Annual report

response
Target by 2025
As per EA MDR0005
Actual 2022
977.9 million
2
people reached 
(175 NS reporting)
110
Annual Report 
2022

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Progress in 2022
In 2022, the IFRC took the lead in many inno-
vative approaches to improving and protecting 
community health and wellbeing. These included 
the promotion of early and anticipatory action for 
hazards related to health and water, sanitation 
and hygiene (WASH), digital health initiatives, and 
guiding evidence-based emergency health and 
WASH components of IFRC response operations.
The IFRC continued to support major ongoing 
initiatives, such as REACH, the African Union’s 
Community Healthcare Workforce programme 
with the African Centre for Disease Control (see 
Spotlight for more information on the REACH 
initiative).
The organization also pressed for concerted 
action to end cholera worldwide, and promoted 
the vital role played by community-based work-
ers and volunteers in delivering a range of critical 
public health services.
The IFRC worked throughout the year to support 
National Societies in strengthening their auxil-
iary role to support their relevant country-level 
public health strategies, advocacy and policy 
platforms and mechanisms.
The humanitarian needs resulting from the 
decrease in global routine immunization cover-
age due to the COVID-19 pandemic did not abate 
in 2022. The IFRC was involved with improving 
routine immunizations for children, and out-
break response for vaccine-preventable diseases 
and rolling out COVID-19 specific vaccinations, all 
of which required risk communication and com-
munity engagement, epidemic control and public 
health interventions, and livelihoods support 
to encourage an inclusive, resilient, and green 
recovery from the pandemic.
The IFRC provided more than 7.6 million people 
in cohort or home isolation with material support 
and reached more than 970 million people with 
health and hygiene activities related to COVID-19. 
At the same time, the IFRC worked to influence 
global debates about public health, in particular 
in applying lessons from COVID-19 into laws, 
policies and plans for prevention and prepared-
ness for future epidemics and pandemics.
The IFRC also strengthened and advocated for 
its critical role in preventing, detecting, and 
responding to diseases and health threats, and 
the need to empower and work alongside at-risk 
communities and local actors.
This work to boost epidemic and pandemic pre-
vention, preparedness, readiness, and response 
was conducted throughout the year with com-
munities, National Societies, and a broad range 
of partners.
Through the Community Epidemic and Pandemic 
Preparedness Programme, National Societies 
in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the 
Congo, Guinea, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Uganda 
and Indonesia strengthened their capacities 
and positioning with regards to public health 
emergencies risk management. And all 25 coun-
tries involved in the innovative Programmatic