Mindanao Earthquake
Mindanao Earthquake
Your support helps displaced families recover in safety and dignity.
As of 08 September 2026, a total of 94,821 individuals remain displaced. Of these, approximately 26% are currently residing in 73 evacuation centers, while the rest are staying with host families or in other temporary shelter arrangements. An estimated 128,604 houses were damaged, with 19,320 totally damaged and 109,284 partially damaged.
UNHCR, together with its implementing partner ACCORD, provided Cash for Protection assistance from 28 to 30 July and 19 to 21 August 2026 to earthquake-affected families in the barangays of Bukid, Butuan, Butulan, Camalian, Malalan, Sugal, Tabayon, and Tanuman in Jose Abad Santos, Davao Occidental. A total of 1,185 families (approximately 4,813 individuals) received assistance, prioritizing vulnerable and at-risk populations, including Indigenous Peoples, displaced families, persons with disabilities, older persons, women, children, and those at risk of statelessness.
Emergency Situation Reports:
Of the individuals reached, there were 148 pregnant or lactating women and 146 female-headed households.
The cash assistance seeks to prevent and mitigate further protection risks by enabling affected families to address their most urgent needs, including food, medicines, shelter repair materials, and other essential household items.
Continued protection-centred humanitarian interventions remain essential to meet urgent needs, recover safely, and restore their dignity.
Beyond covering their most basic needs, some families plan to use part of the cash assistance to secure materials for shelter repair.
The Cash for Protection prioritized individuals with heightened protection risks, including 512 older persons.
Some of the vulnerable groups prioritized include Indigenous Peoples (IP) and Persons of Indonesian Descent (PID).
Protection Issues and Needs
- Access to Shelter
- Access to Safe Drinking Water
- Access to Livelihood
- Access to Safety and Security
- Access to Market
- Access to Information
- Access to Health Care
- Access to Documentation
- Access to Education
Humanitarian Response
Cash-Based Interventions (CBI)
Protection Monitoring and Community Consultations
Ways Forward
- Strengthen local government capacity for inclusive, protection-centered, and accountable responses through protection monitoring, referral systems, accessible communication, and community feedback mechanisms.
- Provide targeted and flexible assistance based on updated vulnerability assessments, prioritizing displaced families and groups with specific protection needs.
- Support safe shelter, relocation, and disaster-risk reduction through structural assessments, repairs, safe relo-cation sites, improved temporary shelter conditions, hazard mapping, early warning, evacuation planning, and safe access routes.
- Restore safe access to water and healthcare by repairing and treating water sources, promoting safe water practices, deploying mobile health and follow-up services, ensuring essential medicines, and supporting urgent referrals and transport.
- Work with local authorities to expand mobile civil registration, birth registration, document restoration, and information services while reducing transport and administrative barriers.
- Restore safe and inclusive education through school assessments and repairs, adequate temporary learning spaces, attendance monitoring, and child-friendly psychosocial support.
- Support sustainable livelihood, food security, and market recovery through grants, agricultural inputs, tools, short-term employment, and restored safe access to farms and markets.