Report a Concern to PRCS. Email us at whistleblow@prcs.org.pk
Report a Concern to PRCS. Email us at whistleblow@prcs.org.pk
Report a Concern to PRCS. Email us at whistleblow@prcs.org.pk
Report a Concern to PRCS. Email us at whistleblow@prcs.org.pk
Prepare, Respond, Recover: Building Resilience Together
Pakistan Red Crescent Society has a rich of disaster response. Yet the growing scale and frequency of disasters pose new challenges. Mere response is insufficient; we must focus on prevention, preparation, and recovery to build resilience. The climate crisis is no longer distant but immediate, impacting vulnerable communities with loss of lives and livelihoods, hunger, displacement and exploitation. Pakistan is increasingly affected, with families losing homes and incomes to severe flooding and heatwaves, leading to perilous conditions.
By 2030, PRCS aims to enhance its capacity to provide effective humanitarian assistance in emergencies and reach communities in all vulnerable districts with services to response, recover and prepare.
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Broad Priority Areas of Disaster Management
Disaster Response
(Preparedness for response, response and recovery)
PRCS seeks to ensure that its support is effectively directed to alleviating suffering of the most vulnerable and develop mechanisms for targeted support through post disaster relief and recovery interventions.
PRCS ensures transparency during relief and recovery for goods by adhering the actions like SPHERE Standards, IFRC Code of Conduct, and Movement Principles, etc.
Key activities include:
1. Preparedness for Effective Response
2. Strengthening Response Mechanism through disaster response teams
3. Engaging volunteer workforce for affective disaster response
4. Restoring Family Links & including migrants in response during disasters
5. Providing health and care services during emergencies
6. Water , Sanitation and Hygiene
7. Risk Assessment and Safer Response
8. Cash and Voucher Assistance
9. Humanitarian Support
10. Quality Assurance, Trust and Accountability
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) /Resilience
In the backdrop of achieving the Global and National commitments, the PRCS also recognizes and acknowledges DRR/Resilience as an integral part of the disaster management program.
This includes continued support in building resilience through awareness raising activities, regular trainings, conducting risk assessment using Enhanced Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (EVCA) tools,
developing DRR plans, integrating DRR into all future community level structural interventions including Early Warning Systems (EWS).
Key activities include:
1. Strengthening Disaster Risk Governance
2. Enhanced Vulnerability & Capacity Assessment
3. Promoting Training, Education & Awareness Raising
4. Strengthening Community Resilience
5. Strengthening Early Warning System at Community level
6. Promotion and Adaptation of Resilience-Enhancing interventions
7. Developing Disaster Risk Reduction Plans at Various levels
8. Developing Capacities in Climate Change Adaptation
9. School safety Program
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EXPLORE OUR WORK IN DISASTERS
PRCS Historic Monsoon Flood 2022
Response & Recovery Phase Highlights
210,500
Households provided Food Packs Hot Meal for 200,750 People
629,548
Essential Household Items including 417,771 Hygiene Kits
33,821
Family Tents have been Distributed 257,005 People Reached
16,300
Shelter toolkit with Tarpaulin Sheets 70,056 People Reached
304,501
Patients Treated Through 30 MHUs
28.5 M
Litres of Safe Drinking Water Produced Around 42,000 Beneficiaries
205,640
People Reached Through Health, WASH and Hygiene Promotion Sessions
3,124
Individuals were Provided First Aid Services
39,800
Household Provided with Cash Grants (During response & Recovery Phase)
1,700
Households Provided with Restoring Family Links Services 10,200 Reached
840
Livelihood Supports including Buffaloes & Cows Distributed Households.
5,000
Plans to construct Permanent Model Houses Technnical Evaluation
PRCS' History of Responses
1947 - 48
Refugee Camps - Relief items provided to 700,000 migrants in Karachi & Lahore
1965 - 73
Indo-Pak Wars - 10 million family messages were exchanged by PRCS between Prisoners of Wars and their families
1974
Floods - Conducted Red Crescent Colonies (300 houses) in Sindh, KPK and Punjab for the rehabilitation of affectees.
1980 - 81
Afghan Refugees - Relief and Health services provided to the 0.4 mil. Afghan refugees.
1997-98
Drought - Food and Non-Food Items distributed in drought-ridden areas.
2005
Earthquake - Relief provided to over 3.3 million beneficiaries.
2006 - 2008
Establishing disaster Management system in PRCS (at National /Provincial/State/ District) in the form of DM Cells
2008-2010
2010-2012
2013-2014
2015-2019
2020-2021
Overall Responses
33,821
Family Tents have been Distributed 257,005 People Reached
39,800
Household Provided with Cash Grants (During response & Recovery Phase)
304,501
Patients Treated Through 30 MHUs
210,500
Households provided Food Packs Hot Meal for 200,750 People
1,700
Households Provided with Restoring Family Links Services 10,200 Reached
1,700
Households Provided with Restoring Family Links Services 10,200 Reached
Our Gallery
Activity: Disaster Risk Awareness Session
Location: Muzaffarabad, AJK
Activity: Construction of Flood Protection Wall
Location: Reshun valley, Chitral, KP
Activity: School Retrofitting
Location: Dadu, Sindh
Activity: Distribution of Hygiene Kits
Location: Badin, Sindh
Activity: Distribution of Relief Items
Location: Larkana, Sindh
Activity: Chairman PRCS distributing relief items to flood affected people
Location: Badin, Sindh
Activity: Disaster Risk Awareness Session
Location: Muzaffarabad, AJK
Activity: Construction of Flood Protection Wall
Location: Reshun valley, Chitral, KP
Activity: School Retrofitting
Location: Dadu, Sindh
Activity: Distribution of Hygiene Kits
Location: Badin, Sindh
Activity: Distribution of Relief Items
Location: Larkana, Sindh
Activity: Chairman PRCS distributing relief items to flood affected people
Location: Badin, Sindh
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