The Republic of Korea National Red Cross COVID-19 Preparedness Proﬁle (As of May 5, 2020)

The Republic of Korea National Red Cross COVID-19 preparedness proﬁle (as of May 5, 2020)

Risk & Hazards IFRC Operations (last 5 years) People reached

INFORM COVID-19 Risk Index1 DREF & Appeals11 Program: Active: Direct: Indirect:

Hazard & Lack coping Epidemics Non-Epidemics Total Epidemic/Pandemic: No - - Vulnerability Risk class Exposure capacity Count 0 0 0 CBS: No - - 3.9 7.1 0.3 Low CHF 0 0 0 INFORM COVID-19 risk rank: 167 of 191 countries Health (all program): Yes 4,007,843 - All IFRC supported responses (last 5 yrs): - WASH: Yes 138,936 - Highlighted INFORM COVID-19 sub-components

Socio-Economic Vulnerability: 0.4 DRR: Yes 133,235 - The Republic of Korea National Red Cross Food Security: 1.0 Social Inclusion: Yes 31,902 - Mandate and resources13, 9, 6 Gender Based Violence (GBV): 2.2 Long-term Yes 687,686 - NS Auxiliary role recognized: No programmes: Movement (international & national): 7.6 IDRL Law/Mechanism: - First Aid: Yes (93,353 volunteers trained) Behaviour (awareness & trust)): 4.7 Branches and warehouses: 93 National Society capacity strenghtening Governance (effectiveness & corruption): 3.4 24 Staff (% accidental insurance): 3,736 (100%) and development processes Access to healthcare: 0.8 Volunteers (% a. insurance): 120,123 (98%) - Health context Youth (6-29 yrs) (% volunteers): 24,323 (20%) About: Country profiles Global Health Security Index:2 9 out of 195 Continuity of care (MHPSS:14 Unknown support for Staff. Unknown support for The purpose of this document is to help outline National Society risk as well Global Health Security preparedness levels: Volunteers. as capacities for preparedness, containment, and mitigation of COVID-19. Preventing pathogens: More prepared This document pulls existing IFRC and public information to inform about country-level risk and hazards, health context, Movement representation, 15, 16 Early detection/reporting of epidemics: Most prepared Medical services National Society programs and services, and coordination mechanisms. Pre-hospital care: Yes INFORM and GHSI methodology and details on how to read the Responding & mitigating spread: Most prepared severity scales are available in the link below, in the links in the data Health Centre(s): - Treat the sick & protect health workers: More prepared source section. For more information on National Society capacity strengthening and Hospital(s): Yes Commitments (HR, funding & norms): More prepared development processes, please contact: • National Society Development (NSD) for Organisational Capacity Higher Education: - Assessment and Certification (OCAC) and Branch Organizational Risk/vulnerability to biological threats: Least at risk Capacity Assessment (BOCA) ReadyScore:3 92 out of 100 • Disaster and Crisis Prevention, Response and Recovery (DCPRR) Programmes for National Society Preparedness for Effective Response (PER) and cash preparedness GHS process engagement4, 5 Community-based Health & First Aid • Logistics team for Logistics assessments Joint External Evaluation (JEE): Completed 17 (CBHFA) Data Sources National Action Plan for Health Security: - Is CBHFA active: 1 INFORM COVID-19 Risk Index (v0.1.2) Unknown 2 Global Health Security Index (GHSI) (2019) Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA): Yes 3 Prevent Epidemics ReadyScore (2019) 4 WHO Strategic Partnership for International Health Regulations (2005) 8, 7 and Health Security (2020) Healthcare system capacity (per 1,000 population) No CBHFA activities: 5 Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) (2020) - 6 IFRC Federation-wide databank and reporting system (2018) - Hospital bed(s) (2020) 7 World Bank Open Data 8 Imperial College London (ICL) and London School of Hygiene & No Health topics taught: Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) 2 Physician(s) (2017) 9 IFRC Disaster Law Database (IDRL) (2020) - 10 IFRC National Society Directory (2018) 7 Nurse(s) and midwi(ves) (2017) 11 IFRC Go (2020) 12 International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (2020) 13 IFRC COVID-19 Government Actions (2020) 0 Community healthcare worker(s) (2009) Community Engagement & Accountability 18 14 IFRC MHPSS: Survey (2019) (CEA) 15 Global Advisory Panel on Corporate Governance and Risk Management of Blood Services in Red Cross and Red Crescent RCRC Movement Presence Societies. Global Mapping - Red Cross / Red Crescent National HR Capacity: Society involvement in country blood programs, 2018. 9, 10 16 Business Continunity Planning/Medical capacity mapping (2020) IFRC Region: Asia Pacific - 17 IFRC CBHFA: Survey (2019) 18 IFRC Community Engagement & Accountability: Map (2019) IFRC CCST:9, 10 Beijing 19 IFRC Community Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness Program Structure: 20 IFRC Community-based Surveillance (2020) 9, 10 21 IFRC Global Safe Water Initiative (GWSI) Portal (2018) IFRC Country Office: - - 22 IFRC Disaster Risk Reduction: Global mapping (2018) 23 IFRC Social Inclusion capacity mapping (2019) 9, 10 24 IFRC National Society Development (2019) IFRC Status agreement: - No Programs: - IFRC Bank account:9, 10 No Found incomplete, incorrect, or out of date information?Ideas on how to improve? Please share 9, 10 Corresponding language: English Mental Health and Psychosocial Support your feedback. (MHPSS)14 ICRC Presence:12 Yes

Number of volunteers trained in: Basic Psychosocial support (PSS): - Partner National Societies (ﬁnancial support):6 Psychological First Aid (PFA): - Guatemalan Red Cross, Lao Red Cross, Japanese Red Cross Society, Indonesian Red Cross Society, Philippine Number of highly skilled volunteers: Red Cross, American Red Cross, Nepal Red Cross Social Workers (-), Psychologist (-), Psychiatrist (-), Society, Indian Red Cross Society, Timor-Leste Red Community Healthcare Workers (CHWs) (-) Cross Society, Mongolian Red Cross Society, Afghan Red Crescent, Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, Fiji Unknown current Psychosocial (PSS) activities: Red Cross Society, Vietnam Red Cross Society, Red - Cross Society of China, Myanmar Red Cross Society Unknown current Mental Health (MH) activities: Demography - Population:7 51,635,256 Unknown MHPSS target populations: Population over 65:7 14% -

7 Income level: High income Other programming19, 20, 6, 21, 22, 23 Urban (percentage):7 81%