international rescue committee uk · colombia kyrgyzstan nepal ecuador angola chile ... the...

INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE UKFROM HARM TO HOMEAnnuAl rEVIEW 2011

IRC ANNUAL REVIEW 2011

AFGHANISTAN

JORDAN

IRAQ

PAKISTAN

YEMEN

AZERBAIJAN

LEBANON

MYANMAR

THAILAND

SRI LANKA

SOMALIA

BURUNDI

TANZANIA

ZIMBABWE

RWANDA

KENYAUGANDA

REPUBLICOF CONGO

CENTRALAFRICAN

REPUBLIC

SUDAN(SOUTH)

ETHIOPIASIERRA LEONE

HAITI

IVORY COASTLIBERIA

TUNISIA

NORTHERN CAUCASUS(RUSSIA)

DEMOCRATICREPUBLIC OF

CONGO

CHAD

KOSOVO

UNITED STATESOF AMERICA

INDONESIA

SENEGAL

COLOMBIA

KYRGYZSTAN

NEPAL

ECUADOR

ANGOLA

CHILE

ZAMBIA

EGYPT

GHANA

LIBYA

WEST BANK

SOUTH AFRICA

VENEZUELA

MALTA

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

NEW YORKNJ

CA

AZ

KS

TX

FL

GA

UT

LONDON

GENEVA

BRUSSELS

NAIROBI

WASHINGTON, D.C.MD

VA

WA

BANGKOK

ID

1.7 million 21 millionWe gave 1.7 million people access to clean drinking water and sanitation.

Our doctors, nurses and community health workers provided 21 million people with primary and reproductive healthcare.

500,000 420,000We vaccinated over 500,000 children against disease and our IrC-supported clinics and hospitals helped 192,000 women deliver healthy babies..

We trained 11,000 educators and supported 2,255 schools attended by 420,000 students, over half of them girls.

23,00016,000We counselled and cared for nearly 16,000 survivors of sexual violence and educated and mobilised over 590,000 men, women and children to lead prevention efforts in their communities.

100,000+Patients treated for malnutrition and starvation at the IrC’s Hagadera hospital in Dadaab, Kenya during the East Africa famine in 2011.

1 awardIn May 2012 ITV news won a prestigious One World Media Award for their news reports direct from the IrC’s Hagadera hospital, showing our groundbreaking work saving lives during the East Africa famine.

We created or obtained over 23,000 jobs for beneficiaries and provided skills training to over 7,000 young people.

01 INTROdUCTION 01 MAP:EMERGENCYRELIEF,

LONG-TERMHOPE,365DAYSAYEAR...WORLDWIDE

02 LETTERFROMTHECO-CHAIRSANDEXECUTIVEDIRECTOROFIRC-UK

ThE YEAR IN REvIEw04 SpECIAL REpORT SAVINGLIVESIN

EASTAFRICA:ALIFELINEINTHEDESERT

08 PAKISTAN:SOWINGTHE

SEEDSOFRECOVERY10 MYANMAR:RECOVERING

FROMTHESTORM

12 NEw ChALLENGES, NEw pARTNERShIpS

13 JAPAN15 ZIMbAbWE15 LIbYA16 SPOTLIGHTON

EMERGENCIES20 DOMESTICVIOLENCE:

AHUMANITARIANEMERGENCY

IN ThE UK:24 ADVOCACYINTHE

UKANDEUROPE26 FINANCIALREPORT28 OURSUPPORTERS,

DONORSANDKEYPEOPLE

CONTENTS

EMERGENCY RELIEf, LONG-TERM hOpE 365 dAYS A YEAR…

WHERE WE OPERATEAROUND THE WORLD

IRCOffices IRCProgrammes SurgeProgrammes TheIRCmanagestheSurgeProjectwhichhelpsthe

UnitedNationsprotectrefugeesduringacrisis.Surgeprojectstaffmembersaredeployedinthesecountries.

01


AFGHANISTAN

JORDAN

IRAQ

PAKISTAN

YEMEN

AZERBAIJAN

LEBANON

MYANMAR

THAILAND

SRI LANKA

SOMALIA

BURUNDI

TANZANIA

ZIMBABWE

RWANDA

KENYAUGANDA

REPUBLICOF CONGO

CENTRALAFRICAN

REPUBLIC

SUDAN(SOUTH)

ETHIOPIASIERRA LEONE

HAITI

IVORY COASTLIBERIA

TUNISIA

NORTHERN CAUCASUS(RUSSIA)

DEMOCRATICREPUBLIC OF

CONGO

CHAD

KOSOVO

UNITED STATESOF AMERICA

INDONESIA

SENEGAL

COLOMBIA

KYRGYZSTAN

NEPAL

ECUADOR

ANGOLA

CHILE

ZAMBIA

EGYPT

GHANA

LIBYA

WEST BANK

SOUTH AFRICA

VENEZUELA

MALTA

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

NEW YORKNJ

CA

AZ

KS

TX

FL

GA

UT

LONDON

GENEVA

BRUSSELS

NAIROBI

WASHINGTON, D.C.MD

VA

WA

BANGKOK

ID

THE IRC’S EFFICIENCY

3% 4%93%

Fundraising Management and General Program Services


The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people survive, recover and rebuild their lives.We restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

…WORLDWIDE

Cover image A mother waits for her baby son to be treated at Hagadera Hospital, Dadaab, Kenya. In Dadaab, three out of five children suffer from malnutrition. Once identified, the children are rushed to the IRC’s stabilisation centre, which is part of the IRC-run hospital in Dadaab. Here they receive food and medical care.

3% 4%93%

Fundraising Management and General Programme Services


02


LEttER FROM tHECO-CHAIRs AND EXECUtIVEDIRECtOR OF IRC-UK

Since its historic beginnings in 1933, enabling refugees to escape from Hitler’s Nazi regime, the International Rescue Committee has helped those facing conflict and disaster, providing essential relief as soon as a disaster hits and staying long after the world’s attention has moved on. In a year characterised by political upheaval and devastating drought, the IRC’s emergency response team rose to countless new challenges as it responded to a host of crises across the globe.

As the situation in East Africa worsened following months of disappointing rains and spiralling food prices, the IRC was on the ground, building and repairing wells, hand pumps and pipelines. At the IRC hospital in Hagadera, Kenya, IRC doctors and nurses treated some 500 refugees daily and provided fortified food for thousands of malnourished children. The harrowing images of a baby called Minhaj, treated for severe malnutrition at Hagadera hospital, shocked the world and became one of the defining images of the year. His dramatic recovery just three months later offered an uplifting story of hope and resilience.

