The UNICEF-funded evidence-based planning for resilient local health systems (rEBaP) is being implemented in the Yolanda-affected local government units (LGUs) in Iloilo-Capiz-Cebu for the development of their Health Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Plans (HEPRRP) during disasters. There were a total of 19 LGUs (9 from Iloilo, 8 from Capiz, and 2 from Cebu) with 3 representative planners from each LGUs–the Municipal Health Officer (MHO), Municipal Planning and Development Officer (MPDO), and Municipal Disaster Recovery and Rehabilitation Management Officer (MDRRMO). It is premised on strategic disaster management and planning approaches using the 6+1 WHO building blocks for a functional health system: Leadership and Governance, Health Service Delivery, Medicines and Technologies, Health Financing, Information and Research, Health Human Resources, and Community Resilience. The methodology involved four training modules for the planners: Psychosocial–Psychosocial Processing (PSP), Health Emergency Management System (HEMS) training, and two workshops that concentrated on hazards mapping, surge capacity assessments, and identification of gaps with corresponding evidence-based local strategies to achieve resilience during disaster-related emergencies. These 4 training modules were spread over a span of 8 months with coaching sessions after workshops 1 and 2 (April-November 2015). The HERPRRP plan was their main deliverable by December 2016. Local strategies employed by the LGU included Memorandum of Agreement with their Inter-Local Health Zones (ILHZ) members, sister-town partnerships, cloud computing for information storage, trainings for barangay health workers, youth, and teachers on community-based PSP, use of medicinal plants in their local barangays, and stocking of medicines and emergency supplies in caves (particularly in geographically-isolated and disadvantaged areas). All 19 LGUs were on track to submit their Sanggunian Bayan (SB) ratified HERPP plans by December 2015.