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The Department of Social Welfare and Development has started preparing for the onset of the La Niña phenomenon, which is expected to happen this June, by ensuring that its disaster preparedness and response strategies are in place to mitigate the possible effects of the wet season.
“The procurement process is also ongoing because what we want to happen is for the assistance to be immediately delivered when the rainy season arrives,” she said. The first mechanism features a national and local government-driven supply chain that will improve the production capacities and processes of the DSWD’s National Resource Operations Center in Pasay City, the Visayas Disaster Resource Center in Cebu, and warehouse and storage facilities across the 16 DSWD Field Offices.
As of April 29, a total of 387,124 FFPs have been prepositioned in the 10 DSWD hubs while 602,113 boxes of food packs were sent to the 66 spokes and 545,526 FFPs in the 849 last mile facilities across the country.
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