🇵🇭 Philippines

What your government recommends

Be ready for 3 days (Go Bag)^[1][2][3]

“Ready to eat food and bottled water that can last for three days (OCD Go Bag list, as reported by PIA). An earlier OCD list: 'Easy-to-serve, ready-to-eat food enough for three days' and 'Drinking water in sealed containers'.”

Food: Pack ready-to-eat, easy-to-serve food and bottled drinking water in sealed containers to last three days. Check the Go Bag regularly (OCD advises every three months) and replace expiring items.^[1][2][3]

Recommended items

• ✓Ready-to-eat food and bottled water for three days^[1][2][3]
• ✓Important documents, sealed / in a waterproof container^[1][2][3]
• ✓Flashlight, candles, matches and whistle^[1][2][3]
• ✓Portable radio with extra batteries^[1][2][3]
• ✓First aid kit with medicines for fever, diarrhoea and wounds, plus maintenance medicines^[1][2][3]
• ✓Money, including coins^[1][2][3]
• ✓Items needed by infants, children, older people and persons with disabilities^[1][2][3]
• ✓Mobile phone with power bank and charger^[1][2][3]
• ✓Raincoat, rain boots, clothing and sanitary supplies^[1][2][3]
• ✓Sleeping bags and blanket^[1][2][3]
• ✓Rope, old newspapers and sturdy bags/containers^[1][2][3]

Good to know

• • Philippine guidance is written for natural disasters (typhoons, floods, earthquakes); no official household guidance specific to war or air raids was found.
• • No official litres-per-person water figure was found; OCD only says bottled water for three days.