The Global Plan 2023 for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), which includes: The IFRC's strategic outlook and an overview of our work in 2023by strategic priority, enablers and by region A Federation-wide perspective, including the work of our Reference Centres and certain funding requirements across our network
This month's update on the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN)provides an update on the ongoing Power to Be III campaign and how we're using powerful storytelling to raise awareness and understanding of people who have had to flee conflict.
Because the climate crisis will require mobilization of local efforts at an unprecedented scale, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) network is launching the Global Climate Resilience Platform, with the objective of catalyzing at least CHF 1 billion in investment and support for locally-led climate action that reaches the most vulnerable. The IFRC aims to build coherence between the humanitarian, development and climate change agendas whilst promoting and implementing integrated risk management approaches at the national and local level to increase overall resilience.
The findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are clear: the humanitarian impacts from climate change will become more severe, frequent and widespread. These impacts are not just a future problem; they are already felt by communities around the world. Nor are they short or simple shocks; climate-related disasters collide with and compound other chronic causes of crisis – including extreme poverty, protracted insecurity, social and economic marginalization – so, the most vulnerable people are the hardest hit by climate change.
This policy brief, aimed at parties and stakeholders participating in COP27, outlines the IFRC’s perspective on the climate crisis and sets out recommendations most relevant to three topics central to the negotiations: adaptation, loss and damage, and climate finance as well as the cross-cutting important issue of locally-led action. Finally, we highlight on some of the ways IFRC is taking action in response to the climate crisis.
Full list and wording of resolutions passed at the Council of Delegates in Seoul, from 16-18 November 2005.
Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) projects aim to increase the access of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to early weather warnings and risk information to save lives and livelihoods. This guidanceprovides advice and recommendations for how Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the IFRC can get involved in CREWS projects.
This case study shows how community trust enabled early detection of, and response to, a dengue case by Red Cross volunteers in Indonesia. The volunteers were trainedin community-based surveillance (CBS) through the IFRC's Community Epidemic & Pandemic Preparedness Programme (CP3). You can read an interactive version of this Case Study on the Prevent Epidemics website, produced by the Resolve to Save Lives Initiative,here.
The Movement Coordination for Collective Impact Agreement (Seville Agreement 2.0) was adopted at the 2022 Council of Delegates and sets out the coordination responsibilities for the components of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It replaces the original Seville “Agreement on the Organization of the International Activities of the Components of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement” (Seville Agreement) of 1997 and the “Supplementary Measures to Enhance the Implementation of the Seville Agreement” (Supplementary Measures) of 2005.
The Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) programme isshifting its focus to increasing refugees’ employability with the goal of boosting their self-reliance and facilitating their integration into the labour market.
The IFRC envisions a world where every individual can safely, continuously and equitably access inclusive quality education opportunities so that they help and care for themselves and others and are able to strive for a better future. This strategic framework outlines how our work in education will contribute to this vision.
Climate change is already having severe impacts across our planet, bringing new and previously unimaginable challenges to the people least responsible for greenhouse gas emissions. This joint report by the IFRC, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) and Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre provides a sobering review of how just one of those challenges – the increase in deadly heatwaves – threatens to drive new emergency needs in the not-so-distant future.
This policy sets out the key elements of the IFRC’s risk management, outlining the main principles behind our risk management framework. It communicates our structured approach to managing risk and establishes a common terminology across the organization, ensuring that we use risk management systematically to inform decision-making.
The Uniting Through the Power of Football Project was spearheaded by the IFRC and implemented in partnership with Generation Amazing (GA) - the human and social legacy programme of the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy Qatar 2022. This reports highlights the project’s implementation phases with four National Societies (Argentine Red Cross, Iraqi Red Crescent Society, Myanmar Red Cross Society and Uganda Red Cross Society), the project's goals, key project components and key country outcomes with first-person accounts of the project’s impact on youth, their families and their communities. The achievements outlined in this report would not have been possible without the contribution of each national society our local partner, their leadership, and all the youth and families that have supported this project throughout the year-long hardships, as well as support from our regional offices. Scroll down to discover individual case studies from Argentina, Iraq, Myanmar and Uganda, as well as an overview of micro-projects and an infographic showing the project's successes at a glance.
All 192 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies are involved in first aid. Collectively, our network reaches millions of people every year with first aid education, training and services at the community level. This policy aims to support National Societies in the provision of quality first aid education, including by promoting the use of innovation and technology to help address gaps and reach even more communities.