Our experience providing life-saving services has shown us that in emergency settings, it is often women and girls who are the most vulnerable. Our commitment to the protection and empowerment of women and girls lies at the heart of all our overseas work. The IRC’s first Women’s Protection and Empowerment (WPE) programme was launched 15 years ago for Burundian refugees in Tanzania, and we now have programmes in 20 countries around the world, led by over 300 dedicated experts. Over the last year, IRC-UK has worked tirelessly to make the needs of women and girls known, raising awareness of the fact that women are typically the neglected victims of protracted conflicts, continuing to suffer violence in their own homes long after the conflict has ended.

The IRC’s innovative programmes for women and girls have helped to establish us as a leader on this difficult issue. This last year has seen IRC-UK cement itself as an authority on both emergency response and women’s empowerment in a range of forums, from parliamentary events, to providing expert technical advice to government donors, to being consulted by critically acclaimed news broadcasters.

At our annual policy conference at Ditchley Park, we welcomed a host of policymakers, donors and academics to discuss a comprehensive approach to tackling violence against women and girls. The conference resulted in the production of guidance for UK Department for International Development (DFID) field staff on effective programmes to address the needs of women and girls in conflict-affected and fragile states. This document, along with several others that the IRC has contributed to as part of an expert panel, will form the core of DFID’s approach to tackling violence in these contexts. IRC-UK also hosted several expert visitors from our global technical team and many of you will have joined us at our evening events and breakfast briefings to hear them give first-hand reports of our groundbreaking work in the field.

In the wake of an emergency, the first people we turn to are you – our dedicated supporters. It is thanks to your generous support that we have been able to pioneer innovative new programmes – learning and improving each year – but never straying from our fundamental commitment to improve the lives of people contending with the most desperate of circumstances. We are extremely grateful to our supporters for helping us to achieve all the important milestones outlined in this Annual Review, and we hope you will continue to support us in the future.

No doubt the next year will bring with it new humanitarian challenges. However, we are confident that with your support, the IRC will find the means to respond to these challenges as we continue to strive towards our ultimate goal of helping uprooted people to rebuild their lives safely, quickly and with dignity.

CAROLYN MAKINSON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

JEREMY CARVER CO-CHAIR

KATHLEEN O’DONOVAN CO-CHAIR

250,000DROUgHT-AffECTED pEOplE In EAsT AfRICA HAVE bEnEfITED fROm EmERgEnCy WATER AnD HygIEnE sERVICEs DElIVERED by THE IRC sInCE jAnUARy 2011

300 IRC FIELD STAFFpROVIDE COUnsEllIng, HEAlTH CARE AnD OTHER EssEnTIAl sERVICEs TO WOmEn In 20 DIffEREnT COUnTRIEs glObAlly, As pART Of OUR pROTECTIOn AnD EmpOWERmEnT pROgRAmmEs

03

THE YEAR IN REVIEW


THIS SECTION INCLUDES

04 SpECIAL REpORT SAVINGlIVeS INeAStAfrIcA:

AlIfelINeINtHeDeSert

08PAkIStAN:SOWINGtHeSeeDSOfrecOVerY

11 mYANmAr:recOVerINGfrOmtHeStOrm

12 NEW CHALLENGES, NEW pARTNERSHIpS13 JAPAN14 ZImBABWe15 lIBYA

16SPOtlIGHtONemerGeNcIeS

20DOmeStIcVIOleNce:AHUmANItArIANemerGeNcY

04

IRC ANNUAL REPORt 2011

sPECIAL REPORtsAVINg LIVEs IN EAst AFRICA

A LIFELINE IN THE DESERT

in 2011, a punishing drought swept through east africa, killing livestock and turning once-fertile farms into fields of dust. malnutrition and death rates soared in Somalia, Kenya and ethiopia, and hundreds of thousands of impoverished Somalis embarked on desperate treks across the desert, seeking help in neighbouring countries. The irC, which has been working in east africa since the early 1990s, responded with an aid effort across the region, providing livestock, water, food, hygiene and medical care to tens of thousands of refugees and displaced people. By the end of the year, the famine that killed as many as 100,000 people in Somalia had ended but millions were still in urgent need of food and assistance. Today, the irC continues to deliver lifesaving aid to people in all three east african countries.

LeFT At the height of the drought and famine more than 1,400 Somali refugees arrived daily at the Dadaab camp complex in Kenya. The IRC helped establish reception centres where newly-arrived Somali refugees received food and medical aid. Newly-arrived, people gather outside one of the centres waiting to be admitted.

rigHT Many Somali refugees arrived at Dadaab with nothing, stripped even of their clothes by militants or bandits who roam the area near the Kenya-Somalia border.

05


LeFT Many infants, children, pregnant women and new mothers arrived at Dadaab suffering from severe malnutrition. Once their needs were assessed they were rushed to the IRC hospital in Dadaab where they received medical care and food fortified with micronutrients.

BoTTom IRC physician Dr. John Kiogora examines seven-month-old Minhaj Gedi Farah, who arrived at the IRC hospital weighing only 6.5 pounds and on the brink of death. Admitted into intensive care, he was nursed back to health, and within three months had gained over 10 pounds.

rigHT Three months after arriving at the IRC hospital in Dadaab emaciated and near death, Minhaj Gedi Farah, held by Dr. John Kiogora, has fully recovered. “Seeing children coming in here sick and near death and then recovering gives me great joy,” says Dr. Kiogora.

06 sPECIAL REPORtsAVINg LIVEs IN EAst AFRICA


LeFT Crowded and unsanitary conditions in Dadaab made it a breeding ground for infectious disease. To prevent outbreaks, the IRC carried out vaccination campaigns against polio, measles and other diseases.

rigHT Inside Somalia, the IRC provided desperately needed health care to more than 40,000 displaced people in Mogadishu, the war-ravaged capital where cholera and other diseases preyed upon a malnourished population. In central Somalia, IRC aid workers repaired wells and provided emergency water taps, like this one in Qodax Toole village.

BoTTom Somalia’s drought devastated livestock – a catastrophe for people who are mainly pastoralists and derive their income from livestock. To prevent further losses, the IRC built water troughs for animals and vaccinated and dewormed some 35,000 livestock.

07


Top Newly-arrived Somali children wait for health screening and vaccination at the IRC’s reception centre in Dadaab.

LeFT The IRC helped dig and build new latrines and sanitation systems in Somalia’s Mudug region to prevent the spread of disease.

rigHT To help Somalis get back on their feet, the IRC offered them a chance to participate in cash-for-work programmes. Some 80,000 people took temporary jobs rebuilding roads, water supplies and health facilities.

