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International RESCUE COMMITTEE ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Rescue.org HELPING PEOPLE TO SURVIVE, RECOVER AND RECLAIM CONTROL OF THEIR FUTURE Front cover: Thousands of refugees arrive daily on the Greek island of Lesbos after a perilous journey across the Aegean Sea from Turkey. Inside cover: IRC aid worker Stella Giaga greets a Syrian refugee at the Pikpa camp on Lesbos. The IRC helps provide newly arrived refugees with food, dry clothing, registration information and emergency services. Recurring violence in Nigeria and Mali has caused tens of thousands to flee to neighboring Niger, while more than 2.2 million people have been displaced inside Nigeria. The IRC provides THE IRC IN 2015 emergency assistance to all three countries. Responding to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helping people to survive, recover and reclaim control of their future More than 60 million people worldwide have been displaced from their homes, the largest upheaval of humanity since World War II. Twelve million are from Syria alone, but conflict, persecution and natural disaster have impacted South Sudan, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan as well. The IRC and its partner organizations have responded by rapidly delivering vital lifesaving aid to these crisis areas. In 2015, 23 million people in more than 40 countries and 26 U.S. cities benefited from IRC programs that help restore health, safety, education and economic well-being to those devastated by conflict and disaster. Syrian refugee children enjoying activities at an IRC educational HOW YOU CAN center in northern Lebanon. SUPPORT THE IRC Advocate Raise Money Photo Credits Join the IRC’s online global family at Start your own fundraising campaign to Front cover and inside cover: Tara Todras- Rescue.org to receive important advocacy support the IRC and make a difference. Whitehill; inside front cover (map): Peter alerts and news about the humanitarian For information, visit the DIY fundraising Biro except center right: Ned Colt; p.2: issues that are important to you. site at: diy.rescue.org Peter Biro; p.4: Timea Fauszt; p.6 left: Alaa Khanji, center: Andrea Falcon; p.8: Tara Donate Volunteer Todras-Whitehill, p.9 top: Tara Todras- Give online by visiting our website at The IRC relies on volunteers to support Whitehill, bottom: Cathe Neukum; p.10 Rescue.org. Make a tax-deductible its work helping refugees adjust to a top left and bottom right: Peter Biro; p.11: contribution by mail to: new life in the United States. 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For more information, @InternationalRescueCommittee Editors: Steven Manning, Dominique Tuohy please contact: [email protected] @theIRC Design: www.wearereddog.com Print: Digital Color Concepts A vicious struggle between government and opposition forces Nearly 215,000 people fled political violence in Burundi in Future Gifts Refugees and internally in South Sudan has resulted in widespread atrocities and 2015, most to Tanzania, swelling the Nyarugusu refugee camp Ensure that displaced people make This document is printed on Finch Fine, displaced people by region. which is made using 10% post-consumer forced more that than 2.2 million people to flee their homes. In into the third largest in the world. The IRC provides health and their way from harm to home in the waste and produced using 66% on-site neighboring Central African Republic, 1 million people have been education services in the camp and works to reunite separated IRC Programs future through a bequest to the IRC. sustainable energy sources. displaced by ongoing sectarian conflict. The IRC is one of South children with their families. The IRC also aids refugees from Contact [email protected] IRC Partnerships Sudan’s largest aid providers and has assisted CAR throughout its Somalia living in the world’s largest camp, Dadaab, in northern current crisis despite the high risk to aid workers. In both countries, Kenya, home to 330,000 people, while providing emergency for information or to indicate that you Surge Protection Project the IRC provides medical care, water and sanitation services, and relief to those displaced by drought and conflict inside Somalia. have already included the IRC in your protection for vulnerable women and girls. estate plans. As of Jan.1, 2016 IRC Programs Region West Africa, Sahel, CAR, & Haiti DRC Horn, East Africa, & Zimbabwe Asia, Caucasus, & Middle East Syria Regional Response The war in Syria has displaced nearly 12 million people, 4 million of whom have fled to neighboring countries and nearly 1 million to Europe. The IRC