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India: Appeal 2009-2010 (MAAIN001) - Annual report

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This report covers the period 1 January to 31 December 2009

Programme purpose: The purpose of disaster management is to reduce the number of deaths, injuries and impact from disasters.

The overall purpose of the health and care programme is to improve the Indian Red Cross Society's (IRCS) capacity in planning, to raise awareness on the preventive health needs and by responding to public health emergencies, including HIV/AIDS, through prevention, care and support by strengthening the Red Cross volunteer (RCV) network.

IRCS has improved capacity to provide effective services to reduce suffering of the vulnerable people by integrating it with disaster management, health and other programmes of the national society, and working with International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) and partner national societies to achieve Global Agenda Goal 3.

To enhance understanding of the Red Cross Red Crescent principles and values in the national society and improve its integration in disaster management, health and organizational development programmes.

Programme(s) summary:

The disaster management programme has witnessed significant increase in the rate of implementation during 2009. The programme activities were focusing on the community awareness, strengthening of the national disaster response mechanism, capacity building of the local branches and networking with national and international non-governmental organizations. The investment has been done over the years in order to build the capacity of IRCS and to have strong national disaster response mechanism. The floods in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka in 2009 gave IRCS the opportunity to see the impact of the investment done on the development of national disaster response mechanism. Though the flood relief operation was quite successful with many achievements, the further needs to strengthen the national disaster preparedness and response mechanism have also been identified.

The health and care programme saw the initiation of two new projects: the human pandemic preparedness (H2P) programme and India tuberculosis project. Besides the initiation of these two new projects, significant progress was made under the Red Cross Volunteers initiative. The HIV programme was implemented as planned with a good implementation rate. The Swedish Red Cross-funded HIV project came to an end in December 2009 and in early 2010 an end-term evaluation was carried out by the Swedish Red Cross for the regional HIV programmes. The evaluation will include the programme run by IRCS. The Hong Kong Red Cross supported HIV programme is being implemented at a good pace and will continue up to December 2010, with a possible extension.

The Red Cross Red Crescent principles and values programme continues to be promoted and incorporated into all the national society programmes, despite the availability of a small direct funding. The basics about Red Cross was printed and disseminated by the support of ICRC.

Financial situation: The total 2009 budget was CHF 2,605,457 (USD 2,425,609 or EUR 1,814,690) based on the programmes' workplan and funding situation. Coverage is 142 per cent while expenditure from January to December 2009 is 69 per cent of the total 2009 budget.

No. of people we help: The disaster management programme has directly benefitted 125,000 people, while indirectly it has benefited over 1.4 million people. The health and care programme directly and indirectly reached around 142,00 people.

People reached directly under organisational development are 6,000, while approximately 240,000 people are indirectly reached across the various state branches and the IRCS national headquarters.

The people reached across the various state branches and the IRCS national headquarters are the same as in the programmes as humanitarian values is integrated in programmes. People reached directly under humanitarian values are 500, through the youth camps and humanitarian values workshop.

Our partners: British Red Cross, Barclays Bank, Danish Red Cross/Danish government, Hong Kong branch of the Red Cross Society of China, Japanese Red Cross, Netherlands Red Cross/Netherlands government, Norwegian Red Cross/Norwegian government, Swedish Red Cross/Swedish government, OPEC and USAID contributed towards the 2009 annual appeal.

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, National AIDS Control Organization of India, UN agencies, World Health Organization and USAID are the main partners of the IRCS outside the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement.

The IRCS also has a number of Movement partners in country, such as the American Red Cross, British Red Cross, Canadian Red Cross, Danish Red Cross, German Red Cross, Italian Red Cross, Spanish Red Cross, and ICRC.

On behalf of the Indian Red Cross Society, the International Federation would like to thank all partners for their support.