08


YEAR IN REVIEWPAKIstAN

LeFT A father and son in an IRC-supported village in Sindh province.

rigHT A farmer ploughs the fields in Camp Korona, an IRC-supported village in northwestern Pakistan.

oppoSiTe page Farmers in Camp Korona lost all their crops to the floods. The IRC helped replant their fields. Here, village elder Fazle Khuda weeds his new field.

1.9 MILLION HOmEs DEsTROyED by 2010 flOODs

303,835 HOUsEHOlDs CURREnTly AIDED by THE IRC

50,000 gOATs AnD CHICkEns DIsTRIbUTED by THE IRC

In Pakistan, a country prone to natural disasters, feeding one’s family can be a daily struggle. Recent earthquakes and floods have not only destroyed bridges, buildings and roads, they have also ruined livelihoods, especially farming. The experience of Anwar Ayaz is typical.

For years, Ayaz, a 28-year-old father of five in the country’s impoverished Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, lost half his grain harvest to rats, insects and moisture. In 2010, he and his family – in fact, his entire village – were plunged further into poverty when the country’s worst floods in half a century washed away their crops.

To assist farmers like Ayaz, the IRC has been distributing seeds and fertiliser, repairing broken irrigation systems and replacing lost livestock in communities across Pakistan. One pilot programme has proved particularly effective. Ayaz and 94 other farmers received impermeable storage bags, the first ever used in Pakistan. Capable of holding a ton of grain, the tough, rubber “cocoons” are designed to withstand insects, rodents and rain – even floods.

Last August, Ayaz sat through an IRC workshop, where he learned how to use the bag. He remembers leaving the training with the rolled-up cocoon balanced on his shoulder and a smile on his face. This winter, he proclaimed the bag a great success. “With these cocoons, we haven’t lost a single kernel,” he declared.

Further south, in Sindh province, the IRC delivered one goat each to 4,000 families who had lost their homes and livestock in the floods. A goat can mean many things to subsistence farmers like 32-year-old Shenaz. “I’m going to use the goat to provide milk for my family,” she said. Others have bred the goats to start small flocks.

There are similar scenes across much of Pakistan. Widows who lost their husbands to disaster have turned a couple of IRC-supplied hens into flocks that produce eggs for income. In total, the IRC distributed more than 50,000 chickens and goats in 2011, and provided training on how to care for them.

To further stimulate local economies, the IRC distributed micro-grants to villagers planning to rebuild small businesses lost to the floods. The IRC also provided short-term employment to subsistence farmers, who were paid a living wage to clean and rebuild eroded water channels – work that benefited them threefold: by providing needed income, injecting cash into the local community and rebuilding essential village infrastructure.

“Altogether,” says the IRC’s Pakistan country director Tammy Hasselfeldt, “it’s a holistic response aimed at providing both immediate emergency support and the tools to help rebuild, following one of Pakistan’s worst-ever natural disasters.”

SOWING THE SEEDS OF RECOVERY

09


“tHeIrcPrOVIDeSemerGeNcYSUPPOrtANDtHetOOlStOHelPreBUIlDAfterONeOfPAkIStAN’SWOrSt-eVerNAtUrAlDISASterS.”

Tammy HasselfeldT IRC Pakistan country director

10


“AftertHeStOrmItWASImPOSSIBletOeArNmONeYANDIHADtOBUYfOODONcreDIt.NOWIeArNAlIVINGfrOmfISHINGANDtHeSHOPkeePerGIVeSmecreDItWHeNeVerINeeD.”

U maUng HTUn THein Fisherman, Minbya township, Myanmar

11


YEAR IN REVIEWMYANMAR

oppoSiTe After losing his fishing boat to Cyclone Giri, U Maung Htun Thein, (centre), was unable to support his family. With the aid of the IRC, Thein bought a new boat and equipment and is now back at work.

BoTTom LeFT Cyclone Giri damaged and contaminated water systems. In response, IRC specialists set up emergency water treatment units and distributed clean drinking water.

BoTTTom rigHT Cyclone victims used any means available to transport goods or simply to get around.

RECOVERING FROM THE STORM

50,000 ACREs Of fARmlAnD DEsTROyED by CyClOnE gIRI

140,000 pEOplE In THE sOUTHWEsT DElTA AffECTED by CyClOnE gIRI

342 COAsTAl VIllAgEs AIDED by THE IRC

On 20 October 2010, Cyclone Giri struck the western coast of Myanmar with devastating force. The storm, packing winds of 180 kph lashed the coastal communities of Rakhine state where many poor families live, mostly in bamboo huts. Tens of thousands of people were made homeless and the region’s vital fishing industry was wiped out.

“All my fishing equipment was swept away and it was impossible to earn money to take care of my wife and children,” recalls U Maung Htun Thein, a resident of Minbya township.

Giri hit Myanmar, also known as Burma, only two and a half years after Cyclone Nargis, one of the deadliest storms in recorded history. The IRC had mounted a large relief effort after Cyclone Nargis, gaining crucial experience that enabled it to respond quickly to Giri. In both cases, IRC relief workers were among the first to respond, providing food, water, health care and sanitation to the most affected communities.

But long-term recovery and rebuilding posed a more difficult challenge, especially in one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world and in a region vulnerable to natural disaster. According to government reports, Giri destroyed 80 per cent of fishing boats and 50 per cent of fishing equipment and supplies in Minbya, where the majority of people make a subsistence living fishing. Many families were forced to borrow money to make ends meet and found themselves deep in debt.

“Despite my best efforts, I had to buy food on credit,” says Thein. “There were times when I was unable to pay on time, and the shopkeeper began to lose confidence in me and no longer sold food to my family.”

In response, in 2011, the IRC launched programmes designed to revive the local economy in over 150 cyclone-affected villages. The initiatives included cash grants to fishermen for the purchase of locally made wooden boats and fishing equipment, distribution of fishing nets, support for agricultural production, and rehabilitation and construction of paddy embankments, access roads and water projects.

So far, the IRC has helped over 7,000 households in Minbya and Myebon townships return to fishing for a living, says Gordana Ivkovic-Grujic, the IRC’s country director in Myanmar. “The IRC’s cash grants not only enabled families to start fishing again, but had a positive effect on the entire local economy,” she says. “Village boat makers are able to earn additional income from the construction of new boats and vendors are buying and selling more fresh fish at the local market.”

Thein experienced the benefits of the IRC’s programmes. After receiving a cash grant of £50, he purchased a small wooden boat and fishing supplies. He soon earned enough to provide for his family’s basic needs and to repay his debts. “Now the shopkeeper is willing to sell me food on credit whenever I need, because I can earn a sufficient living from my fishing activities,” Thein says with confidence.

