World disasters report 2026: truth trust and humanitarian action in the age of harmful information
The report examines how harmful information—ranging from misinformation and disinformation to hate speech, manipulated narratives and AI‑generated synthetic content—has become a systemic threat to humanitarian action, eroding trust, obstructing access and endangering both affected communities and humanitarian personnel. It shows that today’s volatile information ecosystem amplifies fear, polarization and misinformation at unprecedented scale, undermining principled action, fueling social division and weakening public confidence in institutions. Drawing on global evidence, community research and operational case studies, it analyses the actors, dynamics and impacts of harmful information, highlights how digital platforms and AI accelerate its spread, and outlines the vulnerabilities of crisis‑affected populations. It emphasizes that trust, proximity, transparency and community engagement are essential to resilience, and calls for coordinated action across governments, humanitarian organizations, technology companies and communities to strengthen information integrity, improve early warning and response, and safeguard humanitarian space.
Senegal: IFRC Network country plan 2026 to 2027
The document presents how the Senegalese Red Cross Society, supported by the IFRC network, aims to address Senegal’s intersecting humanitarian challenges—including recurring floods, droughts, food insecurity, public health risks, migration pressures, and climate‑driven environmental degradation—by scaling up disaster preparedness, climate adaptation and nature‑based solutions, while strengthening early‑warning systems and community resilience. It highlights efforts to expand health services, community‑based surveillance, WASH activities, mental health and psychosocial support, and nutrition outreach, especially for vulnerable groups affected by climate shocks and socio‑economic instability. The plan emphasizes support for migrants and returnees through humanitarian service points, livelihood assistance and protection initiatives, alongside measures to reduce inequalities, promote social inclusion, and reinforce systems for safeguarding, gender equality and youth engagement. At the same time, it outlines organizational development priorities such as digital transformation, financial sustainability, volunteer management, stronger coordination with authorities and Movement partners, and enhanced accountability mechanisms to ensure effective, people‑centred humanitarian action across Senegal.
Baphalali Eswatini: IFRC Network country plan 2026 to 2028
The document outlines how the Baphalali Eswatini Red Cross Society, supported by the IFRC network, plans to address Eswatini’s overlapping humanitarian needs arising from climate‑driven shocks, chronic food insecurity, recurring droughts and storms, public health vulnerabilities, and deep social inequalities. It describes efforts to strengthen community resilience through nature‑based climate adaptation, anticipatory action, early‑warning systems, disaster‑risk reduction, and expanded cash‑based and livelihood support, while improving health outcomes by integrating community health volunteers into primary care, strengthening surveillance, expanding WASH services, and addressing HIV, NCDs, mental health and malnutrition. The plan also emphasizes inclusive protection, youth engagement, disability‑inclusive programming, and violence prevention, alongside investments in volunteer development, branch strengthening, financial sustainability, and digital transformation to enhance the National Society’s capacity to deliver accountable, community‑driven, and well‑coordinated humanitarian assistance across Eswatini.
Bhutan: IFRC Network country plan 2026 to 2028
The document outlines how the Bhutan Red Cross Society plans to strengthen national resilience to disasters, climate‑related risks and health challenges by expanding community‑based preparedness, improving early‑warning systems and enhancing volunteer capacity across all districts. It highlights Bhutan’s vulnerability to earthquakes, landslides, glacial lake outburst floods, and extreme weather, emphasizing the need for climate adaptation, youth‑led climate action and stronger institutional systems. Alongside disaster management, the plan prioritizes community health through first aid, disease surveillance, mental‑health support, blood‑donation services and inclusive WASH initiatives, while addressing rising non‑communicable diseases and mental‑health concerns. It also underscores commitments to protection, gender and inclusion, youth leadership, humanitarian values, strengthened governance, digital transformation and financial sustainability to ensure accountable, people‑centered humanitarian services nationwide.
