The Corporate Network for Disaster Response (CNDR) is a network of business groups, associations, corporations and corporate foundations whose objective is to rationalize and institutionalize disaster management efforts of the business community.

CNDR started in 1990 as a group coordinating the responses of the business sector for the Luzon earthquake. Since then, it has been CNDR’s institutional role to mobilize the sector for disaster response. In the event of disasters, the network is mobilized to conduct damage assessments, source relief goods and financial resources from donors.

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Renewed clashes between government forces and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) prompted the residents of Barangay Tee, Datu Piang in Maguindanao, to leave their community on Sunday evening, 07 September.

Military air strikes in Datu Piang allegedly killed six civilians including two children and a pregnant teenager. Internally displaced persons (IDPs) who returned to their houses last week went back to the evacuation centers.

Police said that on 05 September, Muslim rebels stopped and took the food aid from a United Nations convoy. The food supplies were intended for those who were displaced by the continued hostilities in the South. The National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) advised humanitarian organizations and agencies to ensure appropriate coordination with the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) Regional Offices in Northern Mindanao, SOCCSKSARGEN, and the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), to ensure the safe access and delivery of relief goods.

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