ESSN Post Distribution Monitoring Survey, Round 11
This report offers findings from Post Distribution Monitoring surveys conducted by the Turkish Red Crescent and IFRC as part of the Emergency Social Safety Net(ESSN) programme, funded by the European Union. This round of surveys was conducted between November 2020 and January 2021 to understand the impact of the ESSN on helping families meet their basic needs and cope with economic shocks, such as COVID-19.
ESSN Intersectoral Vulnerability Study
The Turkish Red Crescent and IFRC conducted a large-scale remote study as part of the Emergency Social Safety Net programme, funded by the European Union, to understand the severity of humanitarian conditions across different refugee groups in Türkiye.
The study ran from August 2020 to February 2021 and found that the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 have significantly eroded the ability of refugees to meet their basic needs. And while cash assistance has provided refugees with an important financial buffer, people are still resorting to negative coping strategies to get by.
You can download the full study report or a summary factsheet below.
Please note this report was produced prior to the Republic ofTürkiye changing its name, and therefore refers to 'Turkey' throughout.
DREF Annual Plan 2022
This annual plan provides an overview of Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) activity between 2015-2021 and sets out our vision and strategic objectives for the fund in 2022 and beyond.
National Society Development Framework (Russian)
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.
Socioeconomic impacts for refugees in Türkiye one year on from COVID-19
More than one year since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Türkiye is in the process of recovering. The aftershocks of this pandemic will be felt for years to come, with existing vulnerabilities only compounding.
The Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) programme provides monthly unrestricted and unconditional cash assistance to over 1.5 million vulnerable refugees, to support them meet their basic needs and indirectly assists them cope with the negative economic consequences of COVID-19.
This report presents findings from a Post Distribution Monitoring survey, conducted between May and September 2021,to understand the impact of the cash assistance on households.
Please note that this report was produced prior to the Republic ofTürkiye changing its name, and therefore refers to 'Turkey' throughout.
Case Study: Community-based surveillance in Indonesia (Bahasa)
Recent large-scale epidemics and pandemics have demonstrated that it takes an inclusive and collaborative effort engaging communities to effectively prevent, detect, and respond to significant infectious disease threats and minimize their effects.
Indonesia is prone to hazards such as floods, earthquakes, and tsunamis. A vast and highly-populated archipelago is also at risk for epidemic and pandemic diseases due to its natural hazard profile, large population and density, high movement of people, limited healthcare capacities and coverage, and low level of health literacy in many communities, among other factors. These characteristics increase the risk of disease outbreaks in communities.
Community members are usually the first to know when a suspicious or unusual health event has occurred in their community – so enabling, empowering, and equipping communities to recognize and respond to public health threats in their midst not only makes sense but also forms an essential foundation for the concept of community-based surveillance (CBS).
To operationalize this approach and strengthen community-level readiness in Indonesia, the IFRC and the Indonesia Red Cross have undertaken theCommunity Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness Programme (CP3).
This Case Study is also available in English and French.
Data protection: overview and best practices
A set of principles and practices to ensure that personal data is collected, used and protected in a way that considers individuals’ privacy and any risks that may come to them from not adequately safeguarding their data.
Drowning just below the surface: The socioeconomic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had major economic, as well as health, impacts on every nation in the world. It has amplified existing inequalities, created new ones, and destabilized communities—reversing development gains made in recent decades.
The enormous socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 are wide-ranging and have not affected everyone equally.Throughout this pandemic, those facing the greatest vulnerabilities have been the people and groups most neglected by society—those who were already drowning just below the surface.
This report, featuring brand new research from Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies around the world, sheds light on who has been most impacted by the pandemic and how.It also examines how Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have adapted their responses to support newly and increasingly vulnerable communities—many of whom have also been affected by large-scale disasters and other complex humanitarian crises.
DREF Mid-year Report 2021
During the first six months of 2021, the Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) and Forecast-based Action (FbA) by the DREF allocated more than 17 million Swiss francs across 58 disasters, supporting more than 11 million people. Learn more in this mid-year report.
Technical Guidelines for National Society Programming Against Child Marriage
This technical guide can be used by the IFRC and National Societies when designing and delivering programming to prevent or respond to child marriage, either in humanitarian settings or in longer-term development settings. It can also assist in developing protection, gender and inclusion (PGI) programming focused specifically on child marriage prevention or response.
Tip Sheet: Maintaining confidential digital dialogue during humanitarian emergencies
Maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and authenticity of communications with the people we support is of fundamental importance in humanitarian settings. This tip sheet, produced jointly by IOM, OCHA, The Centre for Humanitarian Data, IFRC and ICRC, offers:
An overview of the threats to confidentiality associated with digital communications in higher risk humanitarian contexts, including physical and covert surveillance, metadata, interception and hacking
Recommendations to mitigate those threats, including communication protocols, countermeasures, digital security, choice of application and digital hygiene
A set of resources that can be used to help identify suitable communications tools
OIAI Final Internal Audit Report: Myanmar Country Office, 2018
Assurance review of Myanmar Country Office, 2018.
OIAI Final Internal Audit Report – Hurricane Dorian, Bahamas, 2019
Assurance review of Hurricane Dorian, Bahamas, 2019.
IFRC Framework for Evaluation
The purpose of this Framework for Evaluation is to guide how the IFRC's evaluations are planned, managed, conducted, and utilized. It aims to promote reliable, useful, ethical evaluations that contribute to organizational learning, accountability, and our mission to best serve those in need.
The compound impact of extreme weather events and COVID-19
From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic until August 2021, extreme weather events affected at least 139.2 million people and killed at least 17,242 people in at least 433 unique events. These figures are certainly an underestimate, as they do not include estimates of numbers of people affected by extreme temperatures, or mortality during drought events.
This research, commissioned by the IFRC and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, offers a preliminary analysis of the compound impacts of extreme weather events and COVID-19. It follows a first scan of these overlapping impacts conducted in September 2020, available to read here.