Resolution 5 : The safety and security of humanitarian volunteers | Power of humanity: Red Cross Red Crescent

National Society

Name, position and email of the focal person3

Roberta FUSACCHIA
Volunteers and Training
roberta.fusacchia@cri.it

1. What did your National Society do to provide volunteers with the best safety and security coverage?

2. What measures has your National Society taken to review potential threats to the volunteers?
Ensuring that their plans and programmes include measures to reduce and mitigate these risks / - Veiller à ce que ses plans et programmes comprennent des mesures de réduction et d’atténuation des risques / - la garantía de que en los respectivos planes y programas se incluyen medidas para reducir y mitigar esos riesgos

3. Public authorities

Other partners and stakeholders of influence

4. Does your National Society ensure that volunteers have adequate insurance or equivalent “safety net” assistance with regard to death, injury, sickness or trauma they may endure while carrying out their duties?
Yes

Please let us know what type of insurance or equivalent "safety-net" form you use

The ItRC ensures that all volunteers have an adequate insurance (done through INA Assitalia) covering death, injury, sickness and trauma.

5. How can the RCRC movement better support you to enhance the safety and security of your volunteers?

The sharing of best practices and existing tools (training modula, role play scenarios, etc) from other National Societies on safety and security could be of support to the work already in progress.

6. What support did you provide to other National Societies for increasing safety and security of volunteers?
Training, Develop standards and guidance on the topic

7. What activities have you undertaken to facilitate partnerships towards strengthening the safety and security of volunteers?

The ItRC is enhancing safety and security of volunteers through:
- specific training about security, health and safety measures for volunteers involved in international operations and projects (eg. EVRECA! and BE DRIN projects);
- disseminating specific policies on health, safety and security internationally, both to National Societies and Government deploying volunteers for civil protection and humanitarian aid purposes (such as during the implementation of BE DRIN project);
- development of specific guidelines, also about security, for volunteers and volunteers organisations engaged in emergency response in case of multiple multi-casualty Incidents, both caused by natural or man-made disasters and deliberate attacks against civilians (as defined by the MERCI project)
- together with the Palestinian RC, the ItRC started in 2005 the implementation of the PSS program. Both National Societies, together with other PNS operating in the area, implemented the same project with the NS of Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan.

8. What measures did you take to ensure that volunteers have adequate insurance or equivalent “safety net” assistance with regard to death, injury, sickness or trauma they may endure while carrying out their duties?

The ItRC volunteers have both a specific insurance coverage and training on health and safety issues. Moreover, for all the personnel operating abroad the ItRC National Emergency Operation Center (SON - Sala Operativa Nazionale) operates as permanent safety and security focal point.

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