Theme: National Societies

Almaty, Kazakhstan, 30 April 2018 – Red Cross and Red Crescent leaders from across Europe are meeting in Kazakhstan this week to chart their response to the region’s key humanitarian challenges. The 10th European Regional Conference of Red Cross and Re …

Host William Carter and Mina Mojtahedi, IFRC’s disability inclusion lead, about the difficulties of providing appropriate water and sanitation facilities for people with disabilities in often already challenging situations.

Local actors are always the first to respond. In Nepal, local volunteers and emergency workers were responding even as the dust from the earthquake still hung in the air. In West Africa, well before the world woke up to the true nature of the Ebola threat, local health workers and affected communities were treating and isolating the sick and burying the dead.

Myanmar Red Cross Society (MRCS) embarked on a nance development journey in 2004, using a set of baselines focused on “measuring the impact of organizational development and change processes on the lives of vulnerable people”.

National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies are continuously seeking to remain competitive and relevant in providing humanitarian services with high levels of integrity so that their position as trusted institutions is well recognized and retained, both within the country and internationally.

The IFRC welcomes the commitments expressed by UN member states in the New York Declaration for refugees and migrants to respect and protect the safety, dignity and rights of migrants and refugees. We hope now to see the development of a Global Compact …

To date there has been little formal, empirical research that has been conducted on capacity building for disaster risk management (DRM). This research project was designed as an initial step towards filling that knowledge and evidence gap.

One of the unique aspects of National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is their auxiliary role to the public authorities in the humanitarian field.  This guide, focused on examples from the Middle East and Northern Africa, provides an overview of   …

One of the unique aspects of National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is their auxiliary role to the public authorities in the humanitarian field.  This guide, focused on examples from Europe, provides an overview of  the origins, meaning and impl …

One of the unique aspects of National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is their auxiliary role to the public authorities in the humanitarian field.  This guide, focused on examples from Asia-Pacific, provides an overview of  the origins, meaning an …