Annual report

CONTENTS
06
A message from 
the Secretary 
General
08
2022 in 
numbers
10
Executive
summary
282
Financials
About the IFRC
IFRC workforce
How the IFRC 
is funded
Funding and 
expenditure
Partnership 
profiles
Funds
Climate and 
environment
Disasters
and crises
Health and 
wellbeing
Migration and 
displacement
Values, power 
and inclusion
Strategic and 
operational 
coordination
National 
Society 
development
Humanitarian 
diplomacy
Accountability 
and agility
Africa
Americas
Asia Pacific
Europe
MENA
Overview
16
Strategic
Priorities
74
Enabling
Functions
140
Delegations
178
Network
perspective
256

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A MESSAGE FROM THE 
SECRETARY GENERAL
Jagan Chapagain
Secretary General, CEO
International Federation of
Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
The world’s humanitarian needs continue to 
grow alarmingly and vastly outstrip the resources 
available to meet them, and the human cost of 
disasters and crises remains unacceptably high. 
And, as the number and intensity of these 
disasters continue to rise, so does the cost of 
responding to them, and accompanying affected 
communities through their recovery.
People all over the world, in developed and 
developing countries alike, will continue to need 
help to anticipate, prevent, reduce the risks of 
and mitigate the impact of any number of inter-
secting hazards.
Communities are being affected by:
•
mega trends like climate change and threats 
to the environment, migration, pandemic, 
urbanization, demographic shifts
•
the economic impacts of COVID-19 and 
international armed conflict in Ukraine, high 
inflation and energy prices, banking crises, 
uneven global growth, and the underused 
potential power of the private sector 
•
digitalization, machine learning (“AI”), 
information and communication technologies
•
social shocks such as rising unemployment, 
inequality, exclusion, and worsening health 
indicators
•
global political pressures such as disrupted 
global governance, polarization, and 
populism that can also lead to distrust
in institutions. 
6
Annual Report 
2022

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The international humanitarian system has been 
stress-tested by historic crises such as these in 
recent years. 
We can’t go on like this.
The IFRC has changed its approaches and sys-
tems so we can better meet the escalating needs 
of today and can be agile enough to meet the 
new challenges that are sure to emerge.
But one thing will not change: our commitment 
to local action. Some 16.5 million volunteers 
worked to support communities in need 
through 197,000 local branches across the 
world in 2022 – an unparalleled permanent local 
presence, backed up by the global reach and 
solidarity of the IFRC. This is the IFRC network: 
as local as possible, and as global as necessary. 
In this Annual Report, one can see how the IFRC 
has evolved its methods of addressing the global 
challenges outlined in our five Strategic Priorities, 
and how it has strengthened and streamlined 
the four Enabling Functions that underpin our 
collective work.
At the same time, our global to local sys-
tems responded to 2022’s major crises from 
Afghanistan to Ukraine, including hunger and 
cholera on the African continent, population 
movement in the Americas, and floods in Yemen. 
We overhauled the Disaster Response 
Emergency Fund (DREF) to include an anticipa-
tory action pillar and have diversified its resource 
base through an innovative Insurance mecha-
nism and Federation-wide Emergency Appeals. 
The gaps between needs and resources are 
being addressed through dedicated platforms 
such as the Global Climate Resilience Platform, 
which launched at COP 27, and the Global 
Route-Based Migration Programme, which 
expands the assistance and protection avail-
able across borders and along routes through 
Humanitarian Service Points on land, and one on 
the Mediterranean Sea. 
In public health, the IFRC worked with the African 
Union and the African Centre for Disease Control 
to create REACH, a programme to expand 
community healthcare work. National Society 
and community capacities were strengthened 
through One WASH, an integrated water, sani-
tation, and hygiene and public health initiative.
We also placed greater focus on digitalization, risk 
management, safeguarding, community engage-
ment and accountability, and organizational 
agility. Our commitment to localization through 
National Society development is stronger than 
ever, alongside humanitarian diplomacy and our 
constitutional commitment to representation 
and coordination.
This 2022 Annual Report showcases the work 
done by IFRC to support this local action through-
out the year, with a strong focus on country-level 
data. I am proud of every member and volunteer 
of our diverse global family, and of how staff,