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

Gabriela Poller-Hartig, International Relations; gabriela.poller-hartig@roteskreuz.at

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

Trainings for volunteers in cooperation with the Austrian police (deescalation trainings); Safety and security of volunteers are also a part of regularily hold exercises.

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

public insurance for accidents, privat insurance for accidents and medical evacuations, liability insurance

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

6. What support did you provide to other National Societies for increasing safety and security of volunteers?
Training, Support to drafting policy on volunteering

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

cross border trainings; co-funded capacity building projects

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?

According to the Austrian law, each volunteer has to have adequate insurance. So ARC provides the adequate insurance for every volunteer within the ARC.

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