The Commission on Audit (COA) described the relief operations in the aftermath of super typhoon Yolanda or Haiyan as “chaotic and crazy.” In a Senate hearing Monday, COA chair Grace Pulido-Tan said the agency will come up with a report on disaster response systems following the typhoon that killed more than 6,000 people in November 2013. COA’s findings confirmed what many observers long pointed out but the government dismissed. Tan said, “There was really no one calling the shots, doing coherent coordination…Everybody was at a loss.” In the aftermath of the typhoon, international aid poured in but Tan said most went straight to beneficiaries, instead of through agencies like the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
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