The Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office VII (DSWD-7) currently provided technical assistance on the local government units’ administration of the Disaster Assistance Family Access Card (DAFAC) for the affected families of Typhoon Odette that hit the Central Visayas on 16 December 2021.

The DAFAC is a monitoring tool of assistance provided to disaster-affected families.

It contains the basic information of displaced family, which include if the family stay at the evacuation center, their house, or relatives’ house. It helps track the services extended to the family, from the start of disaster to the Early Recovery Phase.

“Effective data management is important in the services to typhoon-affected families. Hence, we are working hand in hand with concerned LGUs in the administration of DAFAC and encoding of the information gathered through DAFAC,” said Regional Director Rebecca Geamala.

The Local Government Units (LGUs) through the City and Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office (C/MSWDO), together with the DSWD-7 field staff of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), Kalahi-CIDSS, and Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP), assisted in the administration and encoding of the DAFAC.

As of 17 January 2022, region 7 has recorded a total of 3,749,942 persons or 1,164,364 families affected families based on the report received from the Local Government Units (LGUs).

The DSWD-7 has released Php 141.8 million worth of relief assistance consisting of 254,582 family food packs and Php 6.9 million worth of non-food items.

 Aside from the food and non-food assistance, DSWD-7 has also extended cash assistance to typhoon-affected families through the Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situation (AICS). To date, DSWD-7 disbursed and paid Php 70.6 million to at least 14,131 beneficiaries from the eleven cities/towns in Negros Oriental and Bohol. ###

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