is the only international aid organization acting on all fronts of the crisis: assisting the displaced inside Syria, those who have fled, and refugees resettling in the U.S. The 2.6 million refugees who have been living outside Afghanistan for over three decades constitute the world’s longest ongoing refugee situation. The IRC has aided this diaspora since 1980 while working to restore that country’s health, infrastructure and economy. In neighboring Pakistan, where 1.5 million people have been displaced by ethnic and religious conflict, the IRC is providing health care, education and livelihoods services. For more than three decades, refugees from Myanmar have sought safe haven in neighboring Thailand. The IRC is aiding nearly 140,000 refugees in nine camps along the border, providing food and water, health care and sanitation, protection for children and women, and legal assistance and resettlement processing. In Myanmar, we are working in some of the most remote areas to provide health care, water and and sanitation services, livelihoods training, and support for community development projects. IRC Programs Region West Africa, Sahel, CAR, & Haiti DRC Horn, East Africa, & Zimbabwe Asia, Caucasus, & Middle East Syria Regional Response CONTENTS Message from the President and 3 Chairs of the IRC Board and Overseers Millions on the Move: Responding to the World’s 4 Worst Displacement Crisis IRC Annual Report 2015 Our Supporters 15 Board of Directors and Staff Leadership 23 Financial Report 24 How You Can Help 25 A Burundian refugee in the Nyarugusu camp in Tanzania. The camp, which opened in 1966 to house uprooted Congolese, is now the third largest in the world. The IRC provides emergency aid and other services in the camp. 2 In 2015, 23 million people benefited from IRC programs IRC Annual Report 2015 David Miliband Katherine Farley Tracy Wolstencroft Timothy F. Geithner and those of its partner President and CEO Co-Chair, Co-Chair, Chair, organizations IRC Board of Directors IRC Board of Directors IRC Overseers MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT AND CHAIRS OF THE IRC BOARD AND OVERSEERS Dear Friends, world requires not just more aid, but As they step down as co-chairs of our Not since the Second World War have so better aid. Better aid that is based on board, we would like to thank Thomas many people been on the move. And not for evidence and maximizes impact. Better Schick and Sarah O’Hagan for their many years has the IRC been so needed. aid that provides economic support, not leadership and dedication over the past We are honored to present the IRC’s annual just social services. Better aid that unites six years. Their expert stewardship report for 2015, a year in which our tireless refugees and host populations rather than has enabled the IRC to grow and staff members and volunteers rose to the dividing them, that offers the ways and carry out its humanitarian mission at many challenges of a world where more means to recovery and renewal and not just a time of momentous challenge. With than 60 million people have been displaced a safety blanket. their enthusiastic encouragement, by conflict and war. the organization has developed a Nowhere are these demands more urgent comprehensive strategy that will guide Last year, as the bitter conflict in Syria raged than in the Middle East and Europe. With the IRC’s work over the next five years. on, more than 2,000 families fled their homes 12 million people displaced by war and every day, and over 1 million people braved 13.5 million others in need of immediate Strong governance and careful shepherding treacherous seas to seek safety in Europe. humanitarian assistance, Syria is clearly of your generous contributions are primary Meanwhile, in Nigeria, 25 million people are the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe. reasons that the IRC wins top marks from living under the daily threat of terrorist attack How we respond to this crisis will define our charity evaluators: A+ from CharityWatch; and over 2 million have been forced from their generation in history. “meets all 20 standards” from the Better homes. Three years into a largely forgotten Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance; and, crisis, sectarian conflict in the Central African We are proud that the IRC has been for the ninth consecutive year, four stars Republic has displaced 1 million people. aiding Syrians since the onset of the from Charity Navigator. crisis in 2012. To date, we have reached Thanks to your vital support, the IRC is more than 3.3 million people with Speaking on behalf of our Board, on the frontlines of each one of these lifesaving services.