access to areas was the main challenge for
  delivery of services both into and out of the
  barangays as water remains up to 4-5 feet in 8 of
  the 9 barangays.
• LGU anticipates that the water will recede in 2
  -3 months
• Requests additional rubber boats or dump trucks.
• Barangays most affected include Tunasan,
  Poblacion, Putatan.

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FINDINGs - Pateros

• Population 63,000
• ECs - 19 evacuation centres ? 1,202 households
  displaced.
• Approximately 4,500 flood-affected households
  outside of ECs.
• Access also was an issue as 9 out of 10 barangays
  that remained under water.
• Due to narrow roads, only small ELF trucks can be
  use for distribution of relief goods.

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FINDINGs - Region IV-A

• Rizal Cainta
• Population 400,000
• Barangay San Andres, San Juan and Sto. Domingo
  (most affected areas)
• All seven barangays submerged in water during the
  typhoon.
• EC - 13
• Families needing assistance cannot be estimated
  yet
• Cainta Municipal Hall - 5,000-7,000 people were
  queuing up (since morning) for an emergency
  relief distribution.
• Water services have not been restored
• Access to potable drinking water is the most
  urgent need, along with food and non-food items.
• Medicines are also a high priority.

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FINDINGs - Region IV-A

• Barangay San Andres
• Knee-high water level with no water in the taps
  (except for those very close to the water meter).
  
• Some hand-pumps were seen functioning.
• People have reopened some shops despite the water
  level not reducing
• People are moving in and out of the area to
  access assistance and markets further away.
• The flood damage to housing is extensive, but not
  with the high level of debris as observed in
  Marikina City.
• The team was not able to access the areas closer
  to the rivers, where the need for road clearance
  is likely to be more critical.

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Local Coordination Response Structures

• Varying degree of coordination and responses,
  depending on the number of people affected and
  the capacity of the local government structures.
• Government indicated lack of capacity to provide
  relief outside of evacuation centres.
• Solid private sector and NGO support in providing
  relief goods in evacuation centres.

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Local Coordination Response Structures

• NNDC OCD established Advanced Command Posts
• Very useful for local coordination of emergency
  responses for the initial 1-3 weeks
• 1st port of call actor coordinate with ACP
• Important that these posts do not become a layer
  between LGUs and cluster decision-makers
• ACP need to be equipped with comprehensive
  contact lists of key sectoral decision-makers and
  responders in the areas for referral of requests

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Local Coordination Response Structures

• LGU
• Some were overwhelmed and unable to mobilize
  resources or assistance
• Lack of communications hampered their efforts
• Exhaustion of LGU officials can be expected to
  impact local coordination efforts during the
  initial response
• LGU response included distribution of donated and
  government relief included hot meals at ECs
• Medical teams were sent daily to ECs, families
  outside of evacuation centres access general
  health services in the health centres accessible
  to varying degree Recommendation? Centralization
  of information management needs to be established
  as soon as possible, as the reliance on LGUs to
  provide full coordination services at a local
  level to all responders is unlikely to be a
  sustainable approach.

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PRIORITY NEEDS OVERVIEW

• Provision of water and potable containers for a
  period of 3-4 days/or until pressure is restored
  in specific areas.
• Restoration of water services and water quality
  tested.
• Food and essential non-food item relief
  distributed to evacuation centres and
  flood-affected households.
• Distribution management to ensure relief reaches
  affected and vulnerable populations outside
  evacuation centres and distribution points.
• Establishment of basic Camp Management/
  Coordination Services in the evacuation centres.
• Sanitation facilities established and maintained
  in the evacuation centres.
• Health and hygiene education campaign to
  continue.
• Waste disposal, including clearance of trash and
  rubble from roads.
• Access to Taguig City remains a challenge.
• Plan of action for resettlement of displaced
  unable to return to their pre-flood origin.

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KEY RECOMMENDATIONS

• Food Security
• Blanket food distributions in family packs for
  affected persons both inside and outside
  evacuation centres. Food packages suggested to
  include rice, canned goods, noodles.
• Non-Food Items (NFIs)
• Critical need for clothes (including underwear),
  mats/mattresses, blankets, kitchen utensils and
  cooking equipment, hygiene kit, jerry cans /
  water storage, slippers
• DSWD to issue a short guidance note to all
  responders, including IASC agencies, of what a
  family NFI kit should contain to ensure
  consistency in the assistance
• NFI kits for pregnant and lactating women

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KEY RECOMMENDATIONS

• Food Security
• Blanket food distributions in family packs for
  affected persons both inside and outside
  evacuation centres. Food packages suggested to
  include rice, canned goods, noodles.
• Non-Food Items (NFIs)
• Critical need for clothes (including underwear),
  mats/mattresses, blankets, kitchen utensils and
  cooking equipment, hygiene kit, jerry cans /
  water storage, slippers
• DSWD to issue a short guidance note to all
  responders, including IASC agencies, of what a
  family NFI kit should contain to ensure
  consistency in the assistance
• NFI kits for pregnant and lactating women

