The experience of COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines necessitated lockdowns and\r\ncommunity quarantines. This minimized mobility and resulted in the loss of income among\r\nfamilies below the poverty line making it difficult for them to provide for their daily needs such as food and medicine. These affected families, therefore, relied on relief assistance from the government and other private instrumentalities. But relief operation in this time of pandemic is challenged by limited manpower who will carry on the relief response. Hence, this study was\r\nconducted to determine the dimensions of public participation in relief response during the\r\nCOVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines. The study utilized a data reduction process using\r\nexploratory factor analysis. To generate data, a total of 250 respondents were conveniently\r\nchosen to answer in the survey instrument with sixty-three items. Data reduction analysis\r\nrevealed that there are eleven dimensions of public participation on relief response based on the\r\nEigenvalues of not less than 0.4. These are the sense of duty, presence of enabling environment,\r\nintegration of disaster response in the educational curriculum, practical and technical capability\r\nbuilding, value for nationalism, provision of material support, accurate information and\r\neducation campaign, resource mobilization, values-orientation, availability of sophisticated\r\ndisaster response equipment, and readiness for collaboration. If these dimensions are considered\r\nin policymaking, more and more citizens will be greatly motivated to participate in the relief\r\nresponse in times of disasters like the COVID-19 pandemic.

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