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Iraqi Red Crescent Society COVID-19 preparedness profile (as of May 5, 2020) Other programming19, 20, 6, 21, 22, 23 Risk & Hazards Population:7 29,741,976

INFORM COVID-19 Risk Index1 Population over 65:7 3% People reached

7 Hazard & Lack coping Income level: Upper middle income Program: Active: Direct: Indirect: Vulnerability Risk class Exposure capacity Urban (percentage):7 69% 4.2 3.1 4.7 Medium Epidemic/Pandemic: No - - INFORM COVID-19 risk rank: 64 of 191 countries IFRC Operations (last 5 years) CBS: No - - DREF & Appeals11 Highlighted INFORM COVID-19 sub-components Health (all program): No - -

Socio-Economic Vulnerability: 4.4 Epidemics Non-Epidemics Total WASH: No - - Count 0 3 3 Food Security: 6.8 CHF 0 2,481,353 2,481,353 DRR: Yes - - All IFRC supported responses (last 5 yrs): Gender Based Violence (GBV): 6.8 Social Inclusion: No - - Civil Unrest (2019), Earthquake (2017), Population Movement (international & national): 1.2 Movement (2016) Long-term No - - Behaviour (awareness & trust)): 5.0 programmes: Iraqi Red Crescent Society First Aid: No (0 volunteers trained) Governance (effectiveness & corruption): 7.8 13, 9, 6 Access to healthcare: 6.1 Mandate and resources National Society capacity strenghtening 24 NS Auxiliary role recognized: - and development processes Health context IDRL Law/Mechanism: - Cash preparedness - Self assessment 4. Global Health Security Index:2 167 out of 195 Implementation (2019), Logistics - Logistics Branches and warehouses: - Development Implementation (2016), Logistics - Global Health Security preparedness levels: Staff (% accidental insurance): 2,077 (0%) Logistics Development Plan of Action (2016), Logistics - Logistics Development Assessment (2016) Preventing pathogens: Least prepared Volunteers (% a. insurance): 5,800 (0%)

Early detection/reporting of epidemics: More prepared Youth (6-29 yrs) (% volunteers): - (-%) About: Country profiles Responding & mitigating spread: Least prepared 14 Continuity of care (MHPSS: The purpose of this document is to help outline National Society risk as well No known support for Staff. PSS support for Volunteers. Treat the sick & protect health workers: Least prepared as capacities for preparedness, containment, and mitigation of COVID-19. This document pulls existing IFRC and public information to inform about 15, 16 Commitments (HR, funding & norms): Least prepared Medical services country-level risk and hazards, health context, Movement representation, Pre-hospital care: Yes National Society programs and services, and coordination mechanisms. Risk/vulnerability to biological threats: Most at risk INFORM and GHSI methodology and details on how to read the Health Centre(s): - ReadyScore:3 46 out of 100 severity scales are available in the link below, in the links in the data source section. Hospital(s): - For more information on National Society capacity strengthening and GHS process engagement4, 5 development processes, please contact: Higher Education: - • National Society Development (NSD) for Organisational Capacity Joint External Evaluation (JEE): Completed Assessment and Certification (OCAC) and Branch Organizational Programmes Capacity Assessment (BOCA) National Action Plan for Health Security: Completed • Disaster and Crisis Prevention, Response and Recovery (DCPRR) for National Society Preparedness for Effective Response (PER) Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA): No Community-based Health & First Aid and cash preparedness 17 (CBHFA) • Logistics team for Logistics assessments Healthcare system capacity (per 1,000 population)8, 7 Is CBHFA active: Data Sources Yes 1.4 Hospital bed(s) (2020) 1 INFORM COVID-19 Risk Index (v0.1.2) 6 CBHFA activities: 2 Global Health Security Index (GHSI) (2019) 1 Physician(s) (2017) 3 Prevent Epidemics ReadyScore (2019) Development / Peacetime Context, Emergency, Schools, 4 WHO Strategic Partnership for International Health Regulations (2005) Recovery, Migrant centers, Other and Health Security (2020) 2 Nurse(s) and midwi(ves) (2017) 5 Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) (2020) 4 Health topics taught: 6 IFRC Federation-wide databank and reporting system (2018) 7 World Bank Open Data 0 Community healthcare worker(s) (2004) Non-Communicable Disease (NCD), Communicable 8 Imperial College London (ICL) and London School of Hygiene & Disease Prevention, Behaviour Change, First Aid Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) 9 IFRC Disaster Law Database (IDRL) (2020) RCRC Movement Presence 10 IFRC National Society Directory (2018) Community Engagement & Accountability 11 IFRC Go (2020) IFRC Region:9, 10 MENA 18 12 International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (2020) (CEA) 13 IFRC COVID-19 Government Actions (2020) 9, 10 14 IFRC MHPSS: Survey (2019) IFRC CCST: - 15 Global Advisory Panel on Corporate Governance and Risk HR Capacity: Management of Blood Services in Red Cross and Red Crescent IFRC Country Office:9, 10 Societies. Global Mapping - Red Cross / Red Crescent National - Society involvement in country blood programs, 2018. 16 Business Continunity Planning/Medical capacity mapping (2020) IFRC Status agreement:9, 10 - Structure: 17 IFRC CBHFA: Survey (2019) - 18 IFRC Community Engagement & Accountability: Map (2019) 9, 10 19 IFRC Community Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness Program IFRC Bank account: - 20 IFRC Community-based Surveillance (2020) No Programs: 21 IFRC Global Safe Water Initiative (GWSI) Portal (2018) Corresponding language:9, 10 Arabic / English - 22 IFRC Disaster Risk Reduction: Global mapping (2018) 23 IFRC Social Inclusion capacity mapping (2019) 24 IFRC National Society Development (2019) ICRC Presence:12 Yes Mental Health and Psychosocial Support 14 (MHPSS) Found incomplete, incorrect, or out of date information?Ideas on how to improve? Please share Number of volunteers trained in: your feedback. Partner National Societies (financial support):6 Basic Psychosocial support (PSS): 100 , Danish Red Cross, Norwegian Psychological First Aid (PFA): 150 Red Cross, , , Number of highly skilled volunteers: , Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Social Workers (0), Psychologist (0), Psychiatrist (0), Republic of Iran, Society, Algerian Community Healthcare Workers (CHWs) (0) Red Crescent, Malaysian Red Crescent Society, , Jordan National Red Crescent 4 current Psychosocial (PSS) activities: Society, Egyptian Red Crescent Society, Red Crescent Child friendly spaces, Recreational activities, Society of the United Arab Emirates, , Psychological first aid, Volunteer support , The Society, 1 current Mental Health (MH) activities: Japanese Red Cross Society, Singapore Red Cross Psychological support home visit Society, , , Spanish Red Cross, 7 MHPSS target populations: Adolescents, Children, Older persons, Indigenous persons, Internally displaced persons, Migrants, People Demography affected by war and armed conflict