12 YEAR IN REVIEW


NEW CHALLENGES, NEW pARTNERSHIpS

in 2011, the irC brought rapid emergency relief to uprooted and displaced people around the world. But when conflict subsides or an emergency passes, the irC is committed to helping lay the groundwork for lasting peace and economic development. That means forging close partnerships with governments, grassroots organisations and the private sector in the countries where we work. partnering with others and supporting their efforts to rebuild and ultimately take full responsibility for their own development are central to the irC’s approach. on the following four pages are examples of three vital irC partnerships.

£2.2 MILLION DOnATED by THE IRC TO jApAnEsE pARTnERs

250,000 pEOplE AIDED by IRC pARTnERs

£816 MILLION DAmAgEs sUffERED by THE jApAnEsE fIsHIng InDUsTRy

BoTTom LeFT Waka Ueno, 86, lost her home in the tsunami. She now lives in an evacuation centre in the fishing hamlet of Hakozaki.

BoTTom rigHT Children at the Karakuwa Elementary School in Kesennuma prepare for a performance. The IRC and its partner, Peace Winds Japan, equipped the school with furniture and other items.

oppoSiTe A fisherman harvests abalones in Minami Sanriku, a once-thriving fishing village where some 9,500 people perished.

13

“I’VelOSteVerYtHING.tHemOStImPOrtANttHINGfOrtHIScOmmUNItYISGettINGBAcktOWOrk.”

KazUmi goTo Fisherman, Minami sanriku, Japan


JApAN: SUppORTING TSUNAMI SURVIVORSRikuzentakata didn’t stand a chance. On 11 March 2011, a powerful tsunami generated by the largest earthquake in Japan’s recorded history hit the city, leaving a wake of utter destruction in its path. The disaster obliterated the city centre, killed almost a tenth of its 23,000 people, and flattened the economy.

Over a year later, thousands of homeless survivors still live in evacuation centres in the few public buildings left standing. Bulldozers and trucks clear debris from dawn to dusk. Photos and keepsakes recovered from the rubble are carefully placed near shelter entrances for owners to claim.

“Many survivors continue to show signs of severe stress,” says Masumi Honda, a programme officer with the Association for Aid and Relief Japan (AAR), which partnered with the IRC to support relief work in devastated cities and

towns on Japan’s northeast coast. After initial efforts to meet emergency needs, AAR turned to the unfolding problem of unemployment and the loss of livelihoods. “With the IRC’s support, we’ve been able to combine jobs programmes with trauma counselling and physiotherapy,” notes Masumi.

South of Rikuzentakata, the IRC is working with Peace Winds Japan and other aid organisations to help one particularly hard-hit group get back on their feet: fishermen, who for generations have made their living harvesting urchins, abalones and seaweed in some of Japan’s richest fishing grounds.

“I’ve lost everything,” says Kazumi Goto, pointing to the wreckage of his boat marooned offshore. His once-thriving village saw its population cut

by half. “The most important thing for this community is getting back to work.”

Still another IRC partner, JEN (Japan Emergency NGO), is helping fishermen manufacture new nets, oars and other equipment, and working to repair the region’s aquaculture industry. “The support we’ve received from the IRC has allowed us to respond to the needs here very quickly,” says Fumiko Tanaka, a programme officer with JEN. “Reconstruction of this region has just started and JEN is committed to supporting the affected people for as long as it takes.”

As Shinko Tana, the IRC’s Japan adviser and liaison to Japanese aid groups, sees it, “The revival of the fishery industry is critical economically, but it is also vital to people’s sense of identity as individuals and as a community.”

14 YEAR IN REVIEWNEW CHALLENgEs, NEW PARtNERsHIPs


“WereAllYWANttOPrActIcefArmINGASABUSINeSS.WeAreSOGrAtefUltOtHeIrcfOrPUttINGUStOGetHerWItHBUSINeSSeStHAtcANmAketHISHAPPeN.”Tapiwa sande Farmer, Bvute village, Zimbabwe

15


oppoSiTe Tapiwa and Anna Sande cultivate 3,000 pepper plants on their farm in Bvute village, Zimbabwe.

Top Tapiwa Sande is able to grow his own crops all year by tapping the chilli project’s irrigation system. Water is provided by the nearby Gairezi river, making the project sustainable. With the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime in Libya,

young people have begun to rebuild their country. It’s not an easy task. Libya lacks an independent civil society and since the revolution the country has been without a central authority.

This has not thwarted four young women from Tripoli who have shared a dream of empowering Libyan women since they met in secondary school. With the support of the IRC they are working to make their dream a reality by founding a women’s organisation, aptly named Phoenix. In less than a year, Phoenix has opened a volunteer-run women’s centre with a childcare facility where children can play while their mothers meet, take part in counselling, or discuss job training and opportunities.

“We want this to be a place where women can meet others and share experiences,” says Ibtihal, one of Phoenix’s founders.

In addition to funding the women’s centre the IRC is providing technical support and advice to Phoenix, despite difficulties imposed by continuing political upheaval in Libya.

“During the Gaddafi regime, women in Libya lacked representation and organised presence in the community,” says Daire O’Reilly, an IRC emergency response coordinator. “Now there’s an opportunity to change that, and our support of Phoenix will help achieve the goal.”

Tapiwa and Anna Sande have never tasted McIlhenny’s famous Tabasco sauce, the fiery condiment that hot-sauce lovers sprinkle on everything from eggs to oysters. Nor has the Zimbabwean couple, in their early forties, visited Louisiana, in the United States, where the company has manufactured the distinctive seasoning for close to 150 years.

But the Sandes and other farmers in eastern Zimbabwe’s Nyanga, Mutare and Mustasa districts celebrate this Cajun classic as much as the most ardent pepper enthusiast. For the past year, they’ve been growing chillies exclusively for the McIlhenny Company, the result of an IRC programme that partners undercapitalised local farmers with private companies and government agencies to help them access global markets and pull their families out of poverty.

“I read somewhere that Tabasco chillies are very good antioxidants, although I had never eaten one!” says Tapiwa, who was looking to improve income from his half-acre farm in Bvute village. In a happy instance of serendipity, the IRC, as part of its economic initiative in Zimbabwe, put the Sandes in touch with Better Agriculture, an international distributor with experience growing Tabasco chillies. Now the Sandes have 3,000 pepper plants spread out over two fields.

“This is our second harvest,” explains Tapiwa. “We have been farmers for a very long time, planting mostly corn. But we couldn’t find buyers for our crops and had no real cash flow. So when this project came, we welcomed it.”

