International Rescue Committee Annual Report 2017

In 2017, the IRC and its partners:

International Programs:

• Helped nearly 23 million people access primary health care.
• Provided 1.14 million children with schooling and education opportunities.
• Trained 44,670 educators and supported 10,791 schools.
• Trained 21,273 people on child protection, gender-based violence and protection principles and service delivery.
• Reached 1,231,864 people with awareness raising and prevention efforts on human rights, gender-based violence and protection.
• Provided counseling, care, health and/or legal services to 33,261 children, 37,878 gender-based violence survivors and 74,144 individuals requiring specific legal assistance.
• Provided support through safe spaces to 135,598 children and 116,580 women and girls.
• Provided parenting support to 18,524 caregivers.
• In 32 countries, 366,500 households benefited from IRC’s economic recovery and development programs and those of its partner organizations.
• Provided cash and asset transfers to 179,491 households of refugees and vulnerable people.
• Helped create or support 16,179 businesses, 73 percent of which were female-owned.
• Provided job-related skills training to more than 39,043 people.
• Created or supported 1,278 village savings and loan associations that benefited 31,767 members who saved $1,294,144.72.
• Helped more than 4,000 people access financial services.
• Trained 19,616 farmers in agriculture and agribusiness, and provided 19,037 farmers with access to markets and farm resources including seeds and fertilizers.

US Programs:

• Helped more than 31,000 refugees, asylees and other immigrants with supportive programs.
• Helped 10,665 refugees and special immigrant visa recipients resettle in the United States.
• Helped 1,146 individuals through the Intensive Case Management program, which provides extended support for the most at-risk refugees including those with medical or mental health issues.
• Supported 5,342 refugees to resettle in the U.S. through the Resettlement Support Center in East Asia.
• Helped reunite hundreds of families by filing 663 Affidavit of Relationships for 1,200 immediate relatives in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras through the Central America Minors program.
• Across our network of offices in the U.S, more than 5,200 volunteers supported the work of the IRC.
• Screened 670 women across 7 offices for experiences of domestic violence through the Bridge to Safety project.
• Helped to create 134 refugee-owned small businesses and provide nearly $500,000 in small business loans through the IRC’s Microenterprise Development program.
• Through the IRC’s META Project, we provided one-on-one technical assistance to 20 refugee service providers and partners to help improve their programs’ monitoring and evaluation.
• Across four IRC offices, we helped 245 cases of unaccompanied children by providing them with education, legal services, mental health support and medical services.
• Served 1,700 clients through our financial capability programs across 10 offices.
• Served 3,514 individuals through the Matching Grant program.