Annual report

Strategic Priorities
| Disasters and crises 
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This dialogue resulted in the creation of a 
one-year programme funded by DG HOME 
where the National Societies of Belgium, France, 
Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Netherlands, 
Luxemburg, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia will 
support hosting in private accommodation. 
While the project was agreed and developed 
in 2022, it was not expected to launch until the 
following year.
National Societies continued to be supported in 
developing their shelter/urban strategies as part 
of the targets for 2025, and their participation 
in the Making Cities Resilient 2030 initiative. In 
addition, efforts are being made to connect the 
domestic shelter and settlement programmes of 
interested National Societies with EU civil pro-
tection experts on crises such as homelessness.
Information management
In 2022, IFRC information management exper-
tise was in high demand, particularly for surge 
deployments. There were an unprecedented 63 
information management deployments during 
the year. In addition, remote surge information 
management support pulled together capacity 
from across the IFRC network and was activated 
ten times for crises such as in Ukraine and the 
floods in Pakistan.
The 
IFRC’s GO Platform
(go.ifrc.org) – a ded-
icated publicly-accessible website hosting 
continually-updated global disaster and crisis 
information, analysis and resources – had more 
than 70,000 views from 143 countries in 2022.
The site launched several new features at the 
request of National Society and IFRC practi-
tioners, including full digitization of the DREF 
application process; a dedicated emergency 
response Who-Where-What module (who is 
most affected by this crisis, where are they, and 
what do they need?), and a risk module provid-
ing impact forecasts and historical analysis to 
support accelerated anticipatory action.
The IFRC launched the Global Crisis Data Bank 
with support from USAID in 2022. The initiative, 
which was initially proposed exactly 100 years ago 
within the Movement, is being implemented in 
collaboration with more than 15 partners, includ-
ing the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, 
the World Meteorological Organization, the UN 
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian 
Affairs, Google and the World Bank.
The Global Crisis Data Bank brings together data 
on natural hazards, their impacts and the effec-
tiveness of measures implemented to mitigate 
those impacts.
Also in 2022, during the first Information 
Management Summit in Kathmandu, an 
IFRC -wide Information Management Working 
Group and Learning and Development 
Framework was launched.
Disaster law
In 2022, the IFRC supported 16 National 
Societies in drafting and/or developing new 
disaster law instruments in Botswana, Costa 
Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, 
Fiji, Guatemala, Honduras, Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, 
Nicaragua, Panama, South Sudan, Trinidad & 
Tobago, Uganda and Zambia. Eleven National 
Societies (those of Costa Rica, El Salvador, 
Eswatini, Fiji, Guatemala, Honduras, Namibia, 
Nicaragua, Panama, Seychelles and Zambia) 
were supported in formal dialogue with their 
governments to strengthen their auxiliary role 
through new laws or existing mechanisms.
In total, 32 National Societies and their govern-
ment counterparts were trained in disaster law, 
the auxiliary role and legislative advocacy in 
2022. National Societies were also supported 
with 18 disaster law evidence-based reports 
designed to boost their national and regional 
legislative advocacy. These reports are available 
on the 
IFRC Disaster Law Database
.
The IFRC launched its 
Guidance on Law and 
Public Health Emergency Preparedness and 
Response 
this year, organized the seventh edi-
tion of the 
International Disaster Law Course
, 
and published 
International Climate Change and 
Disaster Governance - A Guide for National Red 
Cross and Red Crescent Societies
.