Guidelines:

- The distribution process should not be influenced by political or religious motivations.

- Staff and volunteers will do door to door survey of the area affected by the disaster
- Coordination with the local coordinators and local leaders for the preparation distribution point
(venue) and list of identified beneficiaries.
- Organized the booth/counter when there is more than one distribution point.
- Local coordinators/leaders should maintain the line of the beneficiaries to ensure orderly, safety
and smooth distribution of goods.

*identification of beneficiary along with the help of local leaders will eliminate possible
duplications and identify genuine victims. It will also avoid complaints.

- If there are doubts or complaints, names of beneficiaries should be verified with latest voters list
or with the barangay lists
- Upon receiving the item/s, the beneficiary should sign after their names to ensure that they
receive the items intended for them.
- After the distribution is over, the beneficiary list shoult be verified once again, and the
distributing staff and local elder/leader as a witness, sign over it, declarinf the materials have
been distributed.
- Documentation of the relief operation
*picture taking, receipts of purchases
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DON’T’s only:

• Covering, replacing, or defacing the labels of the containers to make it appear that the goods,
equipment, or other aid commodities came from another agency or person;
• Repacking the goods, equipment or other aid commodities into containers with different markings
to make it appear that the goods came from another agency or person or were released upon the
instance of a particular agency or person;
• Substituting or replacing relief goods, equipment, or other aid commodities with the same items or
inferior/cheaper quality;
• Diverting or misdelivery of relief goods, equipment, or other aid commodities to persons other than
the rightful recipient or consignee;
• Prevention of the entry and distribution of relief goods in disaster-stricken areas, including
appropriate technology, tools, equipment, and accessories, as well as of disaster teams/experts;
• Buying, for consumption or resale, from disaster relief agencies any relief goods, equipment, or
other commodities which are intended for distribution to disaster-affected communities;
• Buying, for consumption or resale, from the recipient disaster-affected persons any relief goods,
equipment, or other aid and commodities received by them;
• Selling of relief goods, equipment, or other aid commodities intended for distribution to disaster
victims;
• Forcibly seizing relief goods, equipment, or other aid commodities intended for or consigned to a
specific group of victims or relief agency;
• Accepting, possessing, using or disposing relief goods, equipment, or other aid commodities that
were neither intended for nor consigned to him/her; and
• Making false verbal claim that the goods, equipment, or other commodity and its untampered
original containers actually came from another agency or person or were released upon the instance
of a particular agency or persons.