The Sandes earn about £634 a year from their harvests, a good income in a country where 83 per cent of the population lives on less than £1.25 a day, and they plan to expand. The Sandes have set up a demonstration field where they and fellow chilli farmers receive advanced training. “They show us how to plant the chillies, how to apply the fertilisers, how to distance one plant from the other,” says Tapiwa.

In addition, the Sandes and other farmers are able to tap water from the chilli project’s irrigation system so they can grow their own crops all year round. Farmers are encouraged to be self-sufficient and receive training in growing crops that will enable them to feed their families even as they also grow high-value chillies for sale, says Priscilla Dembetembe, an IRC economic recovery and development coordinator.

Enock Chapinduka, Agritex’s horticultual expert for the district, estimates that 200 farmers have benefited from the Tabasco initiative (which generates 450 tons of pepper paste annually) and more than 1,600 others are profiting from similar agricultural partnerships. “With the IRC’s help, we are able to train our farmers, who in turn are very happy to see that the chillies are making them a profit,” says Chapinduka.

“We really want to practice farming as a business,” says Anna. “We are so grateful to the IRC for putting us together with businesses that can make this happen.”

ZIMbAbWE: HARVESTING pROSpERITY

LIbYA: pHOENIX RISING

50 AVERAgE lIfE EXpECTAnCy In ZImbAbWE

83% pERCEnTAgE Of pEOplE lIVIng On lEss THAn £1.25 A DAy

1,800 fARmERs WHO HAVE pROfITED fROm IRC sUppORTED AgRICUlTURAl pARTnERsHIps

aBove Libyan women and children protest in Tripoli during the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.

sPOtLIgHt ON EMERgENCIEs

THE IRC’S EMERGENCY RESpONSE AND pREpAREDNESS UNIT


16

IMMEDIACY OF RESpONSE

Recognising that a crisis can strike at any moment, the IRC has an emergency team on standby, able to deploy within 72 hours.

We make it a priority to conduct regular assessments of countries at risk of conflict or natural disaster, which helps us respond before a crisis reaches a tipping point.

EMERGENCY pREpAREDNESS

The IRC is committed to emergency preparedness – giving field teams, local partners and communities the training and resources necessary to provide immediate relief when disaster strikes. Our stockpile of equipment and supplies in Rotterdam, one of the largest and most advanced ports in the world, allows us to dispatch life-saving aid immediately wherever it is most needed.

The IRC also maintains a rota of staff on standby around the world to ensure we have the expertise to respond to large-scale and multiple emergencies.

pROFESSIONAL AND EXpERT TEAMS

Based around the globe, the IRC emergency team comprises crisis professionals with experience working on every continent and responding to some of the world’s worst crises, delivering aid that saves lives while paving the way for long-term recovery.

The emergency team has expertise in a range of fields, including medicine, water and sanitation, child protection, counselling for women who have been raped or attacked, and logistics and economic recovery.

2011 EMERGENCY RESpONSES


TARGETED RESpONSE

In 2011 alone, we responded to crises as diverse as the drought and famine in East Africa, flooding in Thailand and Pakistan, and conflict in Ivory Coast and Libya.

Immediately following deployment, the IRC emergency response team carries out a needs assessment to determine what assistance is required. Such assistance can range from building wells and providing emergency health care, to helping people restart businesses by distributing seeds for the planting season.

FLOODING IN THAILAND

Beginning in July 2011, Thailand suffered its worst flooding in 50 years. This natural disaster has had a particularly severe impact on Burmese migrants and refugees living in Thailand, many of whom have been left homeless and jobless.

The IRC responded to this crisis by improving access to water and sanitation, health care and education for tens of thousands of Burmese, and pressing the government to provide them with food, shelter and basic services.

CHOLERA OUTbREAK IN CHAD

In September 2011, the IRC’s emergency response unit responded to a cholera outbreak in Chad, successfully reducing the number of deaths by two thirds within a week. Cholera, spread through water and food contaminated by human waste, is both a preventable and a treatable disease.

In addition to establishing a treatment centre for cholera victims, the IRC helped set up five health facilities in the crisis-affected city of Abeche. These clinics were aimed at preventing dehydration and the spread of infection, and resulted in a drastic reduction in cases of cholera within a matter of weeks.

18 EMERgENCY REsPONsEs 2011


In July 2011, António Guterres, head of UNHCR, classified the famine affecting Somalia and the Horn of Africa as the world’s “worst humanitarian crisis”; this came less than 10 years after the 1992 famine, which resulted in the death of 350,000 Somalis. In August 2011, the IRC’s emergency team began work for the first time in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, providing humanitarian aid in a city located in the middle of a famine zone and scarred by more than two decades of civil war.

The IRC responded to the needs of vulnerable residents in Mogadishu, as well as a sudden influx of over 100,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) fleeing famine in rural areas. Working in close partnership with the Ministry of Health in four different IDP camps across the city, the IRC helped to import and distribute essential drugs and medical equipment, provide hygiene and basic sanitation facilities, construct and staff new health posts, and build the capacity of local clinics to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable Somalis.

DROUGHT AND FAMINE IN MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

Top and BoTTom Patients wait to be treated at the IRC clinic at Koorsan Camp in Mogadishu.

rigHT During Somalia’s drought catastrophe in 2011, hundreds of thousands of animals died in rural areas. As well as building animal water points, the IRC established humanitarian aid programmes in the capital Mogadishu to respond to the needs of some 100,000 vulnerable people who fled from rural areas to the capital.

1991 yEAR THE sOmAlI CIVIl WAR bEgAn

350,000 sOmAlIs DIED DURIng 1992 fAmInE

100,000 sOmAlIs AssIsTED THROUgH IRC EmERgEnCy REspOnsE In mOgADIsHU In 2011

19


Disputed presidential elections in November 2010 caused months of civil unrest in Ivory Coast. Thousands of civilians were killed and a million displaced in the former French colony during a violent crisis triggered when former president Laurent Gbagbo refused to cede power to winning candidate Alassane Ouattara after the election. Nearly 160,000 people sought safety in neighbouring Liberia and an additional one million were displaced within Ivory Coast. The IRC responded to the crisis in both countries.

IRC medical teams treated patients from refugee and host communities in eastern Liberia, providing special assistance for the disabled and vulnerable women and children, and running educational programmes for refugee children and youth. In Ivory Coast, the IRC provided water, sanitation and shelter to thousands of displaced people, identifying and reuniting separated families and working within communities in volatile areas to ease tension and improve community relations. In both countries, the IRC has been working with local partners to offer medical care and counselling to survivors of sexual violence.

pOST-ELECTION VIOLENCE WEST AFRICA

Top Ivorian refugees in Liberia following election crisis in Ivory Coast.

