Swedish Red Cross (SRC) Hum 2021-2025 Svenska Röda Korset (SRK) Hum 2021-2025 The aim of the projects is to provide timely and relevant support to people in situations of acute crisis and to strengthen the resilience of people and communities in vulnerable situations to better prepare for, cope with and recover from crises. Sida's analysis is that SRC has the capacity and competence to implement the activities listed in the application. SRC's added  value is the large network of over 190 national societies and over 13 million volunteers all over the world. 

SRC will strengthen the capacity of the national societies to deliver a rapid and relevant humanitarian assistance and also to work on Disaster Risk Reduction. SRC also aims at supporting the National Society partners to contribute to a stronger and more effective International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (RCRC) Movement.

The proposal covers projects in 10 contexts including: Niger, South Sudan, Bangladesh, DPRK, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Northern Triangle and Venezuela/Colombia. This support is mainly covering four sectors: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH); health; Restoring Family Links (RFL) and protection; Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). The focus is on saving lives through a relevant humanitarian assistance, in line with Sida’s humanitarian strategy 2021-2025, part of the projects also aims at increasing resilience and dignity through strengthening the national society, volunteers and local structures to ensure sustainability and quality throughout the project cycle. SRK bedöms av Sida ha god kapacitet, kompetens och förankring för att genomföra den verksamhet som SRK söker stöd för. Ett tydligt mervärde vad gäller SRK är att organisationen är del av Röda kors- och Röda halvmånerörelsen som består av ett omfattande nätverk som inkluderar ICRC, IFRC och över 190 nationella Röda kors och Röda halvmåneföreningar och 13 miljoner volontärer på plats världen över.

SRK kommer att stärka nationella föreningars kapacitet att leverera en snabbt och relevant humanitär respons samt att arbeta med katastrofriskreducering. SRK kommer också att bidra till en koordinerad och effektiv rörelse som möjliggör projekt med hög kvalitet och i linje med internationella standarder.

De tio specifika kontexterna som täcks av SRK:s ansökan är Niger, Sydsudan, Bangladesh, DPRK, Irak, Libanon, Palestina, Syrien, Centralamerika och Colombia/ Venezuela. Stödet gäller främst fyra sektorer: vatten och sanitet; hälsa; familjeåterförening och skydd samt katastrofriskreducering. Fokus i ansökningarna för de olika landkontexterna syftar till att bidra med tidskritiskt relevant humanitärt stöd för att rädda liv och lindra nöd, vilket är i linje med Sidas humanitära strategi.  Insatserna bidrar också till ökad resiliens och värdighet genom att den nationella föreningarna, volontärer och lokala strukturer stärks för att säkra hållbarhet och kvalitet i insatserna. The objectives of the interventions proposed by SRC for 2022 are in line with Sidas Humanitarian Strategy 2021-2025. The interventions intend to provide relevant and rapid support to people in acute crisis and to strengthen the resilience of people and communities. The annual projects are implemented in South Sudan, Bangladesh, the DPRK, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria. The interventions focus on four sectors: water and sanitation, health, family reunification and protection as well as disaster risk reduction, and aim to contribute with time-critical humanitarian support to save lives and alleviate suffering. The projects will also contribute to increased resilience by the national societies, and sustainability will be ensured by strengthening volunteers and local structures.

SRC contributes to enhance the overall capacity within the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement to implement projects with high quality. Particular focus for 2022 is to strengthen the capacity of partners to respond to national emergencies, with focus on an environmental/climate perspective (Green Response). SRC has applied for support to a specific capacity building project that will provide effective and green WaSH support to targeted population with local means.

In line with Grand Bargain's workstream to increase locally led humanitarian aid, SRC will continue to strengthen the work of volunteers through the project "Volunteering in Conflicts and Emergencies". SRC assumes that better trained and prepared volunteers will be more resilient and able to handle the various risks that they are exposed to in their work. This project is a continuation of the methods project supported in 2021, with the objective of 1) increasing the safety, well-being and resilience of volunteers; and 2) developing flexible, independent and sustainable networks and groups of volunteers who have the capacity to respond to humanitarian needs in sudden disasters but through a longer-term humanitarian effort.

SRC will respond to new crises or rapidly escalating crisis by using the Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) and funding for the IFRC's Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF). In terms of SRC emergency response capacity, SRC holds three WaSH ERU modules ready for deployment, supports the CCM-C (Community Case Management  Cholera) Public Health ERU and is developing a IPC (Infection, Prevention, Control) Public Health ERU. A pool of trained delegates are ready to deploy to both ICRC and IFRC operations.

SRC increased its support to the DREF in 2022 as well as its engagement in the fund. SRC received the double amount of funds for the DREF from Sida for 2022 compared to 2021. DREF is considered to be the fastest tool within the Movement for securing locally-led and -owned humanitarian response in the event of a disaster, and it is Sidas assessment that it is one of the most efficient funding mechanisms to enable rapid humanitarian response, including in hard to reach areas. Sida will also engage in more discussions with SRC the coming year on how we can support the Forecast Based Action (FbA) window of the DREF to enhance early action through pre-positioning, readiness and pre-agreed early action activities.

With funding from Sida SRC will also continue to provide technical support to ICRC through delegates deployed to the ICRC within thematic areas where SRC has expertise and competencies. SRC delegates work mainly within WaSH, health and protection with a focus on those context where SRC has a longer-term engagement or other prioritised humanitarian contexts. ICRC has expressed that it highly values the expertise that Swedish delegates hold and their added value to the operations. The delegates are, upon their return to SRC, also able to contribute with their experience and knowledge gained from the work with the ICRC.