Joint Typhoon Megi Emergency Livelihoods Response in Northern Philippines

This emergency response project aims to assist some 3,000 poor women in the three provinces most devastated by Typhoon Megi, a globally Category 5 typhoon, in Northern Luzon in supporting themselves and their families as they go through the next potentially famine months after their food and livelihood sources were almost completely wiped out by the disaster. It also includes capacity -building of local governments and communities on disaster risk reduction and management and advocacy on the establishment of risk transfer mechanisms.The response will be implemented through three local partrners.