BoTTom IRC emergency protection staff lead recreation activities for Ivorian refugee children at Zorgowee Transit Centre in Nimba County, Liberia.

rigHT Following post-election violence in Ivory Coast, thousands of refugees fled daily to neighbouring Liberia. IRC medical team members worked closely with Liberian health workers and community volunteers to treat patients and head off outbreaks of disease.

160,000 pEOplE flED TO lIbERIA TO EsCApE VIOlEnCE In IVORy COAsT

1 MILLION pEOplE InTERnAlly DIsplACED In IVORy COAsT pOsT ElECTIOn VIOlEnCE

1,200 DIsplACED pEOplE sCREEnED, TREATED AnD VACCInATED WEEkly by IRC mEDICAl TEAms AT TRAnsIT CEnTREs On THE bORDER bETWEEn lIbERIA AnD THE IVORy COAsT

20 DOMEstIC VIOLENCE


During conflict and its aftermath, if international attention turns to women at all, it focuses on violence by armed men. In a new study of post-conflict West Africa, the IRC has found that the most dangerous place for a woman is often in her own home.

In more than 15 years of providing services to women affected by violence, the IRC has seen enormous progress in the number and quality of programmes and services designed to keep women safe. These efforts have overwhelmingly focussed on the public side of violence – risks faced outside the home. The IRC’s new study, based on a decade of working with women in Liberia, Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone, has found that more than 60 per cent of women seeking assistance from the IRC in West Africa are survivors of violence committed by a husband or partner.

Violence in the home takes many forms. Physical assault is most often reported and can range from being pushed or punched, to rape, attack with weapons like machetes and even burnings. However, violence in the home also includes emotional and economic abuse. Men limit women’s access to food or deny them control of money needed to buy medicine for a sick child or to pay school fees. Domestic violence not only poses a risk to women’s lives and health, but critically undermines efforts to pull societies affected by conflict out of poverty.

The scale of domestic violence is not unique to West Africa. The IRC’s experience in the Democratic Republic of the Congo indicates high levels of violence in the home, while our recent emergency assessment of people displaced by fighting in the Nuba Mountains in South Sudan revealed that domestic violence was the most common form of violence experienced by women. Despite such evidence, the humanitarian community – donors, non-governmental organisations and UN agencies – has still not prioritised domestic violence as a humanitarian issue. This must change.

Since 1996, the IRC has provided assistance to women and girls affected by violence through innovative programmes in 20 countries around the world. With more than 300 field staff, the IRC not only provides care and treatment to survivors of violence, but also works to prevent further violence, and to stimulate long-term change by empowering women in their daily lives.

In 2011, the IRC counselled and cared for nearly16,000 survivors of sexual violence and educated and mobilised over 590,000 men, women and children to lead prevention efforts in their communities.

A HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY

BoTTom LeFT Christine Jacobs, 23, opened a drink shop after she graduated from an IRC business training course. “My husband drives a motorcycle taxi and now I also contribute to the family,” she says. “It feels good.”

BoTTom rigHT After her parents threw her out of their home, Laurina Tokpah, 24, became a beggar in the streets. Thanks to an IRC-sponsored business training course, she is now a successful businesswoman. “I sell everything from food and drinks to toothpaste,” she says.

oppoSiTe Annie Grant, 27, runs a stall in the Monrovia suburb of Pipeline. She is a beneficiary of an IRC programme that helped her to set up her stall and thereby establish economic independence for herself.

60%+Of WOmEn sURVIVORs Of sEXUAl VIOlEnCE sEEkIng AssIsTAnCE fROm THE IRC In WEsT AfRICA HAD sUffERED AT THE HAnDs Of THEIR pARTnER

16,000 sURVIVORs Of sEXUAl VIOlEnCE COUnsEllED AnD CARED fOR by THE IRC In 2011

20 nUmbER Of COUnTRIEs WHERE THE IRC OpERATEs WOmEn’s pROTECTIOn AnD EmpOWERmEnT pROgRAmmEs

21


“ImAkeeNOUGHmONeYNOWtOSeNDmYcHIlDreNtOScHOOl.”annie granT IRC programme beneficiary, Monrovia, Liberia

22

IN THE UK


23

THIS SECTION INCLUDES


24ADVOcAcYINtHeUkANDeUrOPe26fINANcIAlrePOrt28OUrSUPPOrterS DONOrSANDkeYPeOPle

24 ADVOCACY IN tHE UK AND EUROPE

RENEWING AID EFFORTS IN pAKISTANTo mark the anniversary of the devastating flooding in Pakistan, the IRC created a short film and photo exhibition to underline the continued need for shelter and support for thousands of families across the country. The film was launched at an event in UK Parliament to urge Parliamentarians and policymakers to take action to help people in the most severely affected areas recover and rebuild.

Through our advocacy efforts in london, brussels, geneva and further afield, we bring the concerns and needs of the communities we work with to the attention of European and international policymakers, donors and other influential actors. Using knowledge and expertise gathered from our teams on the ground we brief politicians and decision-makers, pressing them to take action to deliver change.

GETTING IT RIGHT IN SOUTH SUDANThe independence of South Sudan brought opportunities and challenges. While there are huge needs throughout the country, IRC-UK has particularly tried to raise the enormous threats facing women and girls. IRC-UK directly advised senior UK government ministers, and testified before a parliamentary committee on the urgent need to provide care and support to female survivors of rape and violence. Together with nearly 40 other aid agencies we also published “Getting It Right from the Start,” calling for humanitarian needs to be integrated into an overall strategy for development and investment in the world’s newest country.


25

HIGHLIGHTING THE pLIGHT OF URbAN REFUGEESHalf of all refugees now live in towns and cities rather than traditional camps, yet the international community is struggling to respond to their needs. Based on our innovative programmes and research carried out in partnership with the Overseas Development Institute, the IRC has been stimulating new thinking and debate on how the international community can help refugees in cities and urban slums.

HUMANITARIAN ACTION UNDER THREAT In many of the contexts in which we work, the increasing involvement of the military in the delivery of aid during humanitarian crises, and the blurring of the lines separating humanitarian and military actors, is putting both our staff and the people we serve at risk. As well as raising these concerns publicly and privately, we have worked to increase the UK military and NATO’s understanding of how and why humanitarian organisations like the IRC work on the ground.

