Annual report

•
In Malawi, the Red Cross completed the
IFRC PGI Organizational Assessment Tool
.
•
The Nepal Red Cross strengthened its 
comprehensive Child Safeguarding approach 
by developing a PSEA policy.
•
As part of the response to the crisis in Ukraine, 
the IFRC deployed its first ever surge PGI- 
Safeguarding delegates, who helped to 
implement safeguarding standards within 
the operation. This led to safeguarding 
action plans and PGI Surge capacities to 
scale Safeguarding into future responses.
Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility and 
is a requirement for all programming. To learn 
more, please visit 
Safeguarding | Protection, 
Gender & Inclusion (ifrc.org) Protection, Gender, 
and Inclusion Policy
, and the 
Action Plan on 
Safeguarding 2022–2025
.
Strategic Priorities
| Values, power and inclusion 
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To achieve its mandate, the IFRC focuses on 
four enabling functions that support National 
Societies to build their capacities and deliver 
programmes and services. These are strategic 
and operational coordination, National Society 
development, humanitarian diplomacy, and 
the cross-cutting function accountability 
and agility.
Strategic and operational coordination facil-
itates scaling-up collective humanitarian 
responses, increasing impact, building finan-
cial resources, developing and protecting staff 
and volunteers, and managing risks. It ensures 
that members of the IFRC network comple-
ment each other’s strengths and contributions 
as part of the larger Movement.
National Society development receives tar-
geted long-term support from the IFRC, to 
improve and enhance the services provided at 
community, local and national levels to at-risk 
and hard to reach communities.
The voices and the needs of these at-risk com-
munities are amplified by the IFRC in through 
humanitarian diplomacy, which the IFRC 
defines as the collective responsibility to per-
suade “decision makers and opinion leaders to 
act, at all times, in the interests of vulnerable 
people, and with full respect for fundamental 
humanitarian principles”.
Accountability is a fundamental aspect of 
our relationship with communities, donors 
and other partners, and within the network. 
Accountability builds trust that enables access 
to communities and to partnerships, as well as 
encouraging a productive and healthy volun-
teer and staff base.
Viewed together, all IFRC enabling functions 
help the IFRC and its network to deliver more 
effective, efficient, and appropriate services to 
at-risk communities.
ENABLING