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04Delegates Program Annual Report 2011-2012Delegatesprogram overviewAs a member of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement,Australian Red Cross is part of the world’s largest humanitarian network. Withmillions of volunteers, members and staff across 188 countries, Red Cross is in aunique position to reach vulnerable people quickly in times of need and to workwith local people to provide the most appropriate assistance.Australian Red Cross recruits, trains, deploys and supports technical specialists,who utilise their skills and experience around the world in response to requestsfrom any part of the International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement. AustralianRed Cross delegates may be mobilised to:• Work with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red CrescentSocieties (‘the Federation’) to respond to the immediate impacts of disasters.• Work with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to provideurgent humanitarian assistance to people affected by war and armed conflict.• Work with the Federation and National Red Cross Societies to assist peopleto prepare for and recover from disasters and achieve healthier, safer andmore sustainable lives.Delegates share their technical expertise, working directly with people in vulnerablesituations as well as strengthening the capacity of national societies to be effective,well-functioning humanitarian organisations. Through these deployments, delegatescontribute to the program’s four objectives, including:1. To help strengthen the Red Cross Movement’s disaster managementcapacity, particularly in the Asia Pacific, by strategically deploying disastermanagement delegates 1 to key roles 2 within the Federation and/or supportingnational societies.2. To assist disaster prone and disaster affected communities, particularly in theAsia Pacific, by mobilising rapidly deployable disaster response delegates 3 tosupport Red Cross National Societies’ disaster response activities.3. To contribute to the ICRC’s global mandate to help victims of conflicts andinternal violence by deploying suitably skilled delegates.4. To contribute to the effectiveness of Australian Red Cross programming,particularly in disaster management, by acquiring, retaining and sharing theknowledge and experience of returned delegates.1. Disaster management delegates include delegates skilled in water sanitation, health, shelter, logistics, tracingand general disaster management (including response, preparedness and recovery).2. Key roles are missions that have a disaster management focus in the Asia Pacific, or positions aligned withAustralian Red Cross disaster management programming, including grassroots positions or senior positions ofinfluence in key locations.3. Relief supplies and technical equipment may also be dispatched as part of other Australian Red Crossprograms or appeals, to support disaster response activities.
Programachievements05Objective One: To help strengthen the Red CrossMovement’s disaster management capacity, particularly inthe Asia Pacific, by strategically deploying disastermanagement delegates to key roles within the Federationand/or supporting national societies.In recognition of the continued challenges countries in the Asia Pacific region faceduring times of disasters, Australian Red Cross maintains a firm commitment tostrengthening the capacity and resilience 1 of communities, by working with nationalsocieties and the Federation on disaster management programming, includingdisaster risk reduction and preparedness, response and recovery.Australian Red Cross deployed disaster management delegates, includingdelegates skilled in water and sanitation, health, shelter, logistics and programmanagement to work with the Federation and national societies in the Asia Pacificregion. Strengthening capacity is an inherent feature of all missions undertaken bydelegates. Australian Red Cross delegates work to improve knowledge, skills andpractice at all levels, whether at the organisational and institutional levels throughpolicy development and coordination to influence practice, or at the communitylevel to directly achieve better outcomes for vulnerable people.Indicator 1: At least two disaster management-focussed positions in theFederation’s Asia Pacific zone headquarters are supported byAustralian Red Cross.Six positions in the Federation’s Asia Pacific zone headquarter office weresupported by the Australian Red Cross Delegates Program. AusAID programfunding supported four of these positions for a total of 48 months in the field.Disaster management positions included the Head of the Disaster ManagementUnit for the region (Michael Annear); Regional Water and Sanitation Coordinator(Kathryn Clarkson); Regional Shelter Coordinator (Gregg McDonald); Senior Officer,Quality and Accountability, Tsunami Unit (Chris Staines); IDRL 2 Asia PacificCoordinator (Tessa Kelly); and IDRL Legal Officer (Lucia Cipullo).Inherent in these long-term strategic and influential positions was the developmentof strategies and policies to provide overarching guidance in the area of disasterpreparedness, response and recovery. This work enhances internationalcoordination and promotes an integrated and consistent approach to all aspects ofthe Federation’s disaster management work with national societies in the AsiaPacific region. This includes capacity and resilience strengthening at the communitylevel, through disaster risk reduction and response preparedness, to recoveryprogramming including addressing cross cutting issues such as climate changeadaptation.1. Resilience is defined as ‘the ability of individuals, communities, organisations, countries exposed to disaster,crisis and underlying vulnerabilities to anticipate, reduce the impact of, cope with and recover from the effectsof adversity without compromising their long term prospects’.2. International Disaster Response Law
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