The United Nations will be allocating a total of $96.2 million for the Philippines under its revised Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) response plan in light of the coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic.
In a statement, the UN said bulk of the amount, worth $33.5 million, will be allocated to the food security and agriculture cluster.
The other large appropriations will be for health worth $23.2 million, and water, sanitation and hygiene worth $15.5 million.
“The overall objective of the revised HCT response plan is to support the government in containing the spread of the outbreak and decrease deterioration of living conditions of those most vulnerable or at risk in the affected areas,” the UN said.
Most vulnerable
According to the UN, the response plan targets 5 million of the most vulnerable people living in Covid-19 hot spot areas as well as those displaced in Mindanao that will require multisectoral humanitarian assistance.
The response plan includes interventions to earthquake-affected people in North Cotabato and Davao del Sur and to conflict-affected population in Mindanao to address their specific needs due to the pandemic.
The response approach, the UN said, will frontload humanitarian interventions in the first few months and then transition in the early recovery mode until the end of the year.