Annual report

•
583,695 people reached with health 
services (humanitarian crisis) and 93,725
(earthquake)
•
490,000 people reached with livelihoods 
services (humanitarian crisis) and 18,196 
(earthquake)
•
73,290 people reached with WASH services 
(humanitarian crisis) response and 93,725 
(earthquake)
•
8,750 people reached with shelter services 
(humanitarian crisis) response and 35,141 
(earthquake)
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Annual Report 
2022

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2022 progress
The IFRC’s report of its 2021 Global Climate 
Action and Environmental Sustainability Survey 
was published in March 2022, and the findings 
demonstrated the depth and breadth of National 
Society action around the world.
The priorities revealed by the survey include 
scaling up climate-smart disaster risk reduction, 
preparedness, and anticipatory/early action, fol-
lowed by reducing the health impacts of climate 
change. National Societies indicated that they 
need increased knowledge and capacity, as well 
as increased access to funding, to enable them 
to reach more people in need with the services 
they need to keep themselves safe now and 
in the future.
In support of Red Cross and Red Crescent work 
in anticipatory action, the IFRC’s Operational 
Framework for scaling up Anticipatory Action 
2021–2025 was approved and disseminated 
widely across the network.
In 2022, IFRC became the lead of the 
Early 
Warnings for All Initiative
Pillar 4 on prepar-
edness and response, focusing on action at 
community level, and supporting Pillar 3 on risk 
communication and community engagement.
Support for nature-based solutions – actions 
to protect, sustainably manage or restore an 
ecosystem that can protect against disaster 
and climate risks - was solidified with the launch 
of 
The Nature Navigator
, a guide for National 
Societies who wish to implement nature-based 
solutions in their work.
Nature-based solutions can include protecting 
and restoring forests, the protection of man-
groves and coral reefs, the conservation and 
restoration of wetlands, or the creation of urban 
greenspaces.
In 2022, the IFRC continued to oversee and 
support the implementation of the global 
USAID nature-based solutions project in 
Jamaica, Vietnam and the Philippines. Activities 
included enhanced vulnerability and capacity 
assessments in nine communities (three in each 
country) alongside ecological assessments. At 
the global level, capacity was built through train-
ing of trainers for the Philippines and Vietnam, 
and through regional training in Kenya with 
some 20 National Societies.
Also during the course of the year, the IFRC 
started a small project funded by UNEP, to 
mainstream Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk 
Reduction in four Caribbean countries: Jamaica, 
Belize, Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago.
In May 2022, the IFRC and World Wildlife Fund 
(WWF) launched a partnership that included 
a strong focus on nature-based solutions. A 
joint IFRC-WWF report, “
Working with Nature 
to Protect People
”, was published the following 
month to high media attention.
The IFRC worked with the Zurich Flood Resilience 
Alliance to develop a climate resilience meas-
urement for communities tool in 2022, which 
complements the existing flood resilience meas-
urement tool. The Alliance and IFRC supported 
National Societies in the Philippines, Mexico, 
Albania, Montenegro and Mozambique to imple-
ment holistic flood resilience programmes that 
included community resilience building, advo-
cacy and knowledge management actions.
The Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance also col-
laborated with the IFRC and the Red Cross Red 
Crescent Climate Centre in 2022 to develop a 
new e-learning course titled Red Alert: what is 
climate change and what can we do about it.
As part of the IFRC’s ambitious Global Climate 
Resilience Platform (see Spotlight), the IFRC 
worked with the American Red Cross and the 
Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre to cre-
ate the Coastal City Resilience and Heat Project, 
which was approved by USAID BHA. The project, 
worth USD 10 million over five years, focuses on 
action in nine cities in Honduras, Bangladesh, 
Indonesia and Tanzania. It will scale-up locally 
led adaptation and transform humanitarian 
responses to climate change, build coastal city 
resilience, and address extreme heat.