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KEY RECOMMENDATIONS

• WASH
• Ensure adequate water supplies for all evacuation
  centres
• Water quality test kits to check for
  microbiological contamination
• Water treatment kits and education materials
  distributed
• Hygiene kits distributed
• Waste management and garbage disposal conducted
• DSWD as lead of the Camp Management/ Camp
  Coordination Cluster to ensure a focal point is
  held accountable for the cleanliness and
  conditions of the sanitation facilities in all
  evacuation centres.
• One tanker serving 8-10 Evacuation centres and
  the use of water bladders, if necessary.
• Recommend 15 litres per person of which 3-5
  litres of potable water
• Each family needs a water kit which contains 1
  Bucket, 1 water storage unit, 250 g soap,
  chlorine tablets
• Recommend organization for the cleaning of
  toilets and sanitation facilities (every 2 days).
• Separate washing facilities required for privacy
  in evacuation centres

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KEY RECOMMENDATIONS

• Health
• Rehabilitation of damaged health centres
• Establishment of disease surveillance system
  within evacuation centres and among affected
  families
• Establishment of referral system from evacuation
  centres and affected areas
• Resumption of immunization for affected children
• Augmentation of medical supplies and health human
  resources in anticipation of rising incidence of
  diarrheal disease, respiratory tract infections,
  water-borne diseases
• Mobilization of mobile medical teams to enhance
  access of affected families in evacuation centres
  and in affected areas
• Follow up on reports of diarrhoea
• Ensure quality of water supply (for drinking)
• Improve access to toilets and to implement
  measures to maintain sanitary conditions
• Breastfeeding culture must be encouraged
• Provide psychosocial support to affected families
• Identification and documentation and proper
  interventions for pregnant and lactating women,
  infants, and the elderly
• Education on preventive health
• On-going training on early detection of dengue,
  measles, diarrhoea, pneumonia symptoms
• Referral system must be strengthened
• Improved psychosocial support to the disaster
  affected population.
• Ensure resumption of power to hospitals and
  health centres. d

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KEY RECOMMENDATIONS

• Protection
• Ensure access to basic services and equity of
  distribution, especially for people outside
  evacuation centres who are not receiving
  information about how and where to access
  assistance.
• Monitoring of gender based violence incidents and
  public information campaign for prevention
• Monitoring of registration of vulnerable
  children, including reunification of separated
  children with parents, etc.

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KEY RECOMMENDATIONS

• Education
• Cleaning of schools including sanitation of
  toilets recommended.
• Teaching / Learning materials / classroom
  rehabilitation as required.
• Most of the evacuation centres are schools and
  with the prolonged use of the buildings, schools
  may not be able to resume soon. Alternative
  transitional shelters and learning centres should
  be considered.
• School packs will be needed for children
  returning to school.

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KEY RECOMMENDATIONS

• Shelter
• Short-term
• The shelter cluster to conduct an in-depth
  assessment in coordination with the camp
  management and education cluster of shelter needs
  for the next 2 weeks 3 months.
• Provision of construction materials in areas of
  origin (on-site shelter)
• Long-term
• Identification of suitable relocation and
  resettlement sites for those families unable to
  return to their place of pre-flood origin.

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KEY RECOMMENDATIONS

• Camp Management / Camp Coordination
• Establishment of camp management mechanisms is
  urgently required. This would also support in
  addressing the WASH and Protection concerns in
  the evacuation centres.
• Camp managers to be appointed using the camp
  management guidelines of DSWD
• Registration of displaced persons
• Referral system for emerging diseases
• Training of barangay personnel (long term)
• Plans for organizing the families in the various
  evacuation centre families and consider other
  temporary shelter options both for evacuees in
  covered courts and those requiring longer term
  assistance.
• Separation of livestock from living quartersd

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KEY RECOMMENDATIONS

• Logistics
• Traffic congestion hampers access to the worst
  affected areas. Responding agencies need to
  secure a higher number of staff and vehicles in
  order to send multiple missions to effectively
  cover more areas during the initial response
  period.
• NDCC as lead of the logistics cluster should
  request the relevant authorities to prioritise
  clearing of roads in populated areas to restore
  access.
• NDCC as lead of the logistics cluster, with OCHA
  mapping support and WFP logistic coordination
  support, should immediately look to identify
  specific routes for humanitarian and emergency
  missions into the worst hit areas where the
  traffic enforcement authorities can focus their
  presence and control, to keep out non essential
  traffic, during certain hours of the day.

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The priorities and recommendations are
highlighted through this report - immediate
drinking-water distribution - restoration and
testing (for contamination) of water services -
food and NFI distribution to ECs and
flood-affected households - Strengthened
management in ECs - Registration of displaced
Joint Rapid Needs Assessment Flood affected
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