Bosnia and Herzegovina: IFRC Network country plan 2026 to 2028
The document outlines how the Red Cross Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina, supported by the IFRC network, plans to strengthen its humanitarian response amid the country’s complex political context, ageing population, economic instability and exposure to climate‑related hazards such as floods, landslides, wildfires and extreme weather. It details efforts to improve disaster preparedness, early‑warning systems, community‑based risk reduction and digitalized emergency logistics, while expanding work on first aid, home‑based care, mental health and psychosocial support, and health services for older people and vulnerable groups. The plan emphasizes support to migrants transiting the Western Balkan route through targeted assistance in reception centres and urban areas, alongside initiatives promoting protection, inclusion, youth engagement, humanitarian education and stronger governance systems. It also highlights the need to enhance resource mobilization, volunteer management, partnerships and institutional development to ensure more coordinated, accountable and community‑centred humanitarian action across the country.
Botswana: IFRC Network country plan 2026 to 2028
The document outlines how the Botswana Red Cross Society, supported by the IFRC network, plans to address the country’s rising humanitarian needs driven by climate‑related hazards, prolonged drought, unpredictable flooding, and increasing food insecurity, while also responding to structural health challenges such as high rates of non‑communicable diseases, HIV, and mental‑health needs. It describes efforts to strengthen community resilience through climate‑smart livelihoods, disaster‑preparedness systems, anticipatory action, and improved early‑warning mechanisms, along with expanded primary healthcare promotion, first aid, WASH services, and psychosocial support. The plan emphasizes inclusive and protective approaches for vulnerable groups—including migrants, people with disabilities, children and survivors of gender‑based violence—while investing in volunteer engagement, branch development, digital transformation, and stronger partnerships with government, civil society and international actors to improve coordination, accountability and long‑term sustainability of humanitarian services across Botswana.
Brazil: IFRC Network country plan 2026 to 2028
The document outlines how the Brazilian Red Cross, supported by the IFRC network, aims to strengthen humanitarian response and institutional resilience amid growing climate‑related disasters, public‑health challenges, and ongoing governance difficulties. It highlights Brazil’s exposure to recurrent floods, droughts, fires, and disease outbreaks, along with deep social and territorial inequalities that affect access to health services, protection, and livelihoods. The plan focuses on rebuilding and stabilizing the National Society, enhancing branch structures, improving emergency preparedness, expanding primary health care, first aid, vector‑borne disease prevention, and psychosocial support, while also supporting migrants through coordinated, route‑based assistance. It emphasizes the need for stronger protection and inclusion measures, improved accountability systems, revitalized governance, and more effective coordination with government, international partners, and communities to ensure a more capable, transparent, and sustainable humanitarian organization.
Burundi: IFRC Network country plan 2026 to 2028
The document presents how the Burundi Red Cross, supported by the IFRC network, plans to address the country’s severe and overlapping humanitarian challenges—including climate‑driven disasters, disease outbreaks, food insecurity, protracted displacement and structural poverty—by strengthening disaster preparedness, early‑warning systems, and locally led climate‑resilience initiatives while expanding community‑based health, WASH services and epidemic preparedness. It highlights Burundi’s vulnerability to floods, landslides, droughts and environmental degradation, the impact of recurrent epidemics such as cholera and Mpox, and the pressures created by large‑scale internal displacement and inflows of refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The plan prioritizes reinforcing community response structures, supporting climate‑smart livelihoods, improving access to essential health and nutrition services, protecting vulnerable groups—including women, children and displaced people—and enhancing social cohesion. It also focuses on institutional strengthening through volunteer development, digital transformation, improved governance, and stronger partnerships to ensure more accountable, coordinated and sustainable humanitarian action across the country.
Comoros: IFRC Network country plan 2026 to 2028
The document outlines how the Comoros Red Crescent, supported by the IFRC network, aims to strengthen humanitarian response and long‑term resilience in a country highly exposed to cyclones, floods, droughts, volcanic risks and climate‑driven environmental degradation. It emphasizes reinforcing disaster preparedness, early‑warning systems and community‑based risk reduction while expanding climate‑smart and nature‑based initiatives such as watershed restoration, reforestation and coastal ecosystem protection. The plan also prioritizes improved access to health and WASH services, enhanced epidemic preparedness following cholera outbreaks, and local health‑promotion efforts, alongside protection and support for people on the move amid risky maritime migration patterns. Additionally, it highlights institutional development—volunteer mobilisation, digital transformation, stronger governance, financial sustainability and community engagement—to ensure more accountable, coordinated and inclusive humanitarian assistance throughout the Comoros.
