The document outlines a holistic relief operations plan called "Bayanihan Relief Operations" with the following key elements: 1) It aims to provide relief beyond just immediate needs by addressing physiological, psychological and social needs through a community-based approach in order to aid transition from relief to recovery. 2) The plan focuses on empowering victims by engaging them in relief efforts and prioritizing the most vulnerable through coordination of stakeholders and an "adopt a community" approach. 3) Components include resource mobilization, volunteer training, community organizing, feeding programs for vulnerable groups, and monitoring/evaluation to ensure sustainability and impact.

1. “BAYANIHAN RELIEF OPERATIONS”
Bridging Disaster Response to
Recovery: A Holistic, Focused,
Empowering and Sustainable Relief
Operations

2. Context/General Ground Condition
• No ordinary calamity with a community left with no houses
and massive destruction of properties and source of
livelihood, death of loved ones, local officials as victims
• Destruction is widespread unprecedented in the history of
calamities in the country
• Relief operations are generally touch and go (Distribute –
Leave)
• Social breakdown and lawlessness is manifesting in some
areas
• Hijacking of relief goods is happening
• Massive internal and external assistance available but
absorption capacity of the mainstream institutions is wanting
(i.e, failure to coordinate groups doing relief ops, lack of
facilities to transport resources for relief, etc)
• Reactive concept of relief operations wanting of a systematic
approach to extend the benefits to the vulnerable victims

5. Resource Mobilization
Setting up of Collection Centers, Collection of Pledges,
Procurement of Good, Packing of Relief Goods, Recruitment of
Volunteers for the Operation
Coordination with Partners
Coordination with partners for resource mobilization,
coordination with local authorities, coordination with PCG,
PAF, AFP and PNP
Ground Preparation on
Target Community
Setting up Platform and Mechanism for Continuing Relief
Operations, Organizing the Beneficiaries, Setting up of
Command Post, Arrangement for the Volunteers
Orientation of Volunteers
Orientation of CO, Medical , Paramedical and Psychologist
Volunteers and Local Ground Volunteers
Transport of Resources
Transportation of Volunteers and Relief Supplies and Goods to
the target areas
Distribution to Beneficiaries
and Documentation
Distribution of Relief Goods to the Most Vulnerable: Families
with children, elderly and sick members. Documentation of the
system and process of the distribution system
Continuing Community
Intervention (CO)
Community Organizing for Reconstruction, Continuing Feeding
Program for the Children, Elderly and the Sick, Continuing
Medical Mission

6. Core Principles
• Bayanihan – bringing together all stakeholders of diverse
expertise, capacity and capabilities for one purpose
• Holistic – attempt address the physiological, psychological
and social needs
• Developmental – laying down the ground work the
transition from relief to recovery
• Empowering – engages the victims to be part of the relief
effort and work hand-in hand with the local authorities
• Sustainable – a continuing holistic relief that can be
continued by the local stakeholders
• Impact Base – application of evaluation and monitoring
mechanism of the operation
• Transparency – full documentation, resource control and
audit of the whole operations

7. Community Organizing Based Relief
Operations
• Relief operation that addresses the vulnerability of the
victims in addressing their:
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Need for Food
Psychological Trauma
Vulnerability to Social Shocks/Breakdown
Means to communicate to members of the family elsewhere
• Relief operations that empower and involve the victims of
a calamity in prioritizing the most vulnerable victims
assistance in keeping order of the operations
• Relief operations that maximize the coordination of all
stakeholders (donors, beneficiaries, volunteers and
authorities)
• Relief operations that focus on identified vulnerable area
where the relief ops matter most employs the “adopt a
community approach”

8. Project Components
• Resource Mobilization
• Networking, Partnership and Coordination with
Government Agencies and Authorities
• Volunteer Recruitment and Training
• Asset Based Community Organizing
• Feeding Program for the Vulnerable Victims:
Children, Elderly, Sick and the Pregnant Women
• Monitoring, Evaluation and Documentation

9. Project Management Structure
Project Manager
Finance/Control
Resource
Mobilization
Ground
Operations
Volunteer
Management
Networking/
Coordination
Government
Coordination

10. Recruitment, Training and
Deployment of Volunteers
Profiling of the Target
Community to be Adopted
Profiling and
Documentation of the
Victims per household
Setting up of the
community kitchen for
feeding
Setting up of the adopted
community command
center
Mobilization/engagement
of local human resource
Execution of the
Bayanihan relief operation
Resource
Mobilization/External and
External for a continuing relief
& towards reconstruction
Resource
Mobilization/External and
External for a continuing relief
& towards reconstruction
Networking with
donors/sponsors for the initial
focused reconstruction
Engagement of volunteers to
help in the reconstruction of
houses and other vital centers
Organizing of the community
to take over the operations
Monitoring and Evaluation
Project endorsement to the
community for sustenance