Annual report

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Enabling functions
Alongside its Strategic Priorities, the IFRC focuses 
on four enabling functions: 
strategic and 
operational coordination; National Society 
development; humanitarian diplomacy; 
and 
the cross-cutting function of 
accountability 
and agility
. 
Strategic and operational coordination facilitates 
alignment and discussion on issues including 
scaling up collective humanitarian responses, 
increasing collective humanitarian impact, 
humanitarian diplomacy activities, building finan-
cial resources, developing and protecting staff 
and volunteers, effectively managing risks, and 
agreeing on integrity protocols. It ensures that 
members of the IFRC network complement each 
other’s strengths and contributions; that the IFRC 
works and shares knowledge and expertise with 
other international humanitarian organizations 
and platforms, and that the network cooperates 
united as part of the larger International Red 
Cross and Red Crescent Movement. 
IFRC progress in 
strategic and operational 
coordination
in 2022 included the introduction 
of a unified approach for planning in line with 
the Agenda for Renewal. Through this initia-
tive, 130 National Societies produced a unified 
country plan for 2023, with support from IFRC 
delegations. Federation-wide unified planning 
will ensure that the international support to a 
National Society provided by the IFRC network is 
fully coordinated and aligned with the priorities, 
needs and capacities of the host National Society, 
both for emergencies and longer-term support.
In operations, the IFRC prioritized effective 
membership coordination for major operations 
in Ukraine and impacted countries, Pakistan, the 
Africa food crisis, Malawi, Ethiopia, South Africa, 
Chad, Nigeria, Cuba, Uganda, and Bangladesh.
The ongoing work to operationalize the IFRC’s 
Agenda for Renewal continued with a joint mem-
bership initiative on the New Way of Working in 
country-level coordination, which was piloted in 
14 countries.
Throughout 2022, work continued to strengthen 
and expand IFRC coordination and partnerships 
within the International Red Cross and Red 
Crescent Movement, and with a raft of external 
international organizations, high-level interdisci-
plinary bodies, steering committees, and bodies 
overseeing global commitments.
As the global and local reach of the IFRC network 
depends on each individual National Society 
working as an independent, self-sustained, and 
well-functioning and trusted local organization,