Globally, the Philippines is the third most disaster-prone country. The B-READY project implemented its interventions in the Municipality of Salcedo in Eastern Samar province throughout a first pilot phase and a second phase focusing on institutionalizing the forecast-based cash transfers at the level of local authorities and government.

A total of 1,957 beneficiaries have been enlisted by the project in nine barangays (villages) of Salcedo . A baseline study was conducted to determine typhoon's impact on target communities. Results were feed to Global Parametrics and allowed for the development of the parametric forecast model. 

Community monitors were trained on gender inclusion and children protection, including protocol and referring of potential child abuse before, during and after the disaster. It was followed by community action plan and feedback mechanism system to increase children protection in their community. 

The B-READY Project won best innovation challenge at the 2019 SEEP Annual Conference held in Virginia, USA. SEEP is an annual conference that gathers thought leaders and practitioners to connect, engage and learn from each other about shared challenges and opportunities in global development.

B-READY first cash transfers were sent to 1,852 project participants 3 days after typhoon Ursula made landfall in Salcedo on December 24, 2020. The account creation process and prepaid card distribution were tested and then expedited. 

Community drills on pre-emptive cash transfer were held in three barangays. Residents articulated that the simulation was effective in strengthening the awareness of people on warning signals and the pre-emptive cash gave them a semblance of security and dignity for knowing what they can purchase. 

The Municipal Legislative Council (Sangguniang Bayan) of Salcedo in Eastern Samar passed a resolution adopting the parametric index as basis for pre-emptive disaster response.

A total of 1,655 beneficiaries-families received a multi-purpose cash grant of P1,780 each through the digital platform, one day before Tropical storm Dujuan (Auring) was forecasted to hit or affect the municipality of Salcedo.

End of B-READY-1 project and sharing lessons across different national, regional and global learning platforms.

Start of B-READY-2 project scaling the work undertaken in B-READY-1 to 30 villages in Salcedo and Oras Municipalities in Eastern Samar and Cotabato City in Cotabato, Mindanao. The latter two are new project locations. B-READY 2 was also implemented in North Darfur, Sudan, and Indonesia.

Floodwaters in five villages in Cotabato City reached the threshold to trigger an activation of the pre-emptive cash transfer. A total of 959 households received financial assistance with each getting PhP 2,000 (Euro 34) via their prepaid cards. 

Two days prior to the expected landfall of Typhoon Odette, the activation threshold was met, and the cash was transferred to 1,033 households with each getting PHP - 1,570,875 amounting to 27,9 euros via PayMaya. Typhoon Odette was forecasted at a low rate, when it actually reached a category 6 level of strength.