Annual report

participation of 189 National Societies at the IFRC 
General Assembly and the Council of Delegates.
Following an extensive consultative process, 
the
 Supply Chain Review
project defined its 
strategic objectives for supply chain support to 
IFRC programmes and National Societies. The 
strategic objectives are:
1. 
Engaging purchasing power and compe-
tencies Federation-wide all 192 National 
Societies, over and above only international 
operations.
2. 
New Fleet Business Model – supply and 
demand, fleet management, new sustaina-
ble solutions for the Federation-wide fleet 
of close to 200,000 units.
3. 
Innovative digital platform for all National 
Societies and the IFRC, including market-
place, e.stocks management platform, 
e.transport, and others. The new strategy 
has a strong focus on building National 
Society capacity and localization through 
innovative unique in the humanitarian sec-
tor digital platforms, greater coordination 
in procurement activities, and enhanced 
support to domestic programmes pro-
viding greater value for money. Important 
strategic directions include an increased 
focus on sustainability and greening the 
supply chain, increasing support to cash 
and voucher programming, and enhancing 
fleet management. The ambition of the 
strategy is to have best in class, innovative 
and cost-efficient Federation-wide Supply 
Chain Management.
In February 2022, the IFRC launched a 
network-wide unified planning
approach in 
line with the Agenda for Renewal, which made 
significant insights on priority requirements for 
country level 
data collection
. Work was under-
way across 2022 to align IFRC and network-wide 
data collection processes, to encourage better 
use of data and more streamlined communica-
tion with National Societies. This included the 
development of a new validation matrix for the 
long-running Federation-wide Databank and 
Reporting System (FDRS) in support of the uni-
fied planning process.
In addition, Federation-wide monitoring systems 
were developed by FDRS for the Ukraine crisis 
response, and for the ECHO PPP initiative, and 
additional training was provided for National 
Society staff and volunteers in data collection 
and monitoring.
The 
evaluation
of IFRC programmes and opera-
tions remained a critical aspect of transparency 
and evaluation across the organization. In the 
IFRC context, “evaluation” can also include base-
lines, case studies and research pieces, reviews, 
surveys etc.
In 2022, 24 reports were issued on 
IFRC’s 
Evaluation Databank
. Four of these were carried 
out in Africa, five in the Americas, eight in the 
Asia Pacific region, one in Europe, two in Middle 
East North Africa region, and four at the Global 
level. More information on each of these reports 
is available 
here
.
2022 marked a historic milestone for IFRC: the 
closure of the COVID-19 Emergency Appeal. 
The biggest Emergency Appeal Federation 
Wide that the organization has had in the last 
years. The response to the COVID-19 Pandemic 
also allowed our organization to promote an