Annual report

Lesotho Red Cross
, together with 
IFRC, planted 900 fruit trees supported by the 
Australian Red Cross
. In addition, the school 
feeding project in Lesotho distributed another 
1,500 trees to schools and communities in the 
Botha-Bothe district. About 1200 learners and 
3,000 community people were reached through 
this initiative. 
Jamaica
, 
Grenada 
and
 Trinidad 
and Tobago National Societies
also intro-
duced the programme of tree planting and care 
to maximize the green cover that can support 
reducing the impacts caused by land and air pol-
lution. During Red Cross Day, 4,000 trees were 
planted in the Dodoma region.
National Societies and the IFRC are putting 
into practice solutions to save energy at work. 
As heat waves are affecting populations in all 
continents, in Greece, the IFRC, the Hellenic Red 
Cross and other partners have been exploring 
how to leverage impact-based forecasting sys-
tems. They are also exploring best practices on 
extreme heat response.
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Annual Report 
2022

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SPOTLIGHT
THE GLOBAL CLIMATE 
RESILIENCE PLATFORM
The unprecedented threat of the climate crisis 
prompted the IFRC to seek a new approach to 
financing the climate-smart risk reduction and 
adaptation projects that are needed most, where 
they are needed most, and at the scale that will 
be required to protect communities at risk.
The new approach is called the Global Climate 
Resilience Platform, and it was devised by 
the IFRC and officially launched at COP27 in 
November 2022.
This innovative five-year 1 billion Swiss franc 
mechanism will fund the scaling-up of local and 
community-based climate action in many of 
the 100 countries most vulnerable to climate 
risks. Its goal is to reduce the current and future 
humanitarian impacts of climate change and 
support people to adapt in the face of it.
The platform links different sources of funding 
across development, humanitarian, climate and 
private sectors to take locally led climate action 
to scale. It will channel funding to local communi-
ties via National Societies using existing financial 
mechanisms, ensuring that resources go to 
where they will have the greatest impact.
The work will span four pillars: