ACCORD SitRep #4 M7.8 Mindanao Earthquake

Limited food stocks and uneven access to assistance persist. Fishing has not resumed in some coastal areas because of absent advisories and rough seas, while loss of homes, assets and income increases debt and harmful coping risks. Priorities are food packs and ready-to-eat food, cash-for-food where markets function, fishing recovery kits, cash-for-work for debris clearing, and resilient livelihood recovery grants.

Water systems and household sanitation facilities are damaged or disrupted. Some communities have limited safe drinking water and rely on visibly turbid hand-pump or deep-well water, creating contamination and health risks; sanitation conditions in evacuation sites and open spaces remain insufficiently assessed. Priorities are jerry cans, filtration systems, hygiene kits, waste support and water trucking, followed by repairs to barangay water systems and communal handwashing and bathing facilities.

Families remain displaced because of damaged homes, precautionary evacuation and continuing aftershocks. Evacuation centers and open spaces face inadequate tents, tarpaulins, privacy and essential household items, while some designated centers are structurally unsafe. Priorities are emergency shelters, tarpaulins, sleeping kits, household items and solar lamps, followed by temporary or transitional shelter, Build Back Safer orientation, and longer-term core shelter support in safe locations.

Health: injured people need treatment, medicines, first-aid supplies, emergency health teams and safe-water support; damaged health stations require rehabilitation. Protection: displaced people face overcrowding, distress, access barriers and elevated risks for women, children, older people, persons with disabilities and Indigenous Peoples; priorities include PFA, inclusive registration, protection monitoring, safe WASH and lighting, dignity kits, child-friendly spaces and referral pathways. Education: damaged schools and WASH facilities have suspended classes with no confirmed resumption in some areas; priorities include structural assessments, temporary learning spaces, school supplies, PFA and repair or rehabilitation.