DFID Partnership Programme Arrangement with British Red Cross

BRCS PPA is intended to increase the impact of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in helping individuals and communities to better prepare for, withstand and recover from crises, emergencies and disasters. The intended outcome is strengthening Red Cross Movement capacity to provide emergency response and build resilience. BRCS is working to achieve this through four outputs:
1. Strengthened delegate pools of emergency response and early recovery specialists and national and regional response mechanisms and capacities.
2. Improved understanding of integrated approaches to resilience in six partner Red Cross Societies.
3. Wider promotion of IHL, humanitarian diplomacy and humanitarian principles.
4. Bespoke international programme management methodology and programme and information management systems rolled out and in use by BRCS and key partners.
The outputs represent the work of all four programmatic departments of BRCS International Division (International Law, Humanitarian Policy, Disaster Management and Partnership Development) and in addition the Performance and Accountability Department. Some outputs are supporting long-term processes to achieve change, e.g. in the promotion of IHL. Others focus on one link in a long-chain of activities which eventually impact on vulnerable people's lives, e.g. the development of the delegate pool. The IPR focused primarily on the progress towards results, relevance, effectiveness and efficiency at the output level. Key findings are presented below.