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Consequences,challenges,coordination

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Strategy 2020 voices the collective determination

o the International Federation o Red Cross and Red

Crescent Societies (IFRC) in tackling the major challeng-

es that conront humanity in the next decade. Inormed

by the needs and vulnerabilities o the diverse commu-

nities where we work, as well as the basic rights and

reedoms to which all are entitled, this strategy seeks to

benet all who look to Red Cross Red Crescent to help

to build a more humane, dignied, and peaceul world.

Over the next ten years, the collective ocus o the IFRC

will be on achieving the ollowing strategic aims:

1. Save lives, protect livelihoods, and strengthen

recovery from disasters and crises

2. Enable healthy and safe living

3. Promote social inclusion and a culture

of non-violence and peace

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Introduction: Haitis chance to rise

Roots o catastrophe

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Consequences, challenges, coordination

Outlying areas underserved

Concern or coordination

Dire need to reduce vulnerability

Haitis special complications

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The Haitian Red Cross: connecting

Grassroots connection or a global response

Communicating with disaster-aected communities

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Tsunami lessons learned for Haiti

How to be more eective

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Perspective

A sprint and then a marathon

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ERU deployments

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FACT composition

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The HaitianRed Cross:connecting

PerspectiveTsunami lessonslearned for Haiti

Contents

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International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Haiti: rom tragedy to opportunity Special report, one month on February 2010

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The scale o the disaster let even veteran disaster

responders stunned, people who had seen rst hand

the savagery o nature elsewhere, in the Americas, in

sub-Saharan Arica and in countries like Iran, Indonesia,Pakistan and China. The magnitude-7 earthquake

the biggest to hit Haiti or 200 years may have let

as many as 200,000 people dead and up to a million

homeless. But gures cannot express what happened.

The capital, Port-au-Prince, and outlying areas lay in

ruins.

No one escaped the tragedy. As always when disaster

strikes this Caribbean nation, Haitian Red Cross

volunteers were among the rst to respond but this was

like nothing they had known beore. As they scrambled

to assist their communities they themselves were

grieving. They, too, had lost homes and loved ones,

and riends and relatives were among the missing. The

perseverance o 2,000 o them was nothing less than

heroic.

Within a week o the 12 January quake, more than

400 Red Cross and Red Crescent workers rom

around the world were with them and many more

were on the way. Beore the end o the month 600

had been deployed with 30 National Red Cross or

Red Crescent Societies in country, a strong regional

presence Caribbean, Central and South American

among them.

They set up emergency hospitals, got basic health care

unctioning, and by months end were treating 1,600

patients a day. Relie supplies had been delivered to

more than 122,000 people, 14 million litres o water

provided, and 70 relie fights had landed in Haiti or the

neighbouring Dominican Republic to support what was

ast becoming one o our largest and most complex

operations in recent memory.

rt f ttpeAmid the rubble o Port-au-Prince, Tadateru Kono,

president o the International Federation o RedCross and Red Crescent Societies, summed up the

challenge. We must conront a natural disaster that

is not only one o the biggest o the past decade, he

said, but is aecting one o the very poorest countries

in the world.

Poverty lies at the root o the catastrophe and countless

lives were lost because little had been invested in

measures to limit the impact o natural hazards. The

level o damage and the resulting overwhelming needs

are a direct result o poverty and under-development.

The disaster o Haiti is not the earthquake. What we areseeing here is what happens when an extreme natural

event occurs in the lives o people who are already

righteningly vulnerable.

Our challenge now is to help Haiti recover rom the

earthquake and to overcome its past deprivation. The

experience the Red Cross and Red Crescent has gained

rom ve years o post-tsunami work will be invaluable,

or we must ensure that Haitis devastated communities

receive not only the help that they need now but the

help they will need or a long, long while to come.

This is a rare opportunity to e ect large-scale changewhere it is so desperately needed. It is also an

opportunity to put power into the hands o the people

aected by the disaster. This is already being done

as we prioritize community outreach and beneciary

communications that empowers and equips people

to be true partners in their recovery. The recovery

process will take years perhaps even a generation

but it is our best chance to turn Haitis ortunes around.

