This report covers the period 01/Jan/12 to 31/Dec/12.
Overview
Working within a four-year long term planning framework (LTPF) 2012-2015, the Federation Secretariat health programme is making solid progress in building its strategic operational framework (SOF) for health that is aligned to the strategic aims and enabling actions of Strategy 2020. Additionally, the health department LTPF and logframe are aligned to the IFRC’s Secretary General’s objectives and priorities reflected under five business lines.
Over the reporting period, secretariat health staff have continued to support National Societies (NSs) based on the above mentioned global strategic direction, as well as on NSs’ expressed needs, strengths, and capacities, and global trends in public health.
Secretariat Health department provided guidance and leadership by supporting NSs technically through guidelines and manuals, tools, and materials. The secretariat health department invested as well actively in capacity building of NSs in the field of health through workshops and trainings and through active knowledge sharing, elearning, online platforms and discussion fora. It supported NSs financially, allowing them to increase their capacity to deliver programmes to beneficiaries. In this process, the secretariat health team ensured programme technical quality and financial accountability.
More specifically, during the reporting period, main achievements include success in working together as a global health team ensuring an organization wide move towards the same goals, steady progress towards a department’s research agenda, and the development of various department wide concepts such as a holistic health approach, a behaviour change framework, and a training strategy and plan. The health team has as well initiated a number of cross-technical and/or cross-sectorial health projects to harmonize approaches, address programming gaps and work more effectively.
In addition, the health team continued to promote its global advocacy campaign on eliminating health inequities as well as the adopted resolution on health inequities (resolution 6, 31st International Conference), reaching different internal and external audiences. To promote IFRC’s health programmes, the team developed a Health Corporate Folder that includes 14 corporate brochures for the different health subject areas.