SpEAKING Up FOR DRCAs one of the largest and most established humanitarian organisations working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the IRC presented evidence to a special parliamentary inquiry looking at how to meet the development needs of the country blighted by so many years of conflict. Working with our experts in the IRC Women’s Protection and Empowerment unit, we argued for the international community to step up its efforts to help women and girls affected by violence in the DRC. As a leading member of the Congo Now! coalition, the IRC also helped collect nearly 8,000 signatures on a petition urging the UK Government to prioritise actions that address violence against women and girls.

pROTECTING WOMEN AND GIRLSIRC-UK continues to raise the challenges faced by women and girls in all our work. In October we hosted a roundtable in Ditchley Park in Oxfordshire, bringing together specialist practitioners and policymakers to develop practical guidance for preventing and responding to violence against women and girls. We have also met with UK Secretary of State for International Development Andrew Mitchell, Minister for International Development Stephen O’Brien, and other senior officials to press the UK to live up to its commitments to addressing violence against women and girls.


FINANCIAL REPORt

FINANCIAL REpORT FOR THE YEARIn 2010/11 IRC-UK continued to expand its charitable activities, in particular in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Myanmar, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Kenya and Somalia, made possible by a 55 per cent increase in revenues.

The increase was due largely to growth in grant funding from the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office (DG ECHO) and the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). An emergency appeal in response to the East Africa drought also attracted donations from individuals, corporate partners and foundations to support operations in that region.

pRINCIpAL FUNDING SOURCESThe principal funding sources for the charity continued to be predominantly grants from institutions and trusts (restricted to specific programmes), and voluntary income, including individual donations and indirect cost recovery associated with statutory grants.

FINANCIAL pOSITIONAt 30 September 2011 the balance of free reserves of the charity stood at £921,000 (2010: £271,000). The trustees monitor the level of actual and projected reserves and believe these to be sufficient to meet the current level of risk.

Incoming resources are recognised on receipt, in accordance with the UK standards and statement of recommended practice from charitable activities “Accounting and Reporting by Charities” (SORP 2005), and unspent balances of donations and grants for specific programmes are held in restricted reserves. At the year end these reserves held £18.4 million advance funding for programmes that continue in 2012.

Net incoming resources for 2011 were £5.6m (£5.1m excluding an exchange rate gain). This represents income received in the year, but not spent. The £5.1m is represented by £4.3m restricted funds and £0.8m unrestricted funds.


Saving Lives 45% Rebuilding Communities 33% Protecting the Vulnerable 20% Cost of Generating Funds 0.7% Governance Costs 0.1% Support Costs 1.2%

EXPENDITUREFINANCIAL YEAR 2011 £’000s £62.7m

UK Department for International Development 41.1% Other European Government and Public Authorities 54.2% The IRC Inc. 3.2% Trusts, Foundations and Private 0.7% Donations and Fundraising 0.7% Investment Income 0.1%

INCOMEFINANCIAL YEAR 2011 £’000s £67.8m

2011 67,763

2010 43,889

2009 37,434

INCOME 2009 – 2011

£’000s

2011 62,660

2010 40,219

2009 35,721

EXPENDITURE 2009 – 2011

£’000s

26

saving lives: health (including psychosocial) and environmental health (water, sanitation and shelter) programmes.

rebuilding Communities: livelihoods (including agriculture), economic development, community development, civil society and education programmes.

protecting the Vulnerable: child protection, women’s protection and empowerment and protection and rule of law programmes.

support Costs: support costs include the costs of general administration and management (both staff and other costs) and have been allocated to the Cost of Generating Funds and Governance Costs on the basis of the proportion of dedicated staff time attributable to those categories.

Cost of generating funds: generation of voluntary income and costs of activities for generating funds. Generation of income from charitable activities.

governance costs: audit and accountancy fees.

PRINCIPAL FUNDINg sOURCEs


All of the charity’s activities derived from continuing operations during the above two financial periods.

The charity has no recognised gains and losses other than those shown above and therefore no separate statement of total recognised gains and losses has been presented.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIESYear to 30 September 2011

inCome and expendiTUre

Unrestricted

funds£’000

Restricted

funds£’000

Total 2011

funds£’000

Total 2010 funds£’000

incoming resourcesIncoming resources from generated funds– Voluntary income 217 243 460 406

– Activities for generating funds – – – 12

– Investment income 33 – 33 14Incoming resources from charitable activities 1,818 65,452 67,270 43,457

Total incoming resources 2,068 65,695 67,763 43,889

resources expendedCost of generating funds 447 – 447 294

Charitable activities– Saving lives 350 28,221 28,571 21,075– Protecting the Vulnerable 158 12,820 12,978 8,701

– Rebuilding Communities 252 20,344 20,596 10,063

– Other (6) (524) (530) 34

Total charitable activities 754 60,861 61,615 39,873Governance costs 68 – 68 52

Total resources expended 1,269 60,861 62,130 40,219net incoming resources for the year 799 4,834 5,633 3,670Balances brought forward at 1 october 2010 343 13,565 13,908 10,238Balances carried forward at 30 september 2011 1,142 18,399 19,541 13,908

bALANCE SHEETSYear to 30 September 2011group and charity

2011 £’000

2011 £’000

2010 £’000

2010 £’000

fixed assets

Tangible assets 41 72

Current assets

Debtors 11,425 6,390

Cash at bank and in hand 15,785 12,113

27,210 18,503

Creditors: amounts falling due within one year (7,710) (4,667)

net current assets 19,500 13,836

Total net assets 19,541 13,908

represented by: funds and reserves

Income funds:

Restricted funds 18,399 13,565

Unrestricted funds

– Designated funds 180 –

– General fund 962 343

19,541 13,908

27


OUR sUPPORtERs DONORs AND KEY PEOPLE

TRUSTS, FOUNDATIONS AND CORpORATIONS

Barclays WealthBig Lottery Fund (BLF)Bloomberg LPClifford Chance FoundationThe Estelle TrustGoldman Sachs GivesJigsaw Research LtdThe Bryan Guinness Charitable TrustMcKinsey & CompanyMegan Van’t Hoff Charitable TrustMonteverde Charitable TrustOak FoundationRadley YeldarStichting Vluchteling (SV)The Sir James Reckitt CharityThe Reed FoundationUBS Optimus Foundation

STATUTORY DONORS

Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA)UK Department for International Development (DFID)European Commission Directorate-General Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (DG ECHO)European Commission Development and Cooperation (EuropeAid)Ireland – Development Cooperation Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs (IrishAid)Jersey Overseas Aid Commission (JOAC)Scottish Government International Development FundSwiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)

