Annual report

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Annual Report 
2022

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to plan and implement appropriate responses. 
Eleven HEOps/DHEOps were deployed to pro-
vide operational and strategic leadership to 
emergency responses around the world in 2022.
The HEOps programme has seen a strong and 
steady increase in deployment numbers and 
use since 2020, with 2022 representing a 175 
per cent increase in deployment frequency 
compared to 2020. There are now 30 individuals 
in the pool, with seven DHEOps being certified in 
2022. To increase the diversity and inclusiveness 
of the programme, DHEOps launched a specific 
track dedicated to National Society members 
from the Global South. Ten professionals have 
been selected for the programme.
The following surge training opportunities 
were delivered in 2022: four Emergency Team 
Leader; two Coordination, Assessment and 
Planning; two Managing IFRC Operations, and 
one Induction to IFRC Operations among other 
sectoral training courses.
Resilience and capacity building
In June 2022, the Council of Delegates adopted 
a resolution on “Strengthening the resilience of 
urban communities: Our way forward”, which was 
developed in a collaborative process by some 
15 National Societies to promote the scale-up 
of humanitarian assistance and resilience 
building efforts in urban areas and strengthen 
National Societies’ auxiliary role with municipal 
governments.
The IFRC’s work in community resilience and 
pandemic preparedness included the launch 
of a Community Resilience Measurement 
Dashboard. This tool allows users to measure 
community resilience as part of their project 
baseline, mid-line and end-line measurements, 
and improve them through data analysis 
and comparison.
This was accompanied by a series of webinars 
and virtual training for National Societies. By the 
end of the year, the dashboard had more than 
190 registered users and was operational in 
Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, DRC, Ghana, 
Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Togo and other countries. 
The IFRC also developed an online course titled 
“Your Road Map to Community Resilience” in 
2022, which is available in 
Arabic
, 
English
, 
French
 
and 
Spanish
in the Learning Platform.
The enhanced vulnerability and capacity assess-
ment (EVCA) tool was launched in 2022 through 
new materials and training workshops. To 
promote the use of EVCA digital tools, the IFRC 
developed 
three case studies
(Lebanon, Nigeria 
and the Philippines) and promoted the use of 
EVCA data for risk watch and project planning 
with a 
project for extraction and visualization of 
EVCA reports
.
The EVCA data extraction and visualization 
project was completed in December 2022 
and its results – global trends and community 
profiles – were made accessible through the 
EVCA Repository
.
The IFRC also supported National Societies in 
enhancing their national disaster risk reduction 
capacities through the Capacity for Disaster 
Reduction Initiative. National Societies engaged 
in diagnosis missions and capacity building 
activities in Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Timor Leste, 
Maldives and Senegal.
By the end of 2022, eight National Societies 
had completed the Preparedness for Effective 
Response (PER) process, bringing the cumulative 
total to 89 National Societies who are engaged in 
a more structured and systematized prepared-
ness approach.
The IFRC actively supported the adaptation and 
use of the PER mechanism in emergency oper-
ations, and worked with National Societies to 
ensure that improved preparedness was aligned 
with their strategic goals. The PER guidance was 
expanded in 2022 to conclude urban consider-
ations, epidemics, climate and environmental 
sustainability.
Shelter, housing and settlements
The IFRC worked with DG Home, the Red Cross 
EU Office and other partners on initiatives sup-
porting countries hosting refugees and people 
displaced by the crisis in Ukraine.