Croatia: IFRC Network country plan 2026 to 2028
The document outlines how the Croatian Red Cross, supported by the IFRC network, plans to strengthen national resilience in the face of demographic decline, increasing climate‑related hazards and evolving humanitarian needs. It highlights efforts to improve disaster preparedness, expand climate‑resilience initiatives, and enhance community awareness on environmental risks, while addressing persistent challenges such as floods, wildfires, heatwaves and earthquakes. The plan places strong emphasis on health and wellbeing through expanded psychosocial support, first aid training, social services for older people and people with disabilities, and continued promotion of voluntary blood donation. It also details support for migrants and displaced people along the Balkan route through humanitarian assistance, protection activities and integration support, as well as broader commitments to inclusion, youth engagement, protection from violence and strengthened governance systems. Overall, it presents a roadmap to reinforce community‑level preparedness, institutional capacity, digital transformation and partnerships to ensure more effective, equitable and people‑centred humanitarian action across Croatia.
Cuba: IFRC Network country plan 2026 to 2028
The document outlines how the Cuban Red Cross, supported by the IFRC network, plans to enhance its ability to respond to increasingly complex humanitarian needs driven by climate‑related hazards, economic pressures, health emergencies and migration dynamics. It highlights Cuba’s high exposure to hurricanes, floods, droughts and rising sea levels, alongside recurrent disease outbreaks and technological risks, and describes efforts to strengthen disaster preparedness, early‑warning systems, climate‑smart programming and community‑based resilience initiatives. The plan also emphasizes safeguarding universal access to health, WASH services and psychosocial support, improving local epidemic‑preparedness capacities and expanding community‑health programming. In addition, it prioritizes assistance and protection for migrants arriving by sea or displaced internally, while advancing inclusion, gender and protection initiatives and investing in stronger governance, volunteer development, and institutional systems to ensure more accountable, coordinated and sustainable humanitarian action across the country.
Georgia: IFRC Network country plan 2026 to 2028
The document outlines how the Georgia Red Cross Society, supported by the IFRC network, plans to strengthen its humanitarian action amid increasing climate‑related hazards, demographic pressures, health challenges and complex migration dynamics. It highlights the country’s exposure to floods, landslides, droughts, heatwaves and earthquakes, alongside growing socio‑economic vulnerabilities, an ageing population, high food insecurity in rural areas and the continued impact of internal displacement and regional population movements. The plan emphasizes expanding climate‑smart and community‑led adaptation, improving disaster preparedness, scaling anticipatory action and reinforcing local response capacities through trained volunteers, cash assistance and early‑warning systems. It also prioritizes inclusive community health services, home‑based care, mental health and psychosocial support, and strengthened epidemic preparedness. Support for migrants, displaced people and families of the missing is further developed through restoring family links, humanitarian service provision and protection measures. The document additionally focuses on institutional development, digital transformation, youth and volunteer engagement, strengthened governance, expanded partnerships and humanitarian diplomacy to ensure more accountable, resilient and people‑centred humanitarian services across Georgia.
Azerbaijan: IFRC Network country plan 2026 to 2028
The document outlines how the Red Crescent Society of Azerbaijan, supported by the IFRC network, plans to address the country’s evolving humanitarian challenges—ranging from recurrent natural hazards, climate‑driven risks and environmental degradation to long‑term displacement, public health needs and growing social vulnerabilities. It describes efforts to strengthen disaster preparedness, early‑warning systems, community‑based risk reduction and response capacity, particularly in areas affected by conflict, mines and ongoing resettlement initiatives. The plan highlights expanded work in health, including mental health and psychosocial support, first aid, epidemic preparedness and promotion of healthy lifestyles, alongside greater support for refugees, migrants and internally displaced persons through integration services and tailored assistance. It also emphasizes inclusion, protection, youth engagement and education initiatives, while prioritizing institutional development through digital transformation