Annual report

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Annual Report 
2022

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Psychosocial Centre
Hosted by the Danish Red Cross
pscentre.org
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2022 expenditure: CHF 2.1 million
The IFRC Psychosocial Centre contributes knowl-
edge and provides services to Red Cross and 
Red Crescent practitioners worldwide. It assists 
in facilitating mental health and psychosocial 
support, promotes psychosocial wellbeing for 
affected groups, staff and volunteers, and 
increases awareness of psychological reactions 
in times of crisis or social disruption.
The Centre received 1,961 requests for assis-
tance from 129 countries (1,059 requests from 
within the Red Cross and Red Crescent, and 902 
requests from external organizations).
Fifty-four training courses were conducted, and 
83 webinars, seminars, presentations, talks and 
workshops were held.
The centre created or contributed to 33 publica-
tions, guidelines, reports, tools, policy briefs and 
scientific papers, produced 49 videos and eight 
podcasts, and wrote 59 articles for pscentre.org.
The centre was also represented in 33 forums 
as either presenter, speaker, host, coordinator or 
participant. It had 157,680 online visits and 5,889 
resource downloads from its website. Nearly 
16,000 people followed the centre on social 
media and 2,365 subscribed to its newsletter 
PS News
. Videos produced by the centre were 
viewed nearly 40,000 times on its website and 
social media.
Shelter Research Unit
Hosted by the Luxembourg Red Cross
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2022 expenditure: EUR 536,000
In 2022, the Shelter Research Unit provided 
support to shelter operations in the Africa 
region through a coordinator based in Niamey, 
Niger. The support aimed to improve shelter 
capacities in the region with dedicated training 
and capacity building in Burundi, Burkina Faso, 
Niger, Mali and Chad.
Reducing the environmental footprint of shel-
ter operations was progressed through the 
development of a dedicated tool to evaluate the 
environmental impact the emergency shelters. 
Evaluation of emergency shelter in four countries 
of the Sahel region (Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and 
Chad) was carried out.
In addition, dedicated technical advice was 
provided in Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger, 
Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and 
Madagascar.
Red Cross Red Crescent Reference Centres