2020 TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT AND AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 1 2020 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS UK INDONESIA INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS UK 2020 2 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS UK 2020 TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT AND AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 04 ANNUAL MESSAGE 07 ABOUT US Our Mission Our Approach Our Programmes Training Where We Work 18 LEADERSHIP 22 FINANCIALS 24 ANNUAL SUPPORT 28 HOW YOU CAN HELP 3 2020 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS UK USA TO OUR SUPPORTERS: In the face of enormous challenges in 2019 and 2020, our 35th year as a global humanitarian and relief organisation, we reaffirmed our reputation for taking on the toughest, long-running humanitarian missions, wherever they are, no matter what the conditions. As the year drew to a close, our teams operating in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas had reached more than 8 million people in 30 countries affected by conflict, disaster and disease. INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS UK 2020 4 During the year, we carried out most landfall in Florida, the storm changed of our work in demanding, difficult and course and stalled over the Bahamas, often dangerous environments. Our devastating the northernmost islands. team in Yemen continued to provide We quickly changed course with it direct assistance to more than a quarter and—working with local authorities— of a million civilians trapped by a bitter were able to provide medical care, civil war dragging into its fifth year. The psychological first aid, and water, people of Yemen continue to struggle sanitation and hygiene services to with extreme hunger and disease in what thousands of survivors. the United Nations has called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with no end in All of our responses in 2019 and 2020 sight. included training, helping to fulfil our mission to build resilience in the In the Democratic Republic of the communities we serve. As we help Congo, our teams battling to contain the them rebuild, we also pass along the USA second-largest Ebola outbreak on record knowledge and skills they need to also had to conduct their lifesaving shape their own future in ways that work in environments that included foster pride, confidence and hope for a ongoing armed conflict. And in South better future. Training, which also has Sudan—a war-torn country where we been key to our response in dealing have provided relief and contributed to with 2020’s COVID-19 pandemic, essential self-reliance for 25 years—three remains the foundational element in International Medical Corps-run schools everything we do. in 2019 graduated 87 midwives and nurses, each one desperately needed in As we carry out our mission to respond a country with one of the world’s highest to conflict, disaster and disease, we maternal mortality rates. know that our lifesaving work is due to the profound generosity of our donors. Last September, we responded in We give you our heartfelt thanks for all the Bahamas to support survivors of that you helped us accomplish in 2019. Hurricane Dorian, one of the most Once again, we were first there, no powerful storms ever recorded in the matter where—and for that, you have region. Originally forecast to make our enduring gratitude. Andrew W. Géczy Ognjen Radosavljevic Chairman Managing Director International Medical Corps UK International Medical Corps UK 5 2020 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS UK A GLOBAL FIRST RESPONDER CAMEROON INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS UK 2020 6 OUR MISSION INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS UK: A GLOBAL FIRST RESPONDER We provide training and deliver emergency healthcare, along with related services, to those affected by conflict, natural disaster or disease. We do this no matter where they may be in the world or what the conditions. We also train people in their own communities, providing them with the skills they need to recover, to chart their own path to self-reliance and to shape their own future as they become effective first responders themselves. CAMEROON 7 2020 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS UK SPEED SAVES LIVES INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS UK 2020 8 OUR APPROACH Our Emergency Response Teams deploy fast to assist those in great need—often arriving within hours to reach those even in the most remote, challenging environments. Drawing on experience gained in build a better future through training. 35 years of responding to disasters We strengthen local health systems in more than 80 countries on six and work with community leaders, continents, our surge capacity hire and train staff locally, develop includes physicians and nurses partnerships and evaluate progress to trained in emergency medicine, ensure quality outcomes. With a staff supported by specialists in essential that numbers about 7,000 worldwide, healthcare services ranging from more than 90% of whom are recruited mental health and psychosocial locally, our strategy ensures that the support to technical expertise in knowledge and tools required to gender-based violence, nutrition, prepare for—and respond to—future water, sanitation and hygiene—all emergencies are culturally compatible of it to assist those in need. We and remain available in the community. do this because speed saves We work to ensure that if disaster lives in the initial hours following strikes again, residents can themselves DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO a disaster. As conditions ease, we be effective first responders. stay and partner with survivors to 9 2020 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS UK OUR PROGRAMMES In 2019 and 2020 we once again provided programmes designed to help communities hit by disasters onto a path from relief to self-reliance. In the process we saved thousands of lives, eased the plight of countless others and brought hope for a better future to those who have lost so much. CAMEROON INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS UK 2020 10 EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND HEALTH SERVICES PREPAREDNESS SUPPORT In March 2020, the war in Syria entered its tenth In Yemen, our teams worked to fight death and year. We continued to respond to the urgent disease amongst 186,150 people in vulnerable emergency needs of families affected by or fleeing communities in Lahj and Taiz governorates. By from conflict. supporting five primary healthcare clinics in Lahj Our emergency, primary and secondary healthcare and one hospital in Taiz, and deploying two Health services saved and changed lives. Services ranged and Nutrition Mobile Teams to reach remote from physical rehabilitation for people with war- populations, we provided help for pregnant related injuries and other disabilities, to providing women, vital child health services and treatment hearing aids for children and adults, to preventing for diseases. and managing common diseases. Our teams also provided mental health and psychosocial support to those suffering from WOMEN’S AND psychological distress and mental health conditions CHILDREN’S HEALTH amidst the chaos of the conflict. We mobilised In Somalia, we worked through the Jowhar psychological first-aid teams, provided treatment Maternity Unit and communities to provide around- through psychiatrists and doctors, trained the-clock emergency obstetric and neonatal care, caregivers and deployed in-community services for as well as lifesaving feeding services for infants those unable to visit facilities. and young children. We also supported vulnerable We also worked in some of the most difficult women and children during the vital first thousand circumstances in the world to provide nutrition days from a child’s conception through 23 months for mothers, infants and young children, improve of age. hygiene in the camps, run community awareness sessions to empower women and girls, and support survivors and those at risk of gender- FAMILY AND based violence. COMMUNITY HEALTH In Iraq, our community health workers have NUTRITION AND FOOD SECURITY worked with our Mobile Medical Units to support vulnerable internally displaced people and host Working in communities, in homes and at our communities. Our teams raised awareness around facilities, our Somalia teams have improved access health and hygiene, and supported referrals to lifesaving nutrition services for vulnerable to primary health centres and other facilities, populations. including those displaced by war, reaching 28,328 individuals. with a focus on pregnant women, infants and young children. More specifically, we provided beneficiaries with nutrition screening, growth monitoring for children under five, and inpatient WATER, SANITATION and outpatient management of severe acute AND HYGIENE malnutrition, all integrated with health, WASH and In Ethiopia, our teams supported vulnerable and protection services. internally displaced people at desperate risk from disease, poor sanitation and inadequate access to water as a result of drought and MENTAL HEALTH AND conflict. Communities are now benefiting from PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT five rehabilitated shallow wells that provide a safe supply of drinking water. We also provided In Jordan’s Azraq Refugee camp, our teams 2,850 dignity kits to adolescent girls and 3,000 supported 1,883 vulnerable Syrian refugees hygiene kits to vulnerable women. with comprehensive mental health services. Our psychologists and psychiatrists provided a total of 25,589 mental health consultations. TRAINING UNDERPINS ALL THAT WE DO 11 2020 INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS UK TRAINING FOCUSING ON TRAINING FOR 35 YEARS Beginning in 1984 with our first programme, training has been key to fulfilling our mission—not just helping communities recover from adversity, but helping them become stronger on their journey toward self-reliance.