The IFRC coordinated
and advised the Youth
Commission-led working group of National
Societies creating
a Mental Health Youth
Manifesto, which was launched at the IFRC’s
General Assembly.
This initiative brings together the experiences
and views of some 5,500 young people from
63 National Societies, and aims to ignite inter-
generational dialogue to scale up youth-led and
National Society-owned programmes to nurture
the mental health and wellbeing of vulnerable
groups, volunteers and staff.
While a majority of National Societies now have
a proper
volunteer insurance
mechanism to
ensure full coverage for any accidents or health
issues (and provide support to their families
in the event of a death in service), a number
still need extra
support to establish such
a mechanism.
Eighty-two National Societies subscribed to the
IFRC’s volunteer insurance by the end of 2022,
with more than 114,000 volunteers being cov-
ered. In addition, 27 National Societies have a
volunteer solidarity mechanism in place.
Work continued in 2022 to find the most effec-
tive way to tailor this support and encourage
peer to peer support, with the aim of ensuring
that all 192 National Societies have a proper,
tailored, and effective system in place to insure
and protect their volunteers.
To promote the
standards on the safety and
security of volunteers,
the IFRC supported
some National Societies to use the standards, to
document and share their knowledge from their
assessments, and develop a plan of action to
improve priority areas. The IFRC also carried out
a training of trainers on the implementation of
the standards; so far, 40 National Societies have
been trained on standards implementation. An
introductory video to promote the standards
was also developed.
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