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Stakeholder Analysis of 2019 ------29 Fundermental Principles of RCRC Movement ------30 2019 Annual Report The Red Cross Society of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea January 2020 Contents Preface----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Achievements of Strategic Goals ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Strategic Goal 1: Building of Resilient community ------------------------------------------------- 4 Strategic Goal 2: Strengthening disaster preparedness and response ---------------------------- 13 Strategic Goal 3: Strengthen legal base of the society as a leading humanitarian organization advocate the benefit and right of the most vulnerable mosre actively ------------ 22 Strategic Goal 4: Strengthen the sustainability of the society -------------------------------------- 24 Annex 1: Pictures: Celebration event of the centenaryof IFRC------------------------------------- 27 Annex 2: Stakeholder analysis of 2019 --------------------------------------------------------------- 29 Fundermental Principles of RCRC Movement ------------------------------------------------------- 30 1 Preface The Red Cross Society of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, founded on October 18, 1946 was admitted to the IFRC on May 11, 1956. The following figures reflect the human resource and the branch network of the society by the end of 2019. The total number of RC members is 1,079,934; among them adult members are 723,563youth members 356,371 and volunteers 105,609. The headquarters is in Pyongyang with 22 permanent branches (of provincial/city and county level) and 187 non-permanent branches (of county level). The societyconsistently built its capacity in accordanthe changing situation to complete its mission and the role as the leading humanitarian organization in the country. The society paid the special attention to enhancement of its legal basis, as the result, the Law of the DPRK RCS was adopted in January 2007 and the Statutes of the society wasrevised in 2016 during the National Congress. Giving utmost priority to the organizational development and capacity building, the Society kept upgrading and strengthening the organizational structure from the headquarters down to the different levels of branches andimproved the specialization level by providing appropriate human resource and building their capacity. By doing so, it fulfilled its role as the auxiliary to the government in the humanitarian field. The Society made the significant progress in the main activity sectors like disaster response and disaster risk reduction, livelihood, health care and first aid promotion,WASH, international cooperation, organizational development and capacity building and especially, it gave efforts to communication activities and achieved marked successes, thus, raised the RC image and supportive enthusiasm from the governmental bodies and social organizations. It also made the steady effort on fund raising and resource mobilization activities. One of the significant successes gained in 2019 by the vigorous activities of the branches and the volunteers was smooth implementation of two DREF operations to cope with the national disasters like Typhoon Lingling and thesiginificant celebration of centenary of IFRC foundation in DPRK RCS. Thanks to the integrated community resilience programme (ICRP) of the society, the communities reinforced the capacity for sustainable development and as the result, by the end of 2019 the ICRP reached to 93 communities and 490 936 population (146 548 households). Out of them, those 2 supported by the IFRC are 38 communities and 388 550 population (99 798 households). The activities of DPRK RCS in 2019 contributed to the increase of the public awareness on disaster risk reduction, positive changes in KAP (knowledge, attitude and practice) among the community people, and thus decreased the community vulnerability. All the activities done in 2019 were aligned with the Strategic Plan 2016-2020 of the society and also contributed to implementation of IFRC Strategy 2020, 1BC (1 billion coalition for resilience), the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the SDG (sustainable development goals) of UN. Taking this opportunity, acknowledgements are due to the partner national societies including British RC, Canadian RC, Chinese RCS, Danish RC, Dutch RC, German RC, Finnish RC, Italian RC, New Zealand RC, Norwegian RC, Singapore RC, Spanish RC, Swedish RC and to IFRC and ICRC who provided the DPRK RCS the heartfelt support and assistance. Secretary General Red Cross Society of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea January 2020 3 Strategic Plan 2016-2020 Mission: To prevent and alleviate human sufferings and misfortunes without any discrimination and to improve their health and welfare, promoting the friendship, solidarity and cooperation among people, thus contributing to maintenance of world peace. Vision: Building of safer, healthier and resilient communities by mobilizing power of humanity Strategic Goal 1: Building of resilient community 93 communities implemented the ICRP (integrated community resilience programme) to increase the resilience. Among them: IFRC supported: 38 communities NS replicated: 55communities 490,936 community people were reached by the ICRP. Disaster Risk Reduction The DPRK Red Cross Society has greatly contributed to changing 28 disaster prone communities across the country with the risk of flood, landslide, typhoon, tidal wave and mountain fire into safe and resilient ones by reducing disaster risks and improving people’s livelihood. Meetings and discussions conducted by 92 Red Cross branches with the local government authorities concerning the disaster prevention and preparedness. The dissemination activities conducted by branch staff and volunteers targeting more than 50,000 community people to raise awareness on the negative impact of climate change due to global warming and the protection of ecological environment. The Red Cross Society conducted awareness –raising activites to the community people regarding the climate change and the aftereffect of natural disasters, the importance of conducting activities to protect ecological environment and cope with the climate change in preventing national disasters. This has helped more than 50,000 community people acquire knowledge on disaster and let them actively participate in disaster prevention activities. 4 The Red Cross branches of all levels mobilized Red Cross volunteers on occasions of land management month, tree planting months and safety first month and conducted activities to raise the awareness of community people and youth on disaster and to let them voluntarily participate in activities such as elimination of disaster risk factors, river and road improvement, tree planting and environmental protection. Particularly the Youth Dissemination Teams, organized with Red Cross youth volunteers conducted dissemination activities through art performances and explanatory conversations targeting community people, youth and children on several occasions. They also organized demonstration activities for the RC branch staff of other cities and counties exposed to high disaster risk and actively encouraged them to introduce the successes and experiences acquired. Province, city and county Red Cross branches, in close cooperation with local government authorities and people’s security bureaux, conducted activities to maintain and improve the early warning and evacuation systems in disaster prone areas. In disaster prone areas, the early warinig system on possible disaster risks has been improved and early warning and evacuation system has been established. Trainings targeting Red Cross branch staff and community people of disaster prone areas (1 Community people engaged in the early warning and 500 in total) were conducted dealing with evacuation simulation exercise, October 2019, various topics like ensuring communication Jongpyong County, South Hamgyong Province during emergency and establishment of emergency communication network and this has helped enhance their awareness on the importance of early warning, upgraded the early warning systems in their communities and made them well- aware on the standard behavior procedure in emergencies. The Red Cross branches also organized early warning and evacuation simulation exercises twice annually and more than 90,000 people of communities concerned took part in the exercises. 2,500 copies of IEC materials related to disaster risk reduction such as “Natural Disaster and Community Based Multi-Purpose Early Warning System” and “Design and Construction of Rural Dwelling House” have been printed and distributed and this has contributed to the enhancing knowledge and skill of Red Cross volunteers and disaster management staff and improving awareness of community people on disaster management. In close cooperation with the Ministry of Land and Environment Protection and the Academy of Forestry Science, the DPRK RCS contributed to the prevention of forest denudation which is the main factor of natural disasters and to the protection of land by actively supporting tree seedling production in tree nurseries and encouraging communities at risk to plant trees. 5 Technical trainings were conducted targeting more than 120 tree nursery staff and forest rangers and 500 copies of tree seedling production guidelines were printed and distributed, which has helped them construct and operate tree nurseries and produce tree seedlings scientifically. Materials and equipment necessary for tree
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