To enable the restoration of shelter, community infrastructure, and livelihoods in areas of the philippines affected by recent catastrophic and compounding impacts of typhoons and earthquakes

The Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded Catholic Relief Services - United States Conference Of Catholic Bishops $4.932 million on July 14, 2026, to enable restoration of shelter, community infrastructure, and livelihoods in Philippines areas affected by Super Typhoon Uwan, the Cebu earthquake, and Typhoon Tino in late 2025, under the East Asia and Pacific Grants Program (CFDA 19.124).

The award funds the Early Recovery for Infrastructure, Shelter, and Economic Activity in the Philippines project (Early Rise PH), a 12-month early recovery initiative operating in Catanduanes, Albay, and Cebu provinces. The project repairs damaged homes and rehabilitates priority community infrastructure using resilient construction techniques that reduce future disaster risk, restores access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene at household and community levels to prevent waterborne disease, and supports early economic recovery by restoring individual and community assets to enable disaster-affected households to regain income-earning capacity and self-reliance. Assistance is delivered through in-kind and voucher mechanisms.

Three Caritas sub-recipients—Caritas Virac Justice & Peace Inc., Social Action Center - Diocese of Legazpi, Inc., and Cebu Caritas Inc.—deliver field implementation in collaboration with CRS-USCCB. Three sub-awards, each dated August 1, 2026, represent the project's allocation across implementation areas.

The period of performance runs from July 14, 2026, to July 13, 2027. Place of performance is the Philippines.