The Philippines scored 2.5 (out of 5) in the June 2023 iteration of the INFORM (Index for Risk Management) Severity Index and is classified under “medium” INFORM severity category with a “stable” trend in the past three months. The country’s severity score in the first half of the year was driven by the Mindanao conflict and Typhoon Paeng (international name: Nalgae), latest data showed. The index is a composite indicator designed to assess the severity of humanitarian crises against a common scale using various data from publicly available sources.
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