The report captures the achievements made by the Myanmar Red Cross Society and its network of over 40,000 Red Cross volunteers towards the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) strategic goals and five priorities.
Philippines: Typhoon Haiyan Three-year progress report (November 2016)
This Movement-wide report highlights the progress made over the past three years, through the collective effort of Movement and private and public stakeholders, in support of the Philippine Red Cross’ realizing the overall emergency and recovery plans for those affected by Typhoon Haiyan.
Letter to all National Societies on Sustainability of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies
This is a letter written by the President of IFRC, Tadateru Konoe, after the outcomes of the 19th Session of the General Assembly of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Sydney, Australia. The President emphasized…
Federation-Wide Resource Mobilization Strategy
This Federation-Wide Resource Mobilization Strategy (the Strategy) aims to help the Red Cross and Red Crescent (RCRC) National Societies (NS) around the world to build on our strengths and competitive advantages in resource mobilization, while eliminating practices that undermine national and global resource mobilization capacities and objectives.
Principles and Rules for Red Cross and Red Crescent Humanitarian Assistance
These Principles and Rules for Red Cross and Red Crescent Humanitarian Assistance govern National Societies and their International Federation in international humanitarian assistance (excluding armed conflict, internal strife and their direct results).
These Principles and Rules recognize the importance of strengthening organizational, coordination and delivery capacities of National Societies, to respond to the increasing number and complexity of disasters and the growing number of vulnerable people. They call for greater collective learning, adaptation, innovation and leadership to ensure that the Movement achieves greater humanitarian impact. These Principles and Rules encompass preparedness for response, disaster relief and early recovery activities. They complement commitments to disaster risk reduction and seek to encourage National Societies to link relief, recovery and development. They establish a coordinated and agreed approach to quality and accountability, and recognize partnerships with public authorities, humanitarian actors and other organizations external to the Movement. These Principles and Rules are adopted within the statutory framework of the Movement.
Asia Pacific National Societies DRM Strategy towards Community Resilience 2016-2020
This Strategy is intended to support National Societies (NS) strategic decision-making and planning as well as align local and national level disaster risk reduction. Having a region-wide alignment of actions will allow NS to work better together and support each other in times of disasters and crisis. This document will also support the planning of IFRC Secretariat Support to NS at various stages of the NS Development.
13th Southeast Asia Red Cross Red Crescent Leadership Meeting Jakarta Outcomes
The outcome document resulted from the 13th Southeast Asia Red Cross Red Crescent Leadership meeting that was held in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 27-28 September 2016, with the participation of the leaders of the National Societies of Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Viet Nam. The meeting was hosted by PMI of Indonesia ans supported by ICRC and IFRC.
The meeting saw the discussions of issues relevant to strengthening of the sustainability of National Societies, the Movement coordination and cooperation, the cooperation with ASEAN, as well as the One Billion Coalition for Resilience.
