2021-2025 Goals and Strategy
Through its comprehensive 2021-2025 Strategy. In alignment with other Red Cross family members, this five-year plan focuses on empowering our organization to better assist those in need. A key aspect of this strategy is the promotion of capacity-building for our branches, which will strengthen the National Society’s auxiliary role. By enhancing skills, resources, and community engagement, we aim to improve our crisis response, deliver essential services, and create lasting positive change in the lives of vulnerable populations. Together, we are committed to building a resilient and compassionate society that can effectively tackle the challenges of today and tomorrow.
There will be three Strategic Goals and their key actions as follows:
Strategic Goals And Key Actions
1
- To enhance support for affected communities as a means of helping mitigate the impacts of climate change, health emergencies, disasters, conflicts and situations of violence.
- To strengthen the resilience of communities and fulfil their needs related to health, first aid, water, sanitation and hygine, psychosocial support, disaster risk reduction, climate change, shelter, and livelihoods.
- To ensure MRCS has well-preparedness capacity at all levels for effective response.
2
- To promote understanding and respect for the Red Cross Fundmental Principles, Humanitarian Values, humanitarian diplomacy and IHL at all levels.
- To strengthen National Society information technology and information management capacity at all levels to ensure effective communication of information and reporting in normal times and during emergencies.
- To mainstream gender and diversity, violence prevention, psychosocial support, social inclusion, and community engagement and accountability as cross cutting issues into all humanitarian activities.
3
- To continue developing and strengthening the National Society and its auxiliary status at all levels according to the MRCS existing Law.
- To improve the capacity and systems at state, region, Nay Pyi Taw, council, districts, branches and sub branch levels to better respond to humanitarian needs and more effectively deliver MRCS core services.
- To empower and mobilise Red Cross youth to take a lead and active role in the promotion of humanitarian activities.
- To scale-up resource mobilisation capacity at all levels as a means of becoming an independent, self-sufficient and financially sustainable National Society.
- To support MRCS capacity in organizational management at all levels to ensure improved transparency, accountability, efficiency and effectiveness of services.
- To expand national and international cooperation, coordination and partnership mechanisms through the existing partnership framework.
Through these strategic goals and actions, the Myanmar Red Cross Society aims to enhance its capacity to provide humanitarian support and make a lasting impact on the communities we serve.