This report covers the period 1 January to 30 June 2010.
In brief
Programme outcome: The aim of the International Federation is to coordinate and support efforts at country and regional level to assist South Asian national societies to scale up their work to improve the lives of vulnerable people.
Programme(s) summary: The focus of the South Asia regional programmes continues to be to work towards and integrated programming approach to cross-cutting issues. In disaster management, the programme continued to scale up disaster management/disaster risk reduction (DRR) approaches to improve the quality of national societies' community based preparedness and mitigation capacities that include issues on recovery, emergency health and climate change under the "building safer communities" umbrella.
During the reporting period, the regional health team focused on scaling up of community-based health and first aid activities and rolling out the global community-based health and first aid (CBHFA) in action across the region. The regional HIV programme has created a common approach to respond to HIV in the region and contributed to the commitment of all South Asia national societies.
Organizational development continued the strategy of country specific tailor-made support which included support to the strategic planning process in Pakistan, input into developing an activity aimed at strengthening the resource mobilisation capacity of branches in India, recently to commit support to the operational alliance (light) on organisational development in Nepal and a feasibility study for the MaldivianRed Crescent Society (MRCS) building headquarters and income generation potential, strategic planningand human resource review in the Maldives.
Humanitarian values: To map all the activities by the national societies promoting the principles and values of the Red Cross Red Crescent to assist in understanding and sharing humanitarian values in practise.
