Annual report

Annual Overview 
| About the IFRC 
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contexts. Eleven new inductees completed the 
process in 2022. In addition, the IFRC worked 
with counterparts in the ICRC to develop joint 
HR in Emergencies training referral systems to 
support the development of candidates with 
great potential.
Human Resources solutions,
services and systems
Transactional administrative services (payroll 
and benefits, onboarding needs such as con-
tracts, relocation and residence permits, etc.) 
are provided while ensuring enhanced commu-
nication and dissemination of HR policies, rules 
and regulations, guidelines, and processes. 
The IFRC also achieves its objectives through tar-
geted support and services to colleagues in the 
global organization as well as National Societies 
and partners, including donors.
In 2022, improved HR information systems 
were launched as part of the IFRC’s Enterprise 
Resource Planning initiative. This has allowed for 
improved management of digital transactions 
and new payroll solutions as part of efforts to 
develop and implement an integrated platform 
that accompanies each employee through their 
IFRC experience, combining systems, services, 
data quality enhancement, and HR analytics.
Occupational health, safety and wellbeing
Staff health and welfare are paramount. Our 
work in this area, including the health clear-
ance of new employees, and safeguarding of 
the health and wellbeing of current staff are 
included, as well as crafting and implementing 
a Global Staff Health and Wellbeing strategy 
and devising new and more effective ways of 
identifying, managing, and mitigating staff 
health and wellbeing risks. A particular area of 
focus has been the availability of counsellors 
in Headquarters and Regional Offices who can 
provide psychosocial support to staff in chal-
lenging environments or emergency situations.
During 2022, the IFRC conducted webinars on 
health matters, issued weekly staff advisories 
with health and wellbeing advice, and provided 
constant support to staff in relation to physical 
and mental health – particularly in the context of 
challenging crises such as those in Ukraine and 
affected countries.
Global Humanitarian Services
and Supply Chain Management 
The IFRC provides quality and value assured sup-
ply chain support to both its own and National 
Society response programmes around the world. 
The IFRC works to achieve this by a clear focus 
on responsiveness and cost-effective service to 
member National Societies and IFRC operations 
and programmes.
This includes providing cost-effective and envi-
ronmentally sensitive global procurement and 
ensuring that relief goods are in the right place 
at the right time to reach the people in greatest 
need of them. This involves global warehousing 
and fleet services, which are managed by this 
department alongside strategic planning; supply 
chain services; standards and compliance; infor-
mation management, and logistics development.
In 2022, the IFRC launched a Supply Chain review 
to identify ways in which existing services and 
support to National Societies could be improved, 
with a particular focus on proactive offers of sup-
port to the membership. More than a hundred 
National Societies took part in the review, which 
also drew on the knowledge and experience of 
the ICRC and humanitarian specialists across 
the sector.
The activities identified included consolidating 
demand per region to negotiate increased value 
for money from suppliers supporting National 
Societies with their domestic and day-to-day 
programmes; “greening” the supply chain and 
expanding the IFRC Fleet offer to include support 
for National Society programmes.
In 2022, 688 shipments weighing more than 
11,500 tonnes were supplied from pre-positioned 
stocks in the IFRC global and regional hubs.