Annual report

168
Disaggregated by sex: 
105
Disaggregated by age: 
82
16
.0
M
14
.5
M
14
.2
M
11
.7
M
13
.7
M
12
.9
M
11
.9
M
14
.9
M
16
.5
M
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
48%
55%
58%
55%
55%
55%
43%
54%
52%
Percentage of female volunteers
Number of volunteers by year
1%
2%
1%
2%
3%
4%
5%
5%
9%
8%
10%
8%
14%
13%
7%
4%
1%
Age
70–79
60–69
50–59
40–49
30–39
18–29
13–17
6–12
Female
Male
Volunteers by age and sex
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STAFF
501.6K
people who were contracted by 
National Societies for at least three 
months in 2021 and were remuner- 
ated. Forty reported engaging more 
than 1,000 paid staff, representing 
96% of the total.
National Societies reporting: 
164
Disaggregated by sex: 
125
Disaggregated by age: 
95
4
53K
4
32
K
4
4
5K
47
5K
4
65K
47
2K
47
9K
47
7K
502
K
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2021
2020
65%
65%
64%
65%
59%
60%
60%
61%
62%
Percentage of female staff
Number of staff by year
Female
Male
0.1%
0.4%
2% 3%
11%
16%
18%
18%
6%
8%
10%
6%
Age
70–79
60–69
50–59
40–49
30–39
18–29
Staff by age and sex
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NETWORK
National Societies reporting supports links among them, i.e. who provided support and who received 
support, helping us map collaborations within the IFRC network, whether financial, human, or 
technical.
The chart below shows the aggregation of this information by regions. The left side of the graph con-
tains the “origin” of the support and the right side its “destination”. For example, most of the support 
originated by Europe in 2021 (177 links) was directed to the region itself, however, the majority of 
the support received by Africa (201 links) came from Europe. The table at the bottom of the page 
provides additional details.
Support links between National Societies
Origin
Destination
Number of support links between National Societies
Destination
Europe and 
Central Asia
Africa
MENA
Americas
Asia Pacific
O
ri
gi
n
Europe and 
Central Asia
177
201
75
81
87
Africa
1
5
0
0
0
MENA
17
3
1
2
10
Americas
13
3
1
40
16
Asia Pacific
21
25
12
7
108
Africa
Americas
Asia Pacific
Europe and 
Central Asia
MENA
1%
26%
8%
14%
19%
24%
67%
25%
6%
1%
Africa
Americas
Asia Pacific
Europe and Central Asia
MENA
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GOVERNANCE
The FDRS collects data about National Societies’ leadership structure. This data is disaggregated 
by sex, allowing us to provide an overview of the proportions of males and females among the 
leadership of National Societies.
President
Secretary General
Governing board
79%
69%
70%
80%
65%
69%
78%
70%
65%
77%
70%
66%
74%
72%
65%
21%
31%
30%
20%
35%
31%
22%
30%
35%
23%
30%
34%
26%
28%
35%
2018
2017
2019
2020
2021
2018
2017
2019
2020
2021
2018
2017
2019
2020
2021
Female
Male
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LOCAL UNITS
122K
2K
1
This visual is a choropleth cartogram and each square’s 
size is proportional to the country’s population. The 
colours represent the number of local units per 
National Society. Only 16 National Societies have more 
than 1,000 local units – representing 89% of the total.
Nigeria
Ethiopia
Kenya
Colombia
Brazil
Chile
Uganda
Argentina
South 
Africa
Niger
Egypt
Türkiye
Italy
Algeria
Mali
Mexico
Senegal
Haiti
Ghana
Russia
France
Germany
Ukraine
Iraq
Syria
Saudi 
Arabia
Yemen
190.3K
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122K
2K
1
Africa
8.0K
Americas
4.0K
Asia Pacific
154.6K
Middle East and
North Africa
8.2K
Europe and 
Central Asia
15.5K
China
India
Indonesia
Philippines
Vietnam
Bangladesh
Pakistan
Myanmar
Nepal
Thailand
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EXPENDITURE
INCOME
36.4B
CHF
Documents
The FDRS also collects key doc-
uments from National Societies 
(annual reports, strategic plans 
and audited finanical statements) 
on an annual basis. The availability 
of these may depend on internal 
processes of National Societies, 
which might not coincide with the 
FDRS data collection cycle and 
thus can be reported in following 
years. In 2020, the FDRS received:
117
annual reports
124
strategic plans
103
financial statements
(of which 
74
were audited)
The 
Everyone Counts
report contains data collected from our network of 192 National Societies, an 
annual process undertaken since 2012. Over the past nine years, this has enabled us to establish a 
unique database on the IFRC’s humanitarian capacity, resources and activities worldwide.
