This document aims at providing National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies with an overview of some dedicated funding sources for climate change. The guide also provides some basic information on how to access these funds.
This guide aims to support National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ engagement on national level policy discussions regarding climate change adaptation, particularly through the development of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) by their respective governments.
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 guide has been developed to specifically support Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and IFRC staff to more systematically integrate risk reduction measures into their planning. By describing in detail what key issues need to be considered and when, this guidance aims at ensuring that risk reduction measures are taken into account in different sectors and contexts.
This document by the Flood Resilience Allianceprovides detail on the conceptual framework behind the Flood Resilience Measurement for Community (FRMC) and explains how it is applied practically, including the software used.
The IFRC's Urban Action Kit is a quick-start, low-cost, do-it-yourself guide to urban resilience activities that will increase a community-based organization’s visibility and engagement on urban issues. Activities in the kit require little to no funding. They are short-term and use existing networks and skills. The kit is available to download in English, French, Spanish and Arabic below. It is available in additional languages on the Global Disaster Preparedness Center website.
This strategy provides inspiration and direction for National Societies onhow to deliver community health work in line with the IFRC's Health and Care Framework 2030 and Strategy 2030.
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.
A short introductory document on Action Learning: an IFRC endorsed tool to help National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies work through difficult problems and identify creative and workable solutions.
The National Society Development (NSD) compact is a policy document which aims to ensure that support to NSD is aligned with the priorities defined by each National Society, without duplication or gaps.It defines NSD support and how it can be effective, as well as the main roles and responsibilities for IFRC members and non-Movement actors when working together on NSD. This document is available in English, French, Arabic and Spanish via the links below and in Russian here. It can be read alongside the National Society Development Framework.
Rules and procedures for Regional Conferences of the International Federation of Red Cross an Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), amended and adopted by the 21st Session of the General Assembly in Antalya, November 2017.
This strategy articulates National Societies’ and IFRC core strengths and common purpose in migration, setting out aims and objectives to be achieved over a 5-year timeframe, from 2018 to 2022.Migration is anarea of strong International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movementcollaboration and coordination, and this strategy is envisagedas a stepping stone towards a future Movement migration strategy,which incorporates the work of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)more fully. Download the strategy below in English, French, Arabic and Spanish and in Russian here. And click here to read the IFRC Migration policy.
In 2012, fewer people were reported to have died or been affected as a result of disasters than any other year during the previous decade, according to figures presented in this report. While these numbers are positive news, they also reflect the absence of major events like the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar in 2008 or the 2010 Haiti earthquake. We have learned from these major disasters. At the same time we must continue to improve and innovate to make disaster preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery more effective and accountable. With these objectives in mind, this year’s World Disasters Report focuses on the rapid spread of technologies, especially information and communication technologies, which is changing humanitarian action and humanitarians, too.
Our 2014 World Disasters Report looked at different aspects of how culture affects disaster risk reduction (DRR) and how disasters and risk influence culture. The report asks, for example, what should be done when people blame a flood on an angry goddess (River Kosi, India, in 2008) or a volcanic eruption on the mountain god (Mount Merapi). After the tsunami in 2004, many people in Aceh (Indonesia) believed that Allah had punished them for allowing tourism or drilling for oil. And similar beliefs were widespread in the United States regarding Hurricane Katrina, showing God’s displeasure with aspects of the behaviour of the people who live in or visit New Orleans. Most people who live in places that are exposed to serious hazards are aware of the risks they face, including earthquakes, tropical cyclones, tsunami, volcanic eruptions, floods, landslides and droughts. Yet they still live there because, to earn their living, they need to or have no alternative. Coasts and rivers are good for fishing and farming; valley and volcanic soils are very fertile; drought alternates with good farming or herding. Culture and beliefs, for example, in spirits or gods, or simple fatalism, enable people to live with risks and make sense of their lives in dangerous places. Sometimes, though, unequal power relations are also part of culture, and those who have little influence must inevitably cope with threatening environments.