INDIVIDUALS

The Duke of Bedford Sir David and Lady BellGeorge and Leslie BiddleLord and Lady BlakenhamGlenda BurkhartHenrietta CareyJeremy P Carver CBEDr Robert M CleverleyGillian duCharmeJohn Curran and Kristen FredericksonDulwich CollegeCatherine EardleySuzanne Ferlic JohnsonSimon FletcherBeccy GoodhartSir Jeremy Greenstock GCMGKenneth and Lilian IbbettLady KennyJohn and Jane LebusJonathan Lloyd

Bartlomiej LubaszkaWilliam MackeseyCarolyn MakinsonJohn Makinson CBEFX de MallmannSol MiahSir Mark and Lady Moody-StuartKathleen O’DonovanCate Olson and Nash RobbinsWendy PrestonSaba QureshiDanielle Rodney RobinsonDame Marjorie ScardinoDouglas SchwalbeRichard SharpJonathan and Lucy SilverDavid and Dee Dee SimpsonMichael SpiesJake and Sandra UlrichTerry WalkerWilliam WatsonMalcolm WebbSam Wisnia

OUR pEOpLE IRC-UK bOARD

Jeremy P Carver CBE, co-chairKathleen O’Donovan, co-chairGeorge BiddleMary Blewitt OBEGlenda BurkhartGillian duCharmeSir Jeremy Greenstock GCMGSir John Holmes GCVO, KBE, CMGFX de MallmannLady Malloch-BrownRichard SharpDiane G Simpson

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Carolyn Makinson

SENIOR STAFF

Jane Ellis, Director of International ProgrammesRachel Hewitt, Director of FinanceStefanie Pfeil, Director of DevelopmentSelena Victor, Director of Advocacy and PolicyClea Kahn, Acting Head of Advocacy and Policy

INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE bELGIUM

Nathalie Stiennon, DirectorBoard of Directors:Laurent AlpertJeremy P Carver CBELiv UllmannJonathan L Wiesner

INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE GENEVA

George Brown, Surge Project Director

WOMEN’S REFUGEE COMMISSION

Sarah Costa, Executive DirectorRobin Fray Carey and Jocelyn Cunningham, Co-Chairs, Board of Directors

INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE

George Rupp,President and Chief Executive OfficerGeorge Biddle,Executive Vice PresidentSarah O’Hagan and Thomas Schick,Co-Chairs, Board of DirectorsGlenda K Burkhart and Scott Pelley,Co-Chairs, Overseers

bOARD OF DIRECTORS

Morton I AbramowitzLaurent AlpertCliff S AsnesChristoph BeckerMary BoiesAndrew H BrimmerGlenda BurkhartTrinh DoanKenneth R FrenchMichael J GersonGeorge F HritzAly S JeddM Farooq KathwariDavid LevineRobert E MarksJami MiscikKathleen O’DonovanScott PelleyAndrew RobertsonGideon RoseGeorge RuppOmar SaeedScott T ScheirmanGordon SmithSally SusmanMichael VanRooyen, MDJosh S WestonWilliam T WintersTracy R Wolstencroft

IRC-UK expresses its gratitude to our supporters who help us restore dignity and hope to those whose lives are profoundly changed by war, violent conflict, oppression and natural disaster.

The commitment of individuals, foundations, corporations, volunteers, governments, non-governmental organisations and multilateral agencies enables IRC-UK to respond swiftly in emergencies and help communities to recover. On this page we salute the generous donors who supported IRC-UK during the past fiscal year, which began 1 October 2010 and ended 30 September 2011.

28

Federal Department of Foreign Affairs – FDFA Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation SDC

HOW YOU CAN HELPSUPPORT IRC–UK

REpORT CREdITSPublications Director anD eDitor:StevenManninguK eDitor: DominiqueTuohyDePutY eDitor: Peterbirocontributors: NedColt,SophiaJones-Mwangi,ClaraThompsoncoPY eDitor:RexRobertseDitorial Director: Edwardbligh

phOTO CREdITSAll photos by Peter Biro except: p5 top right: Edward Macharia; p10–11: The IrC; p14–15: Paolo Cernuschi; libya: rEuTErS p17: far right: Sophia Jones-Mwangi p19: bottom left: rebecca Balis; p24: Haddon Davies; middle: Elizabeth Pender p25: Marion Dols; second:Sinziana Demian; bottom: Chris de Bode/SV

DesignedbyRadleyYeldar:ry.com

PrintedbyParkCommunications.

ParkisanEMAS-certifiedCarbonNeutral®companyanditsEnvironmentalManagementSystemiscertifiedtoISO14001.

100%oftheinksusedarevegetable-oilbased,95%ofpresschemicalsarerecycledforfurtheruseandonaverage99%ofanywasteassociatedwiththisproductionwillberecycled.

ThisdocumentisprintedonCyclus,apapercontaining100%post-consumerrecycledfibre.

AdvOCATEJointheIRC’sonlineglobalfamilyatrescue-uk.orgtoreceiveimportantadvocacyalertsandnewsaboutthehumanitarianissuesthatareimportanttoyou.

Facebook.com/ircuk/

Pinterest.com/ircuk/

AdvOCATEJointheIRC’sonlineglobalfamilyatrescue-uk.orgtoreceiveimportantadvocacyalertsandnewsaboutthehumanitarianissuesthatareimportanttoyou.

dONATEGiveonlineatrescue-uk.org/donate

Telephone:02076920405

Orsendyourdonationto:InternationalRescueCommitteeUK,11GowerStreet,LondonWC1E6Hb

jOIN ThE CONvERSATION

@IRCukforallourupdates@ IRCukNewsparticularlyfor

updatesfromourmediateaminLondonandemergencyresponseteamsinthefield.

GET INvOLvEd vOLUNTEER dONATE

LONdONInternationalRescueCommitteeUK11GowerStreetLondonWC1E6HbUnitedKingdom

NEw YORKInternationalRescueCommittee122East42ndStreetNewYork,NY10168-1289USA

wAShINGTON, d.C.InternationalRescueCommittee1730MStreet,NW,Suite505Washington,DC20036USA

BRUSSELSInternationalRescueCommitteebelgiumPlacedelaVieilleHalleauxblés16OudKorenhuis161000brusselsbelgium

GENEvAInternationalRescueCommittee7,RueJ-AGautierCH-1201GenevaSwitzerland

BANGKOKInternationalRescueCommittee888/210–212MahatunPlazabldg.2ndFPloenchitRoadLumpini,Pathumwanbangkok10330Thailand

NAIROBIInternationalRescueCommitteeIKMPlace5thNgongAvenueUpperHillNairobiKenya

rescue-uk.org+44 (0)20 7692 2727

fROM hARM TO hOME RESCUE-UK.ORG

international rescue committee uk · colombia kyrgyzstan nepal ecuador angola chile ... the...

Documents