Indonesian Red Cross : Improve Safety and Access for National Society and Health Care Personnel

• Our National Society will continue to increase our acceptance, safety and security, and access to ensure our personnel’s (board member, staff and volunteers) safety while delivering assistance, in order to reach community in need of humanitarian assistance. To support our effort, we will review our SOPs, curriculum, and contingency plan, implement stress management program and provide Personnel Protective Equipment for all our responders including our health care teams.
• Our National Society will increase our capacity in dissemination and IHL to enable us providing training/sensitization on the protection of emblems. We will seek cooperation with identified stakeholders to promote rights and responsibilities of health care personnel to health care students and other relevant audiences including media and civil society actors.

Action plan

• Implementing plan of action as identified in SAF Assessment and Planning Workshop.
• Integrating elements of Safer Access  into related SOPs and curricula (ambulance, First Aid, Medical Action Team, Basic Health Care, First Responder, Nursing in Disaster and other services guidelines) based on our context and needs.
• Regularly updating our contingency plans based on current context and lessons learned of its implementation.
• Sensitizing and implementing PMI Personnel Code of Conduct to all PMI personnel.
• Integrating stress management guidelines (PSP, briefing and debriefing)  our operation management.
• Ensuring that all personnel that are deployed in emergency are equipped with Personnel Protection Equipment.
• Developing Communication Strategy.
• Increasing our dissemination capacity (including IHL capacity, mapping current capacity, reviewing our curricula, and producing development plan).
• Conducting a session of workshop/seminar with identified stakeholders related to protection of health care in emergency in collaboration with Crisis Center Ministry of Health.
• Providing trainings/sensitization  together with identified stakeholders to universities, media and civil society in priority areas.