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    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. >

    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

  • National Disaster Response Task Force
  • Contingency Plans
  • CBDRR projects
  • DM Policy & Strategy
  • 2010-2012

  • Floods – Super Floods – 2010
  • Concept of Integrated Recovery Programme
  • 2013-2014

  • Execution of Integrated Risk Reduction programme (ICBRR) DRECE
  • Emergency Response SoPs
  • 2015-2019

  • Cash transfer programming
  • School Safety
  • Emergency Appeals
  • DREFs
  • 2020-2021

  • Urban Resilience
  • Pandemic Response
  • PRCs revised DRM policy
  • EWS framework
  • Revision of SCR
  • 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

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