Southern Africa Cluster Plan 2021
IFRC Southern AfricaCountry Cluster Plan for 2021.
IFRC Southern AfricaCountry Cluster Plan for 2021.
IFRC Country Plan for Malawi in2021.
This Tip Sheet provides a summary of top tips from the IFRC'sStep-by-Step Guide for Rental Assistance to People Affected by Crisis. It is designed to introduce the reader to some of the key concepts related to Rental Assistance Programming. For those requiring further information please refer to the guide.
People forced to leave their homes by a crisis would often prefer to rent a room, an apartment, or a house rather than live in a makeshift shelter or camp. This is particularly the case in urban areas. Rented accommodation can be used to rest, and provides safety and protection whilst households recover and decide what to do next: move on, return, settle, or reconstruct. The objective of this step-by-step guide is to provide a framework for how to plan, design and implement a successful rental assistance programme. Examples and tools have also been included to practically illustrate and support successful programme delivery. You can find a summary of this guide in the Tip Sheet for Rental Assistance Programming.
These guidelines provide advice on how best to support disaster-affected communities to meet their immediate shelter needs through dignified, appropriate and durable shelter solutions. The guidelines are designed to help those preparing for, planning, managing and implementing shelter relief operations to decide whether or how the IFRC shelter kit can assist in meeting post-disaster shelter needs.
This advisory note offersguidance to National Societies on the process of revising their Statutes. Section one explains the need for regular revision. Section 2 highlights the elements conducive to a successful revision process. And Section 3 provides an overview of support available to National Societies for this process.
Policy on internal displacement adopted by the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement during the Council of Delegates in Nairobi, November 2009.
This Code of Conduct seeks to guard our standards of behaviour. It is not about operational details, such as how one should calculate food rations or set up a refugee camp. Rather, it seeks to maintain the high standards of independence, effectiveness and impact to which disaster response NGOs and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement aspires.
Young people are key drivers in humanitarian action and development. Being meaningfully engaged as today’s and tomorrow’s leaders, volunteers, and members of affected communities, they foster community resilience. The purpose of this Policy is to set the standard in working with and for young people throughout the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies (IFRC). It serves as a global point of reference to ensure consistency in decision-making and builds on and replaces the IFRC Youth Policy and Strategy (1991) and the IFRC Youth Policy (2011).
Disasters can have devastating impacts on individuals and communities. The frequency, complexity and severity of impacts are likely to increase in the future due to factors such as climate change, displacement, conflict, rapid and unplanned urbanization, technological hazards and public health emergencies. This policy covers our approach to all kinds of disasters, in all contexts, including fragile, protracted and conflict situations, in both urban and rural areas. It promotes integrated approaches so that all stages of the disaster risk management continuum are considered together in a coherent way, replacing the previous IFRC policies on Disaster Preparedness (1999), Emergency Response (1997), Post-emergency Rehabilitation (1999) and Linking Relief, Rehabilitation and Development (2001).
The Cost of Doing Nothingpresents an analysis showing that if no urgent action is taken now, the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance annually due to the climate crisis could double by 2050. Similarly, financial costs could balloon to 20 billion US dollars per year. In contrast with this pessimistic scenario, the report also shows that, if appropriate climate adaptation measures are taken now, these figures could also stabilize, and even drop. By investing in climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction—building up resilience in communities, countries and regions at risk—and by improving early warning and anticipatory humanitarian action, the world can avoid a future marked by escalating suffering and ballooning response costs.
This framework sets out how we intend to keep pace with the changing operational, scientific and policy landscapes on climate, defining a stronger role for the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement both through programmes in the field and advocacy in the corridors of power.
This brochure provides an overview of the Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It explains why we need the Fundamental Principles, how they came about and the challenges our Movementfaces in putting them into practice.
This brochure offers an overview of the IFRC's long-standing Youth as Agents of Behavioural Change (YABC) project and how it supports the promotion of a culture of non-violence and peace around the world.
The purpose of this framework is to capture the basic principles of National Society development. It is intended to guide leaders from National Societies responsible for making decisions that will affect the futures of their organizations. It is relevant to National Societies operating in resource-rich as well as resource-poor environments. This framework is available in English, Arabic, French and Spanish below and in Russian here. It can be read alongside the National Society Development Compact.