Annual report

100
Annual Report 
2022

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The Federation-wide approach includes: 
•
A
Federation-wide country needs 
assessment 
and implementation plan
with common indicators. 
•
A
Federation-wide funding ask 
to ensure 
linkages between all response activities 
(including multilateral, bilateral and activities 
funded domestically by National Societies 
assisting in leveraging the comparative 
advantages of each partner and the 
capacities of all members of the Federation 
in the country to maximize the collective 
humanitarian impact. 
•
A Federation-wide monitoring and 
reporting framework
to standardize 
monitoring and reporting and ensure account- 
ability and transparency of the operation. 
The Federation-wide monitoring covers 
reporting on different activities of National 
Societies, standard indicators across the 
IFRC, and financial information. The data 
collected through this process is shared on 
the GO platform with public visibility and 
draws a global picture of the response. 
Through the coordination with the Red Cross EU 
Office, the IFRC maintains coordination relations 
with National Societies in the EU, EU member 
states, decision-makers, and partners, sharing 
operational highlights and the extensive experi-
ence and expertise of the membership. 
Movement coordination
In view of the complex, intricate, and 
multi-layered public nature of this crisis, the 
response to the crisis in Ukraine and impacted 
countries has been conducted in full coordina-
tion with the International Committee of the Red 
Cross (ICRC) and the entire Movement, bringing 
together the expertise and capacities of all 
actors. This is done while reaffirming the cen-
trality of host National Societies as the principal 
convener in their own countries. It is critical that 
the Movement continues to coordinate and col-
laborate in full complementarity to maximize its 
humanitarian response and impact for people 
in need. The ICRC has been a key humanitarian 
actor in Ukraine and Movement Coordination 
has been successful in a difficult context.
Cash assistance 
Cash and voucher assistance has been a cen-
tral part of the response from the beginning. 
The IFRC worked with National Societies in the 
region to integrate cash programming into their 
own systems.
Two main payment solutions were offered for 
cash distributions in responding countries: 
the IFRC VISA cards and MoneyGram. In the 
countries with an ongoing cash intervention, 
automated chatbots are available to people 
assisted through Telegram, WhatsApp, or Viber. 
A self-registration app for cash and voucher 
assistance built by RedRose is now being used 
in Romania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, 
Moldova, and Lithuania.
With the support of the Netherlands Red Cross 
510 team, the regional cash and voucher assis-
tance team now published a multi-purpose cash 
dashboard on IFRC GO
.
The IFRC has supported Ukrainian Red Cross 
in leading the Movement Coordination on cash 
assistance in Ukraine. Cash and voucher assis-
tance is the central response modality of the IFRC 
response to the crisis in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Red Cross, the Ministry of Social 
Policy of Ukraine, together with RedRose, signed 
a Memorandum of Understanding to implement 
a pilot project on cash support for internally 
displaced people with specific vulnerabilities 
(e.g. elders, people with disabilities, etc.). Out of 
more than 48,000 people who registered in the 
Ministry system (
eDopomoga
), the IFRC agreed 
to cover more than 21,000 applications by those 
who satisfy the set of identified vulnerability 
criteria. Overall, 4.6 million Swiss francs was 
distributed under this project. 
As part of building a long-term sustainable 
cash management platform and system owned 
and operated by Ukrainian Red Cross, the IFRC 
has supported it to process beneficiaries’ data 
management and payments through its existing