2022 progress examples • With technical support from the IFRC, the Uruguayan Red Cross is implementing a programme
that links climate change with emergency response, to be carried out through the youth in
branches, financed by the Italian Red Cross.
• Argentine Red Cross and Uruguayan Red Cross are working in bilateral collaboration to
development community response team projects.
• Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay National Societies have included cash transfer programmes
in response to different emergencies.
• Argentina included a multipurpose programme within the DREF for fires in the province of
Corrientes for affected families with a support system for the purchase of basic necessities or
construction materials.
• Brazil included cash transfer programmes within the DREF operation for floods and landslides
and the COVID-19 appeal, both multipurpose through an agreement with the company Alelo,
delivering cards to affected people.
• Chile carried out a multipurpose transfer and cash-for-use programme for health services to
migrants and worked on livelihoods programmes with the same tool.
• The Uruguayan Red Cross worked through cash transfer programmes (multipurpose) with
vulnerable people in a migratory context.
• An International disaster response law report for Argentina has been published, which
recommends that Argentine national laws should be strengthened to provide a more robust
framework for international disaster assistance and legal facilities for eligible international aid.
• Argentine Red Cross has carried out water purification and distribution activities in communities
of indigenous peoples in the North (Salta, Chaco) and in neighbourhoods in the Province of
Buenos Aires through an agreement with Aysa (Water and Sanitation Company of Argentina).