312 ICRC ANNUAL REPORT 2019 ASIA AND THE PACIFIC PROTECTION Total ASSISTANCE 2019 Targets (up to) Achieved CIVILIANS CIVILIANS Restoring family links Economic security RCMs collected 4,361 Food consumption Beneficiaries 165,000 241,262 RCMs distributed 5,914 Food production Beneficiaries 175,500 149,598 Phone calls facilitated between family members 10,976 Income support Beneficiaries 111,150 97,960 Tracing cases closed positively (subject located or fate established) 1,768 Living conditions Beneficiaries 195,000 322,619 People reunited with their families 28 Capacity-building Beneficiaries 19,400 2,169 of whom unaccompanied minors/separated children 5 Water and habitat PEOPLE DEPRIVED OF THEIR FREEDOM Water and habitat activities Beneficiaries 693,509 429,922 ICRC visits Health Places of detention visited 267 Health centres supported Structures 91 96 Detainees in places of detention visited 290,821 PEOPLE DEPRIVED OF THEIR FREEDOM of whom visited and monitored individually 4,475 Economic security Visits carried out 517 Food consumption Beneficiaries 150 Restoring family links Living conditions Beneficiaries 29,000 85,658 RCMs collected 7,641 Water and habitat RCMs distributed 5,128 Water and habitat activities Beneficiaries 84,526 107,021 Phone calls made to families to inform them of the whereabouts WOUNDED AND SICK 718 of a detained relative Medical care Hospitals supported Structures 51 67 Physical rehabilitation EXPENDITURE IN KCHF Projects supported Projects 98 87 Protection 50,638 Water and habitat Beds Assistance 153,259 Water and habitat activities 2,183 2,073 Prevention 37,266 (capacity) Cooperation with National Societies 16,014 General 6,407 Total 263,584 Of which: Overheads 16,075 IMPLEMENTATION RATE Expenditure/yearly budget 91% PERSONNEL Mobile staff 465 Resident staff (daily workers not included) 3,688 AsIA ANd ThE PACIfIC – INTROdUCTION 313 DELEGATIONS Afghanistan Myanmar ICRC delegation Bangkok (regional) New Delhi (regional) Bangladesh Pakistan ICRC regional delegation Beijing (regional) Philippines Jakarta (regional) Sri Lanka ICRC mission Kuala Lumpur (regional) Suva (regional) 314 ICRC ANNUAL REPORT 2019 AFGHANISTAN UZBEKISTAN Having assisted victims of the Afghan armed conflict for Dushanbe TAJIKISTAN* TURKMENISTAN six years in Pakistan, the ICRC opened a delegation in Kabul in 1987. At present, it monitors the conduct of hostilities Faizabad and engages in confidential dialogue on IHL violations. It Mazar-i-Sharif supports health-care facilities, provides physical rehabili- tation services, improves water and sanitation services, and helps the Afghan Red Crescent Society strengthen its Gulbahar Bamiyan Kabul Jalalabad Herat capacities. It visits detainees to monitor their treatment and AFGHANISTAN Peshawar living conditions and helps them exchange news with their Ghazni Khost Islamabad families. It promotes accession to and national implemen- Farah tation of IHL treaties and compliance with IHL in military and security operations. Lashkar Gah Kandahar ISLAMIC REPUBLIC PAKISTAN* OF IRAN YEARLY RESULT Level of achievement of ICRC yearly objectives/plans of action MEDIUM ICRC/AR_2019 ICRC deleg ation ICRC su b-deleg ation ICRC office/presen ce ICRC-ru n ph ysical reh abilitation project ICRC reg ion al log istics cen tre *Map sh ows stru ctu res su pportin g ICRC operation s in Afg h an istan KEY RESULTS/CONSTRAINTS IN 2019 PROTECTION Total CIVILIANS • Access and security constraints forced the ICRC to adapt its Restoring family links activities: projects to improve access to potable water were RCMs collected 825 badly affected. RCMs distributed 1,639 • The ICRC urged parties to conflict to ensure that civilians Phone calls facilitated between family members 8,119 and medical workers were protected as required by IHL; Tracing cases closed positively (subject located or fate established) 705 these parties, the authorities, and others were also urged PEOPLE DEPRIVED OF THEIR FREEDOM to facilitate humanitarian access to people in need. ICRC visits • Wounded and sick people were treated by first responders, Places of detention visited 20 or at National Society-run clinics or the Mirwais Hospital Detainees in places of detention visited 25,685 – all of them supported by the ICRC. An ICRC-funded of whom visited and monitored individually 1,212 network of taxis ferried injured people to health facilities. Visits carried out 51 • Disabled people regained some mobility through the Restoring family links RCMs collected 2,933 ICRC’s physical rehabilitation services. The ICRC helped RCMs distributed 2,279 them get an education, earn money, or improve their Phone calls made to families to inform them of the whereabouts living conditions. 