Annual report

Strategic Priorities
| Disasters and crises 
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2022 Emergency Operations
DREF
Emergency Appeal
Early Action Protocols activations
16
Emergency 
appeals launched
154*
Operations launched 
in 2022 supported by 
the DREF
894M**
Total funding 
requirements (CHF)
34.3M
Total number of 
people targeted
* Includes DREF grants, loans to EA and EAP activations.
** Includes EA, EAP allocations and further allocations to existing DREF operations 
from the previous year. Does not include DREF loans repaid for EAs.
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Countries with more than one DREF operation
Afghanistan
Armenia
Cameroon
Central African 
Republic
Costa Rica
Cuba
El Salvador
Gambia
Guatemala
Honduras
Indonesia
Lebanon
Madagascar
Malawi
Mauritania
Mongolia
Nepal
Nicaragua
Panama
Sao Tome 
and Principe
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
Sudan
Syria
Venezuela
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Colombia
Ecuador
Ethiopia
Kenya
Sri Lanka
Tanzania
Uganda
Philippines
Iran
Democratic 
Republic of Congo
2
3
4
5
Multi-country DREF operations
Africa region
Americas region
Central America Delegation
Strategic Priorities
| Disasters and crises 
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PROGRESS TOWARDS TARGETS
The summary below represents annual 2022 progress status. Information on the indicators covers 
work by the National Societies with support from the IFRC in 2022, unless stated otherwise. Data was 
collected from 111 National Societies. Entire network results are covered by annual FDRS reporting.
People reached per year with emergency response and recovery
Target by 2025
50 million
Actual 2022
Emergency Response
Multi-purpose cash: 2.0 million
Livelihoods: 8.2 million
Shelter, housing, and settlements: 1.6 million
Longer term: Multi-purpose cash: 1.7 million
National Societies engaged in structured preparedness and capacity building processes
Target by 2025
100
Actual 2022
89
Amount of funds mobilized through the IFRC for National Society responses to crises and 
disasters each year (DREF; EAs; annual plans)
Target by 2025
CHF 500 million 
Actual 2022
CHF 1.2 billion
National Societies with shelter and urban strategies
Target by 2025
50
Actual 2022
18
Governments supported to adopt new legal instruments on disaster risk management
Target by 2025
30
Actual 2022
9
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Progress in 2022
Anticipatory Action and
the Disaster Response
Emergency Fund
The IFRC continued its focus on preventing 
disasters and mitigating their impacts. In June 
2022, the Council of Delegates endorsed a 
resolution ‘Strengthening anticipatory action 
in the Movement: Our way forward’, calling for 
increased engagement in anticipatory action 
so that more people, more countries and more 
hazards are covered by the life-saving approach.
Work to raise the profile of anticipatory action 
and early warning/early action was carried out 
throughout 2022. This included the launch, 
on World Meteorological Day, of the joint 
IFRC-CREWS report “People-Centred Early 
Warning Systems: Learning from National Red 
Cross and Red Crescent Societies”. This was 
accompanied by a series of anticipatory action 
communication/awareness-raising resources 
through IFRC’s social media accounts and online.
The IFRC then launched the Operational 
Framework for scaling up Anticipatory Action 
2021–2025. This framework translates IFRC 
ambitions in scaling-up anticipatory action by 
setting clear targets that National Societies can 
use to guide their own work in this vital area.
Also in 2022, the Forecast based Action fund 
established by the IFRC was fully merged into the 
DREF, creating one fund with two pillars, namely 
the anticipatory and the response pillars.
In 2022, the DREF supported 91 National 
Societies with predictable funding to anticipate 
specific hazards, implement early actions and 
respond to disasters, allocating 59 million Swiss 
francs in total.
Across both the anticipatory and response pillars, 
donor contributions to the DREF reached 46.2 
million Swiss francs in 2022, compared to 31.2 
million the previous year, and 21.4 million in 2020.
In 2022, the DREF allocated nearly 60 million 
Swiss francs to support 91 National Societies to 
anticipate and to respond to disasters and crises. 
Including DREF grants, triggered Early Action 
Protocols, and kick-start funding to Emergency 
Appeals, the fund supported 154 operations, 
which supported 15 million people.
Under the response pillar of the DREF, the 2022 
allocations were distributed across 91 countries 
in all five IFRC regions in the following order: 
Asia Pacific (12.7 million Swiss francs through 
27 operations); Africa (25.3 million Swiss francs 
through 67 operations), followed by Middle 
East and North Africa (6.9 million Swiss francs 
through 14 operations), Americas (8.7 million 
Swiss francs through 32 operations) and Europe 
(4.8 million Swiss francs through 11 operations). 
The DREF contributed 9.3 million Swiss francs 
as a loan to the Africa Hunger Crisis Emergency 
Appeal aiming to support 7.6 million people 
across 14 countries.
In 2022, the global average allocated amount 
grew steadily compared to the previous three 
years (grants: 310,000 Swiss francs/loans: 
440,000 Swiss francs).
Specifics on the scale of the emergencies are 
well worth noting. In 2022, the majority of the 
DREF grants (56 per cent) targeted medium-scale 
emergencies, with a ceiling of up to 1 million 
Swiss francs. However, support for small-scale 
and unforeseen emergencies (with a ceiling of 
up to 500,000 Swiss francs) remains undeniably 
relevant to DREF’s mission.
More than half – 52 per cent – of allocations 
across both pillars were for climate-related 
disasters. A new trend emerges in 2022, with 
National Society requests for support to antic-
ipate the outbreak of epidemics following a new 
outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Uganda in 
September. Consequently, five African countries 
received allocations to prepare for and mitigate 
the potential risk of cross-border spread of 
this disease.