IFRC Disaster Response Emergency Fund 2026 Annual Plan

IFRC Disaster Response Emergency Fund 2025 Annual Report

The IFRC-DREF experienced a pivotal year in 2025, continuing to provide fast, flexible and locally led humanitarian financing in an increasingly complex global crisis landscape. With CHF 77.4 million allocated across 170 operations, the fund supported 83 National Societiesand reached nearly 15 million peopleaffected by crises, including floods, population movement, epidemics, earthquakes and other emergencies. These are just some of the key highlights contained in the IFRC-DREF 2025 Annual Report, which provides detailed reporting on its emergency allocations, anticipatory action and operational performance. As the report explains, 2025 was also a year of transition, marking the final year of the 2021–2025 Strategic Ambition and the move towards the 2026–2030 strategic phase, with renewed emphasis on faster access to funding, stronger localization, accountability and learning.

Global Route-Based Migration Programme 2025-2030: Europe and Central Asia

The IFRC's Global Route-Based Migration Programmeis the IFRC's operationalization of its route-based approach, launched in 2021 and now extended through 2030. This document outlines Europe's regional strategy for delivering humanitarian assistance, protection, and humanitarian diplomacy along some of Africa’s key migration routes. As part of the five-year extension of the Global Route-Based Migration Programme, the document sets out priorities, targets, and activities across 16 National Societies to strengthen cross-border collaboration and provide coordinated support to people on the move and host communities.

Global Route-Based Migration Programme 2025-2030: Africa

The IFRC's Global Route-Based Migration Programmeis the IFRC's operationalization of its route-based approach, launched in 2021 and now extended through 2030. This document outlines Africa's regional strategy for delivering humanitarian assistance, protection, and humanitarian diplomacy along some of Africa’s key migration routes. As part of the five-year extension of the Global Route-Based Migration Programme, the document sets out priorities, targets, and activities across 18 National Societies to strengthen cross-border collaboration and provide coordinated support to people on the move and host communities.

Global Route-Based Migration Programme 2025-2030

The IFRC's Global Route-Based Migration Programme is the IFRC's operationalization of its route-based approach, launched in 2021 and now extended through 2030. This is the updated programmatic document for delivering humanitarian assistance, protection, and humanitarian diplomacy along key migration routes across Africa, the Americas, Europe and Central Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa. Following the extension of the Programme through 2030, this document outlines its strategic priorities, operational approach, and ambitions to strengthen route-based responses and cross-border collaboration to support people on the move and host communities.

IFRC Disaster Response Emergency Fund

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ Disaster Response Emergency Fund (IFRC-DREF) is an efficient, fast, transparent, and localized way of getting funding directly to local humanitarian actors – both before and after crisis hits.

The Global Migration and Displacement Platform

Our IFRC Global Migration and Displacement Platform unites local and global action to ensure that people at risk of displacement, people on the move, and the communities that host them, live with dignity, safety and opportunity.

Supporting people on the move

The fundamental principle of humanity runs through all of our work on migration and displacement. Regardless of their legal status, states must protect all migrants’ safety, dignity and well-being and make sure they have access to essential services.Explore our policies, resolutions and strategies that guide our everyday work supporting people on the move.

Uneven rains, unequal impact: Drought and hunger in Northern Kenya. The IFRC and the Kenya Red Cross respond.

Alliance for the Amazon: For a resilient and sustainable future

Floods: Key Messages

Key hazard-specific messages for individuals and communities on how to prepare for, and stay safe during, floods.

IFRC delivers critical supplies to eastern DRC amid ongoing Ebola outbreak

Kinshasa/Nairobi/Geneva,04June2026-The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)has deliveredon 3 Junea critical shipmentofSafe and Dignified Burial (SDB) kits and body bagstoBunia, in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the ongoing Ebola outbreak continues to claim lives and strain already fragile health systems.Thisshipmentwas airlifted from Dubai to Entebbe (Uganda) andthendepartedfor Bunia by road on 29 May 2026. Itcontained13 SDB kits, supportingapproximately 300 safe and dignified burials. The land route from Entebbe to Bunia takes approximately seven days, underscoring the logistical complexity of reaching affected populations in this remote part of the country.A second shipment, pre-positioned in Kinshasa, is scheduled to arrive in Bunia by air within the week. With the airport now reopened, operational goods can be delivered more quickly. The cargo includes 10 SDB kits and 300 body bags.Theseshipments, part of a broader CHF 2.2 million procurement effort, willprovideoperational equipmentneeded by Red Cross teams tocontinue performingsafe and dignified burials,one of the most vital tools incontainingthe spread of Ebola.“EverySafe and Dignified Burialkit that arrives, and every burial conducted safely and respectfully, helps break a potential chain of transmission. Our volunteers are working in extraordinarily difficult conditions, and they need all the support we can provide, including these supplies, now,” said Bruno Michon, IFRC Ebola response Operations Manager in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Safe and dignified burials are not just a logistical task — they are a frontline public health intervention and an act of respect for families in their most painful moments. Getting these supplies to our teams in eastern DRC is a race against the virus.The IFRC calls onthe international community,donorsand partners to support the regional emergency appeal to ensure that communities in DRC and across the region receive the full scope of life-savingassistancethey urgently need.Link to photos: https://shared.ifrc.org/collections/~2e8af4bc27For more information or to set up an interview contact:[email protected] Kinshasa: Catherine Kamatu, +254 728 815 266In Nairobi: Susan Mbalu, +254 733 827 654  In Geneva: Tommaso Della Longa +41 79 708 4367 | Paolo Cravero +41 79 894 8396

Wildfires: Key Messages

Key hazard-specific messages for individuals and communities on how to prepare for, and stay safe during, wildfires.

Cyclones: Key Messages

Key hazard-specific messages for individuals and communities on how to prepare for, and stay safe during, cyclones.

Landslides: Key Messages

Key hazard-specific messages for individuals and communities on how to prepare for, and stay safe during, landslides.