254 of a detained relative • More victims of IHL violations than foreseen were given cash by the ICRC to cover their basic expenses. Female ASSISTANCE 2019 Targets (up to) Achieved breadwinners worked towards self-sufficiency, with the CIVILIANS Afghan Red Crescent Society’s and the ICRC’s assistance. Economic security • People held in connection with conflict contacted their Income support Beneficiaries 7,000 14,653 relatives through the Movement’s family-links services. Living conditions Beneficiaries 5,607 ICRC support made health care and clean water accessible, Water and habitat and improved living conditions, at some prisons. Water and habitat activities Beneficiaries 328,400 124,300 Health Health centres supported Structures 47 47 EXPENDITURE IN KCHF PEOPLE DEPRIVED OF THEIR FREEDOM Protection 12,454 Economic security Assistance 53,456 Living conditions Beneficiaries 29,000 41,503 Prevention 4,113 Water and habitat Cooperation with National Societies 1,854 Water and habitat activities Beneficiaries 30,000 30,892 General 1,176 WOUNDED AND SICK Total 73,053 Medical care Of which: Overheads 4,459 Hospitals supported Structures 2 1 IMPLEMENTATION RATE Physical rehabilitation Expenditure/yearly budget 95% Projects supported Projects 9 9 PERSONNEL Water and habitat Mobile staff 100 Beds Water and habitat activities 1,282 791 Resident staff (daily workers not included) 1,725 (capacity) AfghANIsTAN 315 CONTEXT ICRC-trained first-aiders provided life-saving Care; an ConfliCts between NATO-baCked Afghan forCes and armed ICRC-funded taxi system transported seriously wounded people groups, involving airstrikes as well as ground oper ations, to health facilities. Wounded or sick people in the south were remained intense, especially in eastern and southern treated at the Mirwais Hospital, whiCh Continued to receive Afghanistan, and in both urban and rural areas. International substantial support from the ICRC. Disabled people improved military forces continued to provide technical support for local their mobility at ICRC-run physiCal rehabilitation Centres; they troops. Peace negotiations between the Afghan government also benefted from livelihood-support, education and sports and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (better known as the initiatives to advance their social inclusion, and were given Taliban), and between the United States of America and the assistance for easing their living Conditions. Primary health Taliban, were still at an early stage. care was available at clinics run by the Afghan Red Crescent Society with the ICRC’s support. The presence of numerous armed groups, including the Islamic State group, and rising crime rates further complicated More victims of IHL violations than foreseen received cash the situation. In November 2019, a number of ex-members of to help ofset the fnancial consequences of these violations, the Islamic State group and their families surrendered to the and Cover basiC expenses. Female breadwinners in violence- Afghan government. afected areas were given vocational training, livestock and cash-for-work opportunities to help them earn an income. Civilians bore the brunt of the fghting: many of them were wounded, killed, displaced or prevented from obtaining basic The ICRC visited detainees in acCordanCe with its standard serviCes. They struggled to meet their urgent needs and/ proCedures. Findings from the visits, and reCommendations or lost their livelihoods, as a consequence of armed confict concerning judicial guarantees, detention conditions and or other situations of violence, and/or because health, water medical ethics, were discussed with detaining authorities, to and agricultural facilities and services, especially in rural help them ensure that detainees’ treatment and living condi- areas, were inadequate or dysfunctional owing to the fghting tions met internationally recognized standards. Detainees and economic instability. Confict, detention, migration and contacted their families through the Movement’s family-links natural disasters dispersed many families. Arrests made in services; their families visited some of them. Ailing detainees connection with the situation described above worsened the were treated by ICRC health staf or at ICRC-supported prison overcrowding in detention facilities. clinics. The ICRC donated hygiene kits and winter essentials for detainees, and helped several female detainees earn an Attacks against humanitarian personnel, and medical workers income. and facilities, and restrictions imposed on them, Continued. From mid-April to mid-September, the Taliban’s military Following discussions with certain armed groups, the ICRC commission restricted the ICRC and the WHO’s activities and provided some people in their custody with winter essentials withdrew its security guarantees for both organizations. and enabled