Landslides: Key Messages
Key hazard-specific messages for individuals and communities on how to prepare for, and stay safe during, landslides.
Key hazard-specific messages for individuals and communities on how to prepare for, and stay safe during, landslides.
Learn about the IFRC's strategic objectives for the Disaster Response Emergency Fund in the coming years: enabling local action, saving more lives by anticipating crises and acting earlier, and increasing the value of the DREF in protracted, slow onset and complex events.
The 2021 annual plan for the IFRC's Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) and Forecast-based Action (now known as the Anticipatory Pillar of the DREF).
The annual report and financial overview for the IFRC's Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) in 2020.
Building on our unique added value and expertise, this document articulates what the Movement is ready to do collectively to address the climate crisis. Our objective is to reduce the current and future humanitarian impacts of climate change and to support people to thrive in the face of it. We will work across four pillars of action: climate-smart disaster risk reduction, early action and preparedness; health; climate displacement; and climate-resilient livelihoods and services and sustainable water resource management). We will prioritize reducing our own carbon footprint as a cross-cutting consideration in all we do. Our activities will tackle prevention, preparedness, response and recovery to address and reduce the impacts of climate-related shocks and hazards to support the longer-term resilience of communities.
Following the collapse of an alumina waste reservoir in Hungary in 2010, a toxic wave of 'red sludge' flooded the surrounding area, destroying villages and contaminating the land. This case study presents the key elements of the Hungarian Red Cross response to this disaster and aims to raise awareness of technological and biological (CBRN) hazards. Click here to learn more about technological and biological hazard preparedness.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) works globally to help 160 million people every year with and in support of 191 member National Societies. The IFRC’s vision is to inspire, encourage, facilitate and promote at all times all forms of humanitarian activities by National Societies, with a view to preventing and alleviating human suffering, and thereby contributing to the maintenance and promotion of human dignity and peace in the world. There is a National Red Cross or Red Crescent Society in almost every country in the world and we support them both in their programming and in developing their capacities as strong, local organisations.
The IFRC’s Health and Care Framework sets out our contribution to healthier, more resilient communities and individuals. It presents the collective priorities and programming modalities that define our workin health and care. It illustratesa pathway for National Societies’ engagement with public health authorities in their auxiliary role around health and care. And itlinks the work of the IFRC in health and care to the global agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Impact-based forecasting provides the information needed to act before disasters to minimise the socio-economic costs of weather and climate hazards. Organizations and individuals can make critical decisions to ensure that resources and supplies are in place to take early action and to respond as soon as it is safe to do so. Learn more about early warning, early action.
On 31 October, 221,037,360 TRY was transferred to 1,789,603 individuals living under temporary and international protection in Türkiye. The cash transfer included the severe disability top-up of 6,285,000 TRY. The total amount of cash transfers since IFRC took over the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) in partnership with the Turkish Red Crescent (TRC) is 2,029,363,740 TRY. Outreach teams help the most vulnerable to receive their ESSN cards TRC outreach teams are implementing card delivery activities to vulnerable groups to reduce negative coping strategies. The teams conducted 400 outbound calls to households who became eligible in September, but have not collected their cards yet.
COVID-19 is exacerbating the immense mental toll on the millions of people around the world already living through disasters, conflicts and emergencies, who are routinely exposed to distressing experiences such as losing loved ones, homes and livelihoods. This report offers experiences and recommendations from the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement on how to best support people's mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Early warning is one of many important tools that contribute to the prevention of disasters and preparedness for hazards and threats. A well-prepared National Society or NGO will understand and promote the role of people-centred early warning systems (EWS) in reducing disaster risk. These guiding principles are one of a set of guides prepared by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), along with the guides for vulnerability and capacity assessment (VCA),public awareness and public educationand contingency planning,to provide a solid toolkit for disaster risk reduction/management practitioners. If you are from a National Society, you can access the completeCommunity Early Warning Systems Training Toolkit on FedNethereand the related field guide here.
On 31 August 327,422,960 TRY was transferred to 1,770,580 individuals (311,430 households) living under temporary and international protection in Türkiye. The transfer amount included the quarterly top-up of 107,804,600 TRY, which is transferred every three months to eligible households, aiming to bring equity between small and large eligible households. The previous top-up took place in May and was followed by two instalments of the economic top-up in June and July to mitigate the impact of COVID-19, bringing the total number of consecutive top-ups to four. This aimed to bring some financial relief to households receiving support through the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) during these challenging times.
From the outset of COVID-19, and on a global basis, since January 2020, National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have been working to prevent, address and respond to the pandemic and to reduce the economic, social and psychological impacts of the virus, with support from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). This report analyses the disproportionate impacts the pandemic has on migrants and refugees—from border closures to increased barriers to basic services. Find out more about our worksupporting people on the moveandresponding to COVID-19.
In June 2020, the EU-funded Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) programme reallocated its resources to provide additional cash assistance to 1.7 million vulnerable refugees in Türkiye in order to address the COVID socio-economic impacts. IFRC and Turkish Red Crescent (TRC) teams began joint visits to the offices of local authorities, Halkbank branches and (I)NGOs to gather information on the impact of COVID-19 on the implementation of the ESSN as well as on the lives of the affected populations. IFRC and TRC also started conducting a first-ever remote focus group discussion format to adapt to the COVID-19 context.