Annual report

1. 
Services to National Societies and 
specifically to: 
a. 
Act as the permanent body of liaison, 
coordination and study among the 
National Societies and to give them 
assistance. 
b. 
Encourage and coordinate the 
participation of the National Societies in 
activities for safeguarding public health 
and the promotion of social welfare and 
a culture of non-violence and peace 
in cooperation with their appropriate 
national authorities. 
c. 
Be the official representative of the 
National Societies in the international 
field, and to be the guardian of their 
integrity and the protector of their 
interests. 
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2. 
Humanitarian activities and within 
this point it is relevant to highlight two 
activities: 
a. 
Bring relief by all available means to all 
disaster-affected persons. 
b. 
Organize, coordinate and direct inter-
national relief actions in accordance 
with the “Principles and Rules for 
Red Cross and Red Crescent Disaster 
Relief” adopted by the International 
Conference.
This function is reflected as a priority action in 
IFRC’s 
Strategy 2030
, 
Agenda for Renewal
, and Plan 
and Budget 2021–2025.
Disaster laws and policy
The IFRC supports National Societies in achieving 
a strategic and effective approach to humani-
tarian diplomacy, including policy and practice 
change and representation. National Societies 
are also given support and advice in disaster law, 
to enable them to support their governments in 
developing and implementing effective laws and 
policies for disaster risk management as well as 
the auxiliary role.
Priorities, strategies and joint approaches to 
influencing are all focus areas, as is the coordina-
tion of thematic and event-based networks with 
interested National Societies in areas of priority. 
Advocacy reports, key messages and research 
products such as the 
World Disasters Report 
are 
produced, and IFRC network coordination is 
ensured around major policy events. In addition, 
IFRC experts in this area lead inter-agency and 
inter-governmental cooperation (such as the 
Grand Bargain’s Localization Workstream and 
the Climate-Science Humanitarian Dialogue), and 
support capacity strengthening on humanitarian 
diplomacy, disaster law and the auxiliary role.
In 2022, support was provided for IFRC network 
advocacy on the climate crisis (including through 
publishing new evidence on gaps in climate 
financing and fielding a powerful delegation 
to the UNFCCC COP, where the IFRC’s Climate 
Resilience Platform was launched among doz-
ens of events with Red Cross and Red Crescent 
speakers), pandemic prevention and prepared-
ness (as a consistent voice in the negotiations 
of the new pandemic treaty and revision of the 
International Health Regulations), in solutions 
for forced displacement (as a leading voice for 
localization at the Global Refugee Forum), and in 
localization of aid (with support for the outcome 
of the Grand Bargain Intermediaries Caucus and 
the first localization dialogue in the Democratic 
Republic of the Congo). 
In the area of disaster law, several global research 
and advisory products were launched, including 
the world’s first comprehensive database of 
national disaster laws, and supported more than 
30 evidenced-based reports at country level and 
over a dozen National Societies in formal techni-
cal support to their authorities on new laws.
In June 2022, during the Statutory Meetings 
of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, revised 
policies on Volunteering and National Society 
Development were adopted and are now guiding 
the work of the IFRC and the wider network. 
Protection, gender and inclusion
Protection, gender and inclusion is the IFRC’s 
approach to preventing issues of violence, dis-
crimination and exclusion in communities, in 
crisis situations and emergencies, and in Red 
Cross and Red Crescent institutional capacities.
The three main objectives are institutional capac-
ity, composition, and commitment to address 
violence, discrimination, and exclusion; National 
Societies and the IFRC adopt a comprehensive 
Protection, Gender, and Inclusion approach 
across all operations, programmes, and services; 
and develop and improve advocacy, partner-
ships, and learning within the Movement and 
externally to support better protection, gender, 
and inclusion actions. 
The work encompasses the centrality of protec-
tion (including child protection), social inclusion, 
the prevention of trafficking in persons and SGBV, 
disability inclusion, anti-racism, diversity inclu-
sion, gender equality, protecting and restoring 
family links, LGBTQAI2+ inclusion, violence pre-
vention, diversity management, survivor-centred 
approaches, and safeguarding.