Annual report

Turkish Red Crescent Society
extended 
its scope of PGI mainstreaming to better sustain 
its child protection services beyond community 
centers. Psychosocial support, social cohesion, 
and child protection activities were held through 
mobile Child Friendly Spaces. All this happened 
within the Emergency Appeal framework that 
the IFRC launched for Ukraine and impacted 
countries in 2022.
Finally, in 
Syria
, the IFRC supported the Syrian 
Arab Red Crescent to undertake post-distribution 
monitoring, as well as beneficiary satisfaction 
surveys. Many programmes included routine 
beneficiary satisfaction assessments for the 
services received. The information collected 
from these exercises provided essential data 
that helped the National Society to gain a better 
understanding of the multidimensional and spe-
cific needs in gender and inclusion.
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Annual Report 
2022

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SPOTLIGHT
SAFEGUARDING
For the IFRC, 
safeguarding
is the responsibility 
to keep the people who use Red Cross and Red 
Crescent services safe from the misuse of power.
This is achieved by making sure that staff, vol-
unteers, programmes, and communications do 
no harm to children and adults, and that these 
people are not exposed to abuse or exploitation.
Safeguarding is so important that several IFRC 
departments share responsibility for managing 
it – the Office of Internal Audit and Investigations, 
Legal, Human Resources, Risk, senior leadership 
and programme teams work on its design and 
effectiveness.
In 2022, a new Head of Safeguarding position 
was placed in the Office of the Secretary General 
to strengthen coordination and application 
of safeguarding commitments. The role also 
provides victim-centred services as required, 
and in 2022 supported leadership to analyze 
risk scenarios and strengthen management and 
governance knowledge. The IFRC has an Integrity 
Line system for allegations and complaints.
To support the network, the IFRC partners with 
National Societies to develop policies for preven-
tion/response to sexual exploitation and abuse, 
child safeguarding, anti-harassment, and whis-
tleblower protection, and processes for effective 
screening, training, sensitive feedback mecha-
nisms, investigations, and support to survivors.
Support can include policy development, assess-
ment, certification, partnerships, and application 
of mainstreaming standards in emergencies 
or programmes.
In 2022, 12 National Societies adopted new 
Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse 
policies and nine National Societies approved 
and adopted their own Child Safeguarding 
Policies. In addition, ten National Societies 
embarked on revising or developing appropriate 
Safeguarding policies during 2022.
Other highlights in 2022:
•
The Liberia and Uganda Red Cross societies 
completed the IFRC Child Safeguarding Risk 
Analysis as part of DREF operations. This led 
both to develop Child Safeguarding Policies, 
with support from the IFRC Capacity 
Building Fund.