Learning from Yolanda: Strengthening the Philippines’ disaster preparedness and response with family food packs

This case study summarizes the implementation of these actions in 2015– 2017, as well as subsequent support WFP has provided to enhance the Government’s disaster preparedness and response capacity in logistics and supply chain management. The government response to Super Typhoon Yolanda highlighted many operational bottlenecks impacting humanitarian efforts in the Philippines.

According to the study, the success factors for mechanized packing systems for the next eemergency includes:

1. Efficient, cost saving and sustainable
2. Prepositioning of family food packs before an emergency, leading to faster response
3. Providing a solution to a pre-identified gap in response
4. Government buy-in and investment to sustain long-term production
5. Flexible funding to allow resources to be transferred from one activity to another