Philippines Tropical Storm Washi - World Food Programme 2011

On December 17 2011 Tropical Storm Washi (locally known as Sendong) made landfall on Mindanao in the Philippines. It brought torrential rains to this mountainous area not accustomed to such storms. The rains triggered flash floods leading to significant destruction of houses infrastructure and agriculture. As of January 3 2012 a total of 724 729 people had been affected by flash floods in Mindanao and the official death toll stands at 1 257 with 4 658 injuries and 98 people missing. Fifty-four evacuation centres had been established serving 431 304 displaced people. With CIDA's support the World Food Programme (WFP) will increase the food security of 220 000 disaster-affected people and improve the nutritional status of 15 000 children under the age of five. Project activities include the large-scale distribution of emergency life-saving food assistance to the displaced population and the provision of supplementary feeding to malnourished children.

Expected outputs include: distribution of emergency life-saving food assistance to the displaced population including rice and vegetable oil; provision of supplementary feeding to malnourished children including high-energy biscuits and Plumpy’ Doz. The expected intermediate outcome is reduced vulnerability of crisis-affected people especially women and children.