partner of choice.
The IFRC launched its
Safeguarding Hub
in April
2022 with support from the British Red Cross.
This resource is open to a public audience,
allowing all IFRC safeguarding policies, tools
and guidance to be accessed by practition-
ers worldwide.
More than a hundred resources were available
by the end of 2022, 50 of them related to safe-
guarding. The website is now set up in French,
Spanish and Arabic, and further translation is in
progress to allow greater access.
Community engagement and accountabil- ity (CEA) remained a cornerstone of IFRC work
throughout 2022. The Ukraine crisis highlighted
the need for humanitarian actors to foster trust
with affected people amid misinformation and
disinformation, to ensure humanitarian access
and provide life-saving services.
In Ukraine and affected countries, CEA was a
central component of the IFRC response. The
IFRC supported National Societies in providing
life-saving information, and addressing commu-
nity concerns and perceptions, through 21 surge
deployments throughout the region.
Bolstering accountability to communities contin-
ued to be a priority for the wider humanitarian
sector, with the establishment in early 2022 of
the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)’s
Task Force on Accountability to Affected People,
which the IFRC co-leads together with WFP and
the Core Humanitarian Standard Alliance.
Community engagement was also central to the
newly launched programme in Africa to enhance
vaccine confidence and uptake through risk
communication and community engagement
among high-risk and vulnerable groups.
Piloting of the ‘Community Trust Index’ was
initiated, with five National Societies engaged
in testing the qualitative and quantitative tools
for the collection of community data. The
index’s main goal is to give National Societies
and branches the tools to measure and explore
