Grab Philippines reaffirms its commitment to supporting Filipinos amidst tighter lockdowns

As key parts of the Philippines enter stricter community quarantine, Grab Philippines continues to support Filipinos on safety and hygiene, everyday value and convenience, and growth

Following the government’s implementation of the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) in the National Capital Region from August 6-20, 2021, Grab Philippines is reaffirming its commitment to supporting Filipinos on three (3) key areas: 1) Ensuring that its suite of everyday services ranging from mobility, deliveries, and cashless payment solutions continue to operate smoothly and reliably to support the needs of consumers, 2) Platform safety and hygiene, and 3) Helping local businesses and partners grow amidst the lockdown.

Grab Philippines and FoodSHAP join hands to raise food delivery standards in the Philippines

• Grab celebrates World Food Safety Day, through its launch of its Food Safety Trainings, which aims to strengthen the performance and quality of GrabFood with the help of merchant-partners and delivery-partners in delivering the highest standard of food safety to consumers.
• Grab Philippines, through its partnership with the Food Safety and Hygiene Academy of the Philippines, guides merchant- and delivery-partners on key food safety, food handling, and hygiene protocols to improve the food delivery cycle in the platform. 
• This collaboration is part of the ongoing efforts in raising the standards in the food delivery industry in the Philippines.

In conjunction with World Food Safety Day, Grab Philippines today announced new initiatives to raise the bar for safety, hygiene, and quality standards in the food delivery industry. Through Grab Philippines’ partnership with the Food Safety and Hygiene Academy of the Philippines (FoodSHAP), and additional measures to help ensure cleanliness, safety, and quality throughout the entire food delivery life cycle. These efforts ladder up to Grab’s broader GrabProtect program where Grab Philippines continues to raise the bar for food safety and quality - giving consumers greater peace of mind that their food orders are prepared following strict safety and quality standards. 

Grab, DA team up to help Filipino farmers, agripreneurs through digitalization

(L-R) Grab Philippines President Brian Cu, Dept of Agriculture
Secretary William Dar, GrabExpress Philippines Head Jacq Lim

Together with the Department of Agriculture, Grab Philippines through its GrabExpress on-demand delivery service has launched its partnership for the Kadiwa ni Ani at Kita Program whereby customers across Metro Manila can purchase fresh produce and meats from the DA’s eKadiwa website (http://www.ekadiwa.da.gov.ph/) and be delivered through GrabExpress, thus supporting farmers and agripreneurs in the Philippines amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

As the everyday everything app, Grab proudly supports the Department of Agriculture’s vision of unlocking the many potentials of agriculture and agripreneurship through technology and innovation.

Grab, the leading every day everything app in Southeast Asia, together with the Department of Agriculture (DA), announced a partnership that would protect and support the livelihoods farmers and agripreneurs through on-demand delivery service for DA’s eKadiwa online marketplace initiative.