Annual report

co-convene the 
Localization Workstream
and was a caucus 
champion on the role of intermediaries and 
funding for localization.
The IFRC’s progress towards Grand Bargain goals 
in 2022 included:
•
Beginning development of a certification 
process for National Societies that puts 
emphasis on local actor ownership and 
bottom-up approaches.
•
Greater focus placed on the development of 
National Society branches.
•
Continued improvements to the functionality 
and governance of the Disaster Response 
Emergency Fund (DREF).
•
Scaling up of the network’s use of cash assis-
tance, including in the Ukraine response, 
where new digital solutions were used to 
facilitate self-registration, validation, and 
payment.
•
Direct support on community engagement 
and accountability to 
77 National Societies/
countries through dedicated initiatives
. 
Nearly all emergency appeals included a 
community engagement/accountability 
component.
•
Continued co-chairing of the 
Collective 
Service for Risk Communication and 
Community Engagement
 which is engaging 
more than 60 partners and supporting 
almost 30 countries globally.
Steering Committee for
Humanitarian Response
The Steering Committee for Humanitarian 
Response (SCHR) brings together nine of the 
world’s leading humanitarian organizations 
to share analysis and learning, and promote 
greater accountability and impact of humani-
tarian actions.
The members of the SCHR are the IFRC, ICRC, 
Act Alliance, CARE, Caritas Internationalis, the 
Lutheran World Federation, Oxfam, Save the 
Children and World Vision. Between them, these 
organizations deliver roughly a quarter of all 
humanitarian assistance worldwide.
The SCHR secretariat is hosted by the IFRC and 
complements the IFRC’s own humanitarian diplo-
macy by connecting it to the policy and advocacy 
work of the other member organizations.
As a small, high trust and high access group, 
SCHR enables the IFRC to consult confidentially 
with peer organizations and use the resulting 
enhanced understanding to actively support the 
change agendas of the Inter-Agency Standing 
Committee, the Grand Bargain, and other impor-
tant inter-agency platforms.