Annual report

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Annual Report 
2022

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with its member National Societies to plan 
high-impact prevention, response and long-term 
resilience work at community level, where it is 
needed the most.
The needs of the communities and the priorities 
of National Societies – as strong local actors – 
were prioritized at every stage, as were efforts to 
build community resilience and support National 
Society capacity building.
Local actors – communities and National 
Societies – are best placed to know how to 
anticipate and prevent a disaster or crisis in 
their contexts, as well as how best to respond 
and recover with greater dignity and resilience. 
The IFRC is fully committed to ensuring that its 
collective work is as local as possible, and as 
global as necessary.
Strategic priorities
The IFRC’s 
Strategy 2030
identified five global chal-
lenges that must be addressed if communities 
are not only able to survive the interconnected 
risks and hazards affecting the most vulnerable 
and marginalized groups, but are also able to 
thrive, and live safer and more dignified lives.
These challenges are:
•
Climate and environment
•
Disasters and crises
•
Health and wellbeing
•
Migration and displacement
•
Values, power and inclusion.
In the area of 
climate and environment
, work 
this year included the publication of the results 
of the IFRC’s 2021 Global Climate Action and 
Environmental Sustainability Survey, which iden-
tified National Society and IFRC determination to 
scale up climate-smart disaster risk-reduction, 
preparedness, and anticipatory/early action, and 
to reduce the health impacts of climate change. 
In addition, the IFRC’s Operational Framework 
for scaling up Anticipatory Action 2021-2025 
was approved and disseminated widely across 
the network.
Nature-based solutions were mainstreamed 
with the launch of 
The Nature Navigator
, a guide 
for National Societies. The IFRC also continued 
to oversee the implementation of a global 
USAID nature-based solutions project in Jamaica, 
Vietnam and the Philippines.
The IFRC also worked with the Zurich Flood 
Resilience Alliance to develop a 
climate resilience 
measurement for communities
tool in 2022 to 
complement existing support tools. 
As part of the organization’s ambitious Global 
Climate Resilience Platform, the IFRC worked 
with the American Red Cross and the Red Cross 
Red Crescent Climate Centre to create a 10 mil-
lion US dollar Coastal City Resilience and Heat 
Project, which was approved by USAID BHA.
Also in 2022, the 
Green Response: Environmental 
Quick Guide
 and the IFRC 
Environmental Policy 
Toolkit
 were launched to improve National 
Societies’ environmental sustainability.