The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Philippines held a ceremonial handover activity of disaster response communications equipment on January 26 at the University of the Philippines Diliman College of Science Amphitheater.

Under the Immediate Response, Recovery, and Resilience Initiatives in Typhoon Odette Affected Areas project of UNDP, the transfer aims to ensure the assets' continued use for DICT's disaster and emergency response and strengthen the agency's coordination and communications capacity.