View the 
Everyone Counts Report
here
.
40.3B
CHF
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NATIONAL SOCIETIES 
WORKING INTERNATIONALLY
National Societies support one another in a num-
ber of ways. This can include financial resources 
or goods, as well as personnel, expertise and 
technical guidance. Some National Societies 
provide this support remotely, while some have 
offices in other countries where their support 
is needed on a regular and enduring basis. The 
information below has been provided on a vol-
untary basis by some National Societies in the 
IFRC network. While it is not exhaustive, it does 
show the breadth of this support. It is a sample of 
what you can find on the IFRC’s Federation-Wide 
Databank and Reporting System (FDRS). For 
more information, please visit this interactive 
platform where the information provided below 
can be viewed in a variety of ways, including 
by country.
51.94M
People reached
CHF 411.6M
Total expenditure
19
National Societies reporting
131
Countries of implementation
Implementing countries information
There are more than 131 implementing countries. The below is only a small sample of the interactive 
data available on the IFRC’s FDRS website available here 
https://data.ifrc.org/fdrs/
.
Niger
Syrian Arab Republic
Ukraine
Climate and environmental crises
0.07M
-
-
Evolving crises and disasters activities
3.57M
5.40M
38.17M
Health
2.60M
8.25M
10.45M
Migration and identity
1.02M
37.75M
0.18M
Values, power and inclusion
0.97M
-
-
WASH
0.28M
8.93M
5.61M
Network perspective 
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National Societies providing support
National Society
Number of countries with 
PNS staff presence out of 
total supported countries
Expenditure 
(CHF millions)
People reached 
(millions)
French Red Cross
20/22
80.4
10.1
German Red Cross
29/45
73.5
3.2
Turkish Red Crescent Society
17/56
61.3
10.7
Norwegian Red Cross
15/18
46.8
10.2
Spanish Red Cross
24/31
26.5
6.7
British Red Cross
9/22
21.4
3.6
Belgian Red Cross
11/12
20.3
3.9
Austrian Red Cross
9/18
20.2
-
Swedish Red Cross
12/16
19.0
0.7
American Red Cross
7/23
11.8
-
Finnish Red Cross
12/18
9.3
0.7
The Canadian Red Cross Society
6/14
7.7
1.1
The Republic of Korea National 
Red Cross
3/9
4.6
0.1
Italian Red Cross
8/31
2.4
0.3
Irish Red Cross Society
0/6
2.2
0.001
Australian Red Cross
0/9
2.2
-
Japanese Red Cross Society
6/7
1.8
0.2
The Netherlands Red Cross
10/10
-
0.4
Red Cross of Monaco
1/4
0.1
0.001
People reached by thematic area
20.91M
1.90M
2.63M
0.27M
14.43M
8.17M
Values, 
protection 
and 
inclusion
Migration 
and 
identity
WASH
Health
Climate 
and 
environment
Evolving 
disasters 
and crises
People reached by region
Africa
MENA
Americas
Europe
Asia 
Pacific
12.3M
8.5M
3.3M
2.6M
25.1M
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RED CROSS RED CRESCENT 
REFERENCE CENTRES
Global Reference Centres
Red Cross Red Crescent 
Climate Centre
Hosted by the Netherlands Red Cross
climatecentre.org
Marking our 20th anniversary in 2022, we 
continued to support the Red Cross and Red 
Crescent in reducing climate risks in line with 
commitments in the Movement ambitions and 
the climate charter.
The centre provided operational advice to all 
seven early action protocols activated world-
wide during the year, addressing a variety of 
climate-related hazards.
Our work at the nexus of climate and health 
rapidly expanded: we prioritized health in antic-
ipatory action through two feasibility studies in 
Yemen and Cox’s Bazar, and we updated and 
expanded the health module in the Climate 
Training Kit.
We contributed to academic papers on early 
action, weather forecasts in conflict contexts, 
anticipatory action, and impact-based forecast-
ing, as well as ten attribution studies.
We developed several new tools as part of our 
ongoing support to the German Red Cross, 
including a checklist for the integration of 
forecast-based action and social protection.
Our social media audience continued to grow 
apace in 2022, and we are now adding 25 Twitter 
followers a week on average; we published just 
over 120 online news stories, covering all aspects 
of the humanitarian impacts of climate change.