The Philippines is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world. Annually, an average of 22 tropical cyclones enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility of which around 6 to 7 cause significant damage. Conflicts in Mindanao also cause intermittent cycles of forced displacement.
In 2007, OCHA established a presence in Manila to complement the Government’s response to natural disasters and to strengthen humanitarian coordination. In September 2009, Tropical Storm Ketsana devastated Metro Manila, prompting the Emergency Relief Coordinator to appoint the Resident Coordinator as also the Humanitarian Coordinator.
OCHA’s presence in the Philippines was upgraded to a country office in 2010, with a dual focus: emergency response preparedness and response to sudden onset emergencies and the protracted conflict situation in Mindanao. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs office (OCHA) in the Philippines.
In 2020 OCHA Philippines country office was scaled down to a Humanitarian Advisory Team (HAT).
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Philippines administrative level 0-4 shapefiles
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OCHA acknowledges PSA and the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) as the sources. LMB is the source of official administrative boundaries of the Philippines. In the absence of available official administrative boundary, the IMTWG have agreed to clean and use the PSA administrative boundaries which are used to facilitate data collection of surveys and censuses. The dataset can only be considered as indicative boundaries and not official.
Its updated to reflect the new areas within BARMM; It uses the new 10-digit pcode consistent with government PSGC as of 2023.
These shapefiles are suitable for database or ArcGIS joins to the [Philippines - 2020 Census Admin4 Population Statistics] (https://data.humdata.org/dataset/popn-single-year-age-sex-and-barangay-census-2020) and [ Philippines - Admin 2 Population projections using 2015 population] (https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ps-phl).
Total Population by Single-Year Age, Sex, Region, Province, City/Municipality and Barangay (admin 4) Census 2020.
It uses the new 10-digit pcode consistent with [Philippines - Subnational Administrative Boundaries] (https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ab-phl).
2020 Census Total Population by Barangay (admin4) with new 10-digit pcode with Maguindanao del Sur and Norte; Missing barangays in R12 that moved to BARMM
Based on Republic Act 8425, otherwise known as Social Reform and Poverty Alleviation Act, dated 11 December 1997, the poor refers to individuals and families whose income fall below the poverty threshold as defined by the government and/or those that cannot afford in a sustained manner to provide their basic needs of food, health, education, housing and other amenities of life. It may be estimated in terms
of percentages (poverty incidence) and total number of poor families (magnitude of poor families). Also, this dataset has been generated by combining Philippine Standard Geographic Codes (PSGC) and poverty estimates from Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).
For more details, please refer to the following documents:
https://psa.gov.ph/poverty-press-releases/referenceshttps://psa.gov.ph/poverty-press-releases/technoteshttps://psa.gov.ph/poverty-press-releases/glossaryhttps://psa.gov.ph/sites/default/files/Technical%20Notes%20on%202015%20SAE.pdf
This data refers to the cumulative number of health workers by profession and by type of facility ownership from 2010 to June 2018, based on the available data from National Database of Human Resources for Health Information System (NDHRHIS) of the Department of Health as of 30 June 2018. Data are reflective of hospitals, clinical laboratories that have self-registered in the NDHRHIS and covered 60% of licensed private and public hospitals and laboratories. Municipalities without data on public/government owned facilities does mean that there are no government-owned facilities rather that no such facilities was captured in the NDHRHIS.
The data covers all registered Pantawid IP beneficiaries regardless of their program status. The Modified Conditional Cash Transfer Program (MCCT) is a sub-component of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program which is uses modified approach in implementing the CCT program for poor families including homeless, Indigenous People and Families in Need of Special Protection (FNSP).
Shapefile (WGS 84) of thirty-three lakes of the Philippines with corresponding local name, based on the country shapefile from the Philippine Statistics Authority.