Together, we must transorm tragedy into opportunity.

IntroductionHaitis chance to rise


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Three weeks ater the Haiti earthquake the need or partnership was nevergreater, according to Bekele Geleta, secretary general o the International Fed-eration o Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). With the expectedstart o rains in May, and right behind them the hurricane season, more pres-sure poured on the agencies responding to the disaster.

Tell-tale signs could be seen in the ongoing use o sta who had suered them-selves in the earthquake. They were in urgent need o rest and recuperation.

The helpers needed help. They needed time to grieve and time was at a pre-mium.

For the IFRC, the greatest urgency lay in emergency shelter and non-ood re-lie on which it leads a UN-designated cluster o agencies and in the provi-sion o latrines beore Port-au-Prince is awash with human excrement.

In makeshi t settlements like the Renault Camp on the edge o the ruinedcapital, a shelter can be sheets draped over branches with a piece o oldcardboard or ooring. The Red Cross and Red Crescent has provided tenso thousands o people with plastic sheeting, tools and basic householdnecessities, but the density o the displacement brings with it immense

complexity.

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Dire situations exist outside Port-au-Prince as well. Two hours south o the capi-tal, Leogane was the epicentre o the quake. Downtown, the Gustave Christopheootball stadium is as bad as it gets. Up to 10,000 people are reported to be sleep-ing here, in appalling, imsy shelters, packed together like sardines.

This city o 180,000 people minus the 10,000 or more who perished in thedisaster resembles Mogadishu or Beirut at the height o their conicts. It is

levelled. Experts estimate 80 per cent o Leogane is damaged, but even thestanding structures are cracked beyond repair or are next to buildings that willhave to be demolished.

Because Port-au-Prince has suered most o the earthquake damage most in-ternational assistance is ocused on the capital as well. Outlying and rural ar-eas have been let under-served as a consequence despite severe distress. Mean-while demand or community services there is growing apace as more andmore people arrive rom Port-au-Prince, vacating the capital in search o ood,shelter, and livelihood.

John Holmes, the UNs Emergency Relie Coordinator, was rank. Despite

the heroic eorts o so many colleagues on the ground and the continuing e-orts o all who are working to support them rom outside the country, themagnitude o the disaster and the conditions in Haiti continue to pose hugechallenges. And the approaching rains let little time to spare.

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Whether it is shelter and relie, water and sanitat ion, health or recovery in or outside the capital the International Red Cross and Red CrescentMovement knows a coordinated response is essential. How it structuresoperations is crucial: with consensus based on what is happening on theground and agreed upon within all its institutions.

There are options but the primary goals are clear: rebuilding the commu-nity, meeting the evident needs o the most vulnerable people and fllingkey gaps in Haitis reconstruction, and rebuilding the Haitian Red Cross,

restoring the capacity it requires as a prime humanitarian organization.

Shelter programmes will deal with both transitional and long-term needs,rom shelter kits and sae building inormation to the reconstruction opermanent housing. They will recognise, as well, survivors dieringneeds. Some people will return to where they came rom, others will beunable to.

Health as well as water and sanitation approaches will be low-tech andsustainable, complementing the work o other agencies by working romthe periphery o the earthquake area towards the centre where everyoneelse has ocused. Among other things, community-based health and frst-

aid services will be provided, along with psychosocial support and accessto sae water.

Livelihood, ood security and economic recovery eorts will deal with in-dividual, household and local enterprise needs, including the re-establish-ment o local markets, and short-term salary support to teachers, doctorsand nurses. Community health and education services must be re-estab-lished not only to meet the current needs but with an eye to contingencyplanning or uture disasters. It means developing and equipping tempo-rary and permanent health centres and schools, promoting protection andawareness, and empowering community organisations.

de nee t eue vulnebltyAnd then comes disaster risk reduction. Had investment been made in quake-resistant buildings and other risk reduction measures ar ewer lives wouldhave been lost in Haiti. It is a message relevant around the world where only aminiscule amount o ofcial development assistance is spent on proactive at-tempts to reduce vulnerabilities.

Ater the Indian Ocean tsunami and now Haiti, the world must do more thannod agreement. Intensifed eorts to reduce the risk can dramatically lessendisaster impact.

Right now in Haiti there is dire need o contingency planning or the hurri-cane season, advocacy or lie-sae buildings, as well as action on the threats toshort and long-term ood security, environmental management, and commu-nity-based risk reduction.


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ht pel mpltnAmong a rat o challenges programmes may have to conront, some are spe-cifc to Haiti. High loss o lie will likely inuence the labour pool and thesupply o local expertise, creating a capacity gap. The logistical constraints oHaitis island location will complicate procurement and the delivery o materi-als. With large resources expected or recovery, limited space and opportunityor implementation may bring signifcant competition among agencies.

Eective urban recovery will require signifcant reconstruction o inrastruc-ture and solutions to questions o land title and land-use planning. A signif-cant ow o people to rural areas is being witnessed and whether they wil l stay

or return to the capital is unknown. The impact o the aid process such asthe potential or ination and the consequent impact on ood security mayproduce counter-currents to successul recovery.

Eective coordination and operational structures will be sorely needed.

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The HaitianRed Cross: connecting

They were among the frst to respond because they were already there. WhenHaitis January earthquake struck, it struck their home communities. Asaround the world aid agencies scrambled, and logisticians sought ast routes to

the Caribbean, the Haitian Red Cross was up and running.

At the St. Pierre square in Ptionville, a small suburb to the east o Port-au-Prince, hundreds o survivors had gathered, shocked and dazed, many injured.Some had escaped with scrapes and scratches but others had sustained deepgashes, open head wounds, crushed bones and badly ractured arms and legs.

Across the road, in the garage beneath the Mayors ofce, local Red Crossvolunteers had established a frst-aid station. The space was cramped, carsflled much o the garage, but a steady stream o people was passing through.Wounds were being dressed, broken bones seen to.

Its not the best place, said volunteer Rita Aristide, a veteran Red Crossersteeled by the atermath o hurricanes, but people are coming and we are car-ing or them.

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Today thousands o people like Rita are central to the International Red Crossand Red Crescent Movements response. Haitis national Red Cross society hasbroad disaster experience, and lessons learned rom the likes o the 2007 hur-ricanes, Dean and Noel, or 2008s Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike, have let staand volunteers with skills their partners can rely on.

As an auxiliary body to its government in humanitarian matters, the HaitianRed Cross works closely with the authorities and the National Risk and Dis-aster Management Ofce. With the IFRC, it has been meeting every day,rom day one, with government representatives to discuss progress and pri-orities in the earthquake operation.

But as with everything else in the disaster, the Red Cross suered greatly andrebuilding and strengthening its capacities will be part and parcel o Move-ment programmes. Services must be re-established, uture growth planned,and premises constructed, a Central Blood Bank among them. Time and re-sources must be invested to identiy strengths and gaps.

Gt nnetnf glbl epneThe trust the public has in the Haitian Red Cross has already been elt inoperations. Relie distributions have stepped up a gear to within reach o their

frst target: the delivery o non-ood assistance to 5,000 amilies a week. Un-like others reported in the media, Red Cross distributions have been generallysmooth and secure. An IFRC team leader said, We dont use barbed wire or


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armed security. We rely on our emblem and the goodwill people have or theHaitian Red Cross.

The goodwill provides a grassroots connection or a global response, an assetused, too, as the IFRC prioritizes benefciary communications: getting lie-saving inormation to and rom the earthquake survivors it wants to support.

cmmuntng wtte-ffete mmunteBenefciary communications works right across the disaster environment, in

preparedness and early warning, as well as in emergency and post-emergencysettings. It is a way to keep in touch with aected people, promote mutualunderstanding, and help increase the quality and eectiveness o aid. It is alsoan essential service. It has been an operational priority rom the outset and willempower people to become real partners in their recovery.

Passing on alerts and advice is part o it, ensuring people know what is happen-ing. But so is hearing where they are, what they need, and what they think othe support they are getting.

It took o ast in Haiti. The National Society and the IFRC teamed up with amobile phone company to text more than a million subscribers a day with

health, shelter and sanitation messages. The push o a button achieved whatwould normally take an army o volunteers days.

The text campaign is part o an integrated benefciary communications strat-egy that will also use more traditional methods, such as TV and radio spots,newspaper advertising, community meetings and megaphones. But with thenationwide mobile phone network quickly repaired in the wake o the earth-quake, phones are a principal means o communication.

Another initiative, involving the Thomson Reuters Foundation, is takingshape to allow a two-way exchange with target groups through an innovativeservice known as the Emergency Inormation Service (EIS) that combinesSMS and geo-mapping technologies.

The IFRC is working in close collaboration with CDAC, a working group onCommunicating with Disaster Aected Communities that brings togetherleading relie agencies as well as media development organizations to maximiseaid eectiveness, accountability and transparency to those vulnerable to oraected by crisis. The group includes the Thomson Reuters Foundation, In-ternews, UN-OCHA, Merlin, BBC World Service Trust, Save The Children,Irish Red Cross and British Red Cross, and is currently on the ground workingto deliver crucial inormation to the people o Haiti.

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Tsunami lessonslearned for Haiti

The parallels are inescapable. A disaster o staggering proportion. Scenes ototal devastation. A toll almost beyond comprehension.

For those who had stood on the coast o Aceh and tried to understand that adebris-strewn plain had been, days beore, a vibrant community, Haitibrought sickening memories. Except what a wave rising higher than the coco-nut trees had simply removed rom the landscape, an earthquake here hadsimply attened.

Aid workers on standby grabbed the packed bags and dashed en masse to theairport. So did journalists and camera people. Within hours, the Haiti earth-quake dominated the media as the tsunami had done rom the Indian Oceana little more than fve years previously.

Celebrity stars banded together or multi-locational telethons. The money

owed. Donors committed. There would be generous unding or Haiti asthere had been or the tsunami. So can the ormer learn rom the latter?

hw t be me effetveMindul o the extraordinary scale and scope o the tsunami recovery op-eration, the Red Cross and Red Crescent ensured that the monitoring andevaluation o it was comprehensive. More than 200 reviews and evalua-tions took place in its lietime, allowing the adjustment o programmesthat became more eective, inclusive, accountable and sustainable. Les-sons learned have been applied to ongoing operations and to more recentdisasters. They have also inormed the development oStrategy 2020, the

IFRCs guiding document that ensures there are link s between past opera-tions and uture responses.

Among tsunami lessons learned a shared experience o external and internalpartners, governments and other agencies here are a relevant top handul.

To ully establish recovery as an essential component o disaster response, institu-tional recognition and strong leadership is needed.The tsunami operation revealed a need to develop expert capacity beyond thetraditional felds o emergency preparedness and response. Holistic program-ming is required to help communities recover, support rebuilding, and ocuson reducing uture vulnerability to disasters. Re-establishing essential services

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Plans linking relie, recovery and development must be created rom the beginningo a disaster operation. This requires time or consulting with communities, gov-ernments and partners.Red Cross and Red Crescent disaster response units now routinely includerecovery experts to ensure community needs are understood and planned or,and considered rom the outset.

Benefciaries and communities must be placed at the centre o programming, in-cluded in design, implementation and monitoring.In the Maldives, the Red Cross and Red Crescent worked closely with com-munities to identiy their most vulnerable households. One approach used wasa well-being ranking, where community volunteers reviewed every household

and allocated points based on agreed criteria. The households most in needwere given assistance. Assisted households also indicated how they could con-tribute to the project and what type o support they needed.

Risk reduction must be an integral part o recovery to truly rebuild saer and moreresilient communities.Ater the tsunami, early-warning and disaster preparedness programmes werestepped up. Indonesian Red Cross sta and volunteers are trained to use a mixo high and low-tech means to warn people o risks. This includes hand-heldwalkie-talkie radios, SMS, sirens and megaphones. Because volunteers arepresent within the community they can also encourage people to participate indisaster training and become part o an early-warning network.

Partnerships can expand an organizations reach and help meet the ull range ocommunity needs, especially in areas where expertise and capacity is limited.In Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan Red Cross Society, Red Cross and Red Crescentpartners, the World Bank and UN-Habitat set up a Community Recovery andReconstruction Partnership to help people rebuild their houses and commu-nity inrastructure. The partners pooled their expertise in community mobili-zation, water and sanitation, house engineering, social mobilization and com-mercial and development banking to the beneft o amilies aected by thetsunami. Other partnerships with the private sector and other aid organiza-tions helped support livelihoods projects.

Capacity building o host National Societies like the Haitian Red Cross must be

strategic, sustainable and ocused on areas prioritized by the host, even duringlarge-scale recovery programmes.The tangible benefts o the Red Cross and Red Crescent tsunami operation inthe Maldives prompted a groundswell o community interest in the establish-ment o the frst National Society there. The Maldivian Red Crescent attainedlegal recognition in 2009 and began planning programmes based on localneeds.

The Haiti earthquake, o course, is not the tsunami. I the parallels are clearso are the dierences. The tsunami aected a dozen countries, the earthquakeocussed on a single one, going straight or its heart, crippling government andcentralised services. And nowhere did the tsunami impact upon such a poor,

distressed and under-developed state.

Still, the lessons learned in fve long years around the Indian Ocean have muchto contribute to easing Haitis plight and planning its long-term recovery.


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Perspective

I Haiti, the poorest and least-developed nation o the Western hemispherewas already on its knees, then today it lies ace down. Eighty per cent o its 8.7million inhabitants already lived in poverty and hal the population subsistedon less than $1 a day. The 12 January earthquake robbed many o even thoselimited means and let them in need o more than simple recovery. They need

extensive help to totally rebuild their lives.

Disasters are a common Haitian story. Since a previous earthquake destroyedPort-au-Prince back in 1770, the records show an endless procession o tropicalstorms, hurricanes, oods, as well as quakes and the occasional tsunami.

The past decade or more has been unrelenting. Among the worst, in 1998,Hurricane Georges destroyed 80 per cent o Haitis crops. In 2004, TropicalStorm Jeanne claimed 1,900 lives, and oods took 2,600.

And in 2008 three hurricanes Gustav, Hanna and Ike and Tropical StormFay let hundreds o people dead, tens o thousands homeless, and aggravated

chronic malnutrition in several parts o the country. The damage to homesand inrastructure was unprecedented and more than 165,000 amilies wereaected. Losses were estimated at close to $1 billion, which is almost 15 percent o Haitis gross domestic product.

Any country o its size would reel rom such devastation. But prone as Haiti isto disasters, they are but part o the story. Alongside the poverty, political andsocial instability, an economy in ruins, chronic unemployment, overwhelmingchallenges in health, as well as severe deorestation and environmental degra-dation that undermines arming, inates ood prices, and leaves the countrymore vulnerable to ooding, have been among the countrys deeper problems.Disasters have only ed on them.

How great, then, is the challenge when on top o all that, the countrys capital,the hub o a centralised administration, home to more than 2 million people,is levelled? A third o the population lived in the wider aected area.

a pnt n ten mtnAlthough real progress is being made, even the immediate needs are o a mag-nitude rarely seen, not least in the provision o shelter. What has not allendown in the capital will mostly need to be razed. Haitis President Ren Prevalhas said they have lost 20,000 commercial buildings and 225,000 homes.

An estimated one million Haitians are in pressing need o shelter, and easingtheir plight ast is paramount. In the capital, tens o thousands o people arestruggling in more than 500 makeshit camps. Still more are living outsidetheir homes, too rightened to move inside them but reluctant to leave their


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neighbourhood. With the rainy season due to begin in May and the hurricaneseason in June, the situation is made more critical.

O equal concern, Port-au-Prince was let without sanitation. Excretia dis-posal in particular remains o great concern, and as conditions only worsen sodoes the risk o potential epidemics o water-borne disease.

Nor are concerns contained in the capital. Around 263,000 survivors, the gov-ernment says, have let the earthquake zone or rural areas to the north andwest. Getting assistance to them is cause or more unease. Food prices are ris-ing and people there struggle to meet basic ood needs. Moreover, it is earedthat, because o lack o rain, the February/March harvest will be compara-

tively poor in the bread basket o the region.

These snapshots underline a ew immediate challenges. As the IFRCs Secre-tary General, Bekele Geleta, put it, Disaster response is a sprint but disasterrecovery is a marathon.

Sustainable long-term recovery plans, he says, must be at the heart o all we do.Most important o all, the people o Haiti must move towards a saer uture.

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ERU* deployments (as of 10 February 2010)

ERU Type Number National Societies Working location

of Personnel

Field Hospital 53 German Red Cross/Finnish Red Cross Carreour

Rapid Deployment Hospital 30 Norwegian Red Cross/Canadian Red Cross/ Port-au-Prince

Magen David Adom (Israel) Jacmel

Basic Health Care (Fixed) 16 Japanese Red Cross Port-au-Prince

Basic Health Care (Mobile) 18 Finnish Red Cross/French Red Cross/ Port-au-Prince

Swedish Red Cross

Basic Health Care (Mobile) 9 German Red Cross/Swiss Red Cross Port-au-Prince

Basic Health Care (Mobile) 9 French Red Cross/Qatari Red Crescent Port-au-Prince

Relie/Shelter 7 American Red Cross Port-au-Prince

Relie/Shelter 6 Belgian Red Cross/Netherlands Red Cross/

Luxembourg Red Cross/French Red Cross Port-au-Prince

Relie/Shelter 6 French Red Cross/Finnish Red Cross Lgane

Relie/Shelter 4 Danish Red Cross Port-au-Prince

Logistics 6 British Red Cross/Spanish Red Cross Santo Domingo

Logistics 6 Swiss Red Cross Port-au-Prince

Water and Sanitation 7 French Red Cross Lgane/Petit Goave

Water and Sanitation 6 Spanish Red Cross Lgane

IT/Telecom 4 Spanish Red Cross Port-au-Prince

IT/Telecom 5 Danish Red Cross/American Red Cross Port-au-Prince

Mass Sanitation 7 Austrian Red Cross Lgane

Mass Sanitation 6 British Red Cross Port-au-Prince

Mass Sanitation 6 Spanish Red Cross Port-au-Prince

Base Camp 14 Italian Red Cross Port-au-Prince

Base Camp 7 Danish Red Cross Port-au-Prince

21 ERUs 232 16 National Societies

*ERU = Emergency Response Unit

ERUs are pre-trained teams o special-

ists, provided by Red Cross and RedCrescent Societies rom around the

world. They are specialized in felds such

as relie distribution and shelter, logistics,

basic health care, feld hospitals, water

and sanitation (including producing water

or hospitals), telecommunications, base

camps (to house Red Cross and RedCrescent delegates), etc. These teams

o experts have pre-packed sets o stan-

dardized equipment ready or immediate

use in emergencies. They are meant to fll

the gaps created by an emergency, de-

struction o medical structures, o water

mains, until recovery or reconstructioncan be carried out. The units are sel-

sufcient and can stay up to our months

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*FACT = Field Assessment

and Coordination Team

FACT teams are deployed in the veryfrst hours olllowing a disaster, at the re-

quest o the National Society in the a-

ected country. They are composed o

personnel provided by Red Cross and

Red Crescent Societies rom around the

world or by the IFRC, who are experts

in dierent felds, such as relie coordi-nation, logistics, health, nutrition, public

health and epidemiology, water and sani-

tation, fnance, administration, psycho-

logical support, administration, reporting

and communications. They are usually

deployed or two to our weeks.

FACT* composition (as of 9 February 2010) all are working in Port-au-Prince

Function National Society

Team Leader IFRC

Deputy Team Leader- Operations Spanish Red Cross

Deputy Team Leader- Support Services British Red Cross

Reporting IFRC

Relie Coordinator IFRC

Health Coordinator Norwegian Red Cross

Water and Sanitation Coordinator British Red Cross

Shelter Swiss Red Cross

Recovery British Red Cross

Movement Coordinator Norwegian Red Cross

Reporting IFRC

IT and Inormation Management IFRC

Delegates health IFRC /Finnish Red Cross

Finance Icelandic Red Cross

Logistics Coordinator IFRC /American Red Cross

Logistics liaison IFRC /American Red Cross

Security IFRC

Senior Administrator Danish Red Cross


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Additional National Society deployments

Main activity in Haiti Working location

Colombian Red Cross Colombian Red Cross Water Distribution or Hospital Port-au-Prince

sta and volunteers Hygiene Promotion Carreour

Relie Distribution Jacmel

Medical personnel

Croatian Red Cross Croatian Red Cross Mass Sanitation Logne

and volunteers part o

Austrian RC ERUDominican Republic Red Cross sta Relie Distribution Port-au-Prince

Red Cross and volunteers Water Quoi de Bouquet

Health Jacmel

Grenada Red Cross Regional intervention Reporting Port-au-Prince

team delegation Administration

Iranian Red Crescent Iranian RC sta Relie and medical teams Port-au-Prince

Relie Distribution

Mobile Clinics

Irish Red Cross Communications Beneciary Communications Port-au-Prince

delegateMexican Red Cross Mexican RC sta Relie Distribution Port-au-Prince

and volunteers

South Korean South Korean RC Mass Vaccination Port-au-Prince

Red Cross sta and volunteers Hospital Personnel

Turkish Red Crescent Turkish Red Crescent Relie Distribution Tabarre

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The Fundamental Principles

of the International Red Crossand Red Crescent Movement

Humanity

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement,

born o a desire to bring assistance without discrimination

to the wounded on the battleeld, endeavours, in its in-

ternational and national capacity, to prevent and alleviate

human suering wherever it may be ound. Its purpose is

to protect lie and health and to ensure respect or the hu-

man being. It promotes mutual understanding, riendship,

cooperation and lasting peace amongst all peoples.

Impartiality

It makes no discrimination as to nationality, race, religious

belies, class or political opinions. It endeavours to relieve

the suering o individuals, being guided solely by their

needs, and to give priority to the most urgent cases o

distress.

Neutrality

In order to enjoy the condence o all, the Movement

may not take sides in hostilities or engage at any time incontroversies o a political, racial, religious or ideological

nature.

Independence

The Movement is independent. The National Societ-

ies, while auxiliaries in the humanitarian services o their

governments and subject to the laws o their respective

countries, must always maintain their autonomy so that

they may be able at all times to act in accordance with the

principles o the Movement.

Voluntary service

It is a voluntary relie movement not prompted in any

manner by desire or gain.

Unity

There can be only one Red Cross or Red Crescent Soci-

ety in any one country. It must be open to all. It must carry

on its humanitarian work throughout its territory.

Universality

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Move-ment, in which all societies have equal status and share

equal responsibilities and duties in helping each other, is

worldwide.


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The International Federation o

Red Cross and Red CrescentSocieties promotes the

humanitarian activities o National

Societies among vulnerablepeople.

By coordinating international

disaster relie and encouragingdevelopment support it seeks

to prevent and alleviate humansuering.

The International Federation,the National Societies and the

International Committee othe Red Cross together constitute

the International Red Cross andRed Crescent Movement.

Haiti: from tragedy to opportunityA publication from the International Federationof Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

For more inormation, please contact:

IFRC Americas [email protected]

IFRC Geneva [email protected]

Media service duty phoneTel: + 41 79 416 38 81Email: [email protected]

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