Super Typhoon Rai (Odette) December 2021
Super Typhoon Rai (Odette) December 2021
overview
Overview
Typhoon Rai made initial landfall in Siargo Island, northern Mindanao, in the Philippines, on 16 December 2021. It carried gusts up to 270 km/h with maximum sustained winds of 195 km/h. As of 21 December, at least 2.4 million people were affected across 10 regions. Around 684,000 people were displaced, with about 440,000 people still in evacuation centres. A total of 139,000 houses have been damaged, out of which 53,800 completely destroyed.
Business Guide
24 December 2021
Source:United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) | Connecting Business initiative
PDRF in Action
The Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation (PDRF) is the local OCHA/UNDP Connecting Business initiative (CBi) Member Network and represents the Filipino private sector as an observer on the UN Humanitarian Country Team. PDRF also operates a private sector Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
PDRF is organizing and mobilizing the local private sector to support the response to Typhoon Rai through its EOC, in coordination with the government and the UN system. They have organized three operational briefings to their member companies and partners (which were also attended by government and UN representatives).
PDRF has also deployed teams to the most affected provinces for rapid damage and needs assessment. In addition, PDRF is participating in the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) Response Cluster meetings, Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) and Inter-Cluster Coordination Group meetings, and Early Recovery Cluster meetings, and is in touch with the Philippine Red Cross Disaster Management Services and Operations Center.
PDRF has raised tens of thousands of dollars in financial and in-kind contributions from local companies. For example:
- Jollibee Foods Corporation and McDonalds are providing food to more than 33,000 individuals; a PDRF team is in southern Leyte making distributions.
- Makati Med sent a medical team to Siargao, where the typhoon made first landfall, and has rescued and transported 66 people.
- Air Asia is offering free seats to humanitarian workers and free cargo space to transport relief goods wherever their planes fly.
- Consunji Construction is sending teams to repair evacuation shelters in Siargao and Cebu.
- Smart Communications Incorporated through BizTalk and F&H Marketing is providing free calls and mobile phone charging services to evacuees.
- Aboitiz Foundation, Aboitiz Power, and Davao Light and Power Company sent five teams of linemen to help restore toppled power lines.
- Bounty Agro Ventures, Inc. (Bavi) has pledged to provide financial support to employees whose homes were damaged or destroyed by the typhoon.
- Support has also been received from Globe Telecom, Ayala Corporation, BPI Foundation, Inc., Pilmico Foods Corporation, RCBC, Fintech Alliance.PH, PayMaya and others.
PDRF has also issued a call for financial and in-kind donations in partnership with a wide range of companies, accessible here.
For more information, please contact CBi Philippines focal point Tiina Turunen tiina.turunen@undp.org or CBi Program Coordinator Kareem Elbayar at elbayar@un.org.
