2018-19 Annual Report

2018-19 ANNUAL REPORT KG 15 Ave PO Box: 425 Follow Rwanda Red Cross on Kigali, Rwanda Social Media #RwandaHumanity rrcs@ rwandaredcross.org www.rwandaredcross.org Contents Abbreviations and Acronyms Opening message from the leadership 1. Rwanda Red Cross Capacity Development ....... 5 2. Communication and Humanitarian Diplomacy ..... 11 3. Model village & community resilience .................. 15 4. Health and disaster Emergency Management ........ 21 5. Public awareness for health promotion and care .. 32 6. Social protection of specific vulnerable groups ..... 35 7. Work with partners ............................................... 40 8. Financial figures .................................................... 43 2018–2019 ANNUAL REPORT © Rwanda Red Cross 2019 Lay out & Graphic Design UWAMUNGU Thierry www.uwamungu.com 2 Opening Message Dr BWITO Paul KARAMAGA Apollinaire President SG The Financial Year 2018 - 19 has come to an end! Throughout the year and with the support of so many local and international partners, Rwanda Red Cross Society has remained fully engaged in humanitarian support activities alongside the government of Rwanda and its partners. Among others, we always have been involved in health promotion activities, hygiene and sanitation promotion, providing educational support to children from vulnerable families as well as being at forefront during emergency operations. Also, we are strongly involved in the provision of proper shelter to the most vulnerable communities and disaster affected populations especially through provision of construction materials. Rwanda Red Cross together with its different partners has been implementing different projects aimed at building community resilience by escalating the fight against poverty and by so doing strengthening disaster risk reduction. We are very interested in building community resilience, for through experience, we are convinced that resilient communities minimize the extent to which disasters disrupt the every day people’s life and destroy the socioeconomic fabrics. Resilient communities are not only prepared to help prevent or minimize the loss and damage to life, property, and the environment, their citizens are also able to quickly return to work after a disaster has hit, reopen businesses, and restore other essential services needed for a full and timely economic recovery. Our approach to building community resilience is threefold; individually by implementing actions targeting households; community-based through activities that empower targeted communities to collectively respond to existing challenges; and institutionally through actions aimed at capacity building for the Rwanda Red Cross Society particularly of local committees and local government authorities. We use model villages as an integrated way of supporting communities address their existing challenges. Though funding is still insufficient compared to people’s needs, however, the tireless of volunteers across the country is very commendable and requires that more resources are mobilised, to help them reach further. Considering the impact that this approach has had in the communities where it is being implemented, I would like to take this opportunity to advocate for the extension of this programme to cover more villages. Thanks to continuous discussions with our partners, they have now come to realise that three years projects can not reach sustainable changes among the vulnerable people’s living conditions. We have seen now five years projects and we expect that the trend will continue. RRCS is still present on the side of the Burundian refugees in Mahama and four receptions centres. With the increasing humanitarian challenges hitting Rwanda and our region in general, it is more imperative to continue strengthening our institutional capacity to respond quickly and effectively to disasters and other humanitarian needs in our community, as we also extend our partnership with different organisations. RRCS is proud to have launched the Emergency medical service, now in operating in Nyamata and Kibirizi district hospitals in the pilot phase. Thanks for ICRC, IFRC, Belgium RC, Austrian RC, Danish RC and Spanish RC for the funds made available in order to respond to this emergency. Aw well, we have over the years made efforts to strengthen our domestic income generating activities in line with building the National Society’s financial capacity. In this spirit, RRCS has created its independent company to manage income generating activities, in the name of RIS Ltd. We have developed a comprehensive master plan of additional facilities that can further reinforce this and empower us more to address the needs of the most vulnerable, and we are still looking for funding opportunities to realise the project. We will also continue to increase our experience in domestic fundraising by appealing to Rwandese who are willing to support our activities, though Friends of Red Cross initiative and mass collection initiative We have received support in the past from among other the IFRC, ICRC, and several PNS in this area. On behalf of Rwanda Red Cross, we would like to extend our heartfelt appreciation to all the partners who have remained on our side, both from within and out of the Red Cross Movement. We also take this occasion to thank the Government of Rwanda for its continuous support. Rwanda Red Cross Leadership. 3 Abbreviations and Acronyms BDRT Branch Disaster Response Team BTS Back to Sender CBEHPP Community Based Environmental and Health Promotion Programme CBHFA Community Based Health and First Aid DM Disaster management DRR Disaster Risk Reduction DS Direct Support HHs Households HIV/AIDS Human Immune deficiency Virus / Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome HMP Historically Marginalized People HQ Headquarters ICRC International Committee of Red Cross IFRC International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies IGA Income Generating Activities IHL International Humanitarian Law JADF Joint Action Development Forum LDRT Local Disaster Response Team MV Model Village NFI Non-food Items NDRT National Disaster Response Team NS National Society OD Organizational Development OVC Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children PHAST Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation PLWA Persons living with HIV – AIDS PMER Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting PNS Participating National Societies PW Public Work RC/RC Red Cross/Red Crescent RCM Red Cross Message RDRT Regional Disaster Response Team RFL Restoring Family Links RRCS Rwanda Red Cross Society SACCO Saving and Credit Cooperatives TR Tracing Requests 4 Rwanda Red Cross Capacity 1 Development The Organizational Development and Capacity Building is an important function in the National Society. It aims at strengthening organizational and institutional capacity of the NS both at Headquarters and at branch committees levels, in order to deliver effective and efficient community oriented services. The presence of RRCS committees at National, district, sector and cell levels as well as many volunteers, allow the NS to implement community-based activities and respond to various situations of emergency. The National Headquarters based programmes’ role is to support those structures to be efficient and always at best level of service delivery, through provision of working means, proper guidance and monitoring, training as well as constant linkages and mobilization of resources. The main achievements in the reporting period focused on the following keys areas: – Mobilization and recruitment of new RRC reaching all the 416 administrative sectors and further members and Distributing membership cards decentralise the structures to cell level and beyond to the – Planning and implementation of Districts grassroots. The achievements means that 2 new sector performance contracts; committee were established and 549 cell committees – Follow up construction of the District committee’s were established. offices and others building activities; Mobilization and recruitment of new RRC members – Organisation of statutory, Coordination and partnership meetings; This is continuous activity comprising mobilization, – Monitoring and evaluation in the branches; recruitment, registration and issuing membership – Initiate new resource mobilization approach cards to the newly recruited members. Through mass friends of RC mobilization and recruitment of Rwandans to become – Improve the provision of youth leadership RRC members and volunteers in all 30 districts, total opportunities and promotion of best practices in 13,231 members were recruited, both youth and volunteer management at all levels of RRCS; adults. On adult members side, 5,546 new Red Cross – Elaborate the RRC Volunteer policy adult members were recruited. They come from all the – Initiate the new partnership with the GIZ/Civil socioeconomic backgrounds: teachers, doctors, local Peace Education Component authorities, businesspersons and women, government 1. Governance and Leadership officials and opinion leaders. As a result, 11,190,000 RwF raised as a membership fees. On the other hand 7,685 RRCS structures youth members were recruited especially in schools, After completion of district committees at all 30 branches, and 3,738,500 RwF was the amount of membership fees RRCS has embarked on setting up sector committees for collected from them. 5 Province New adults members New Youth members Cumulative members’ numbers Eastern Province 1,512 1,047 6,967 Northern Province 910 597 4,959 Southern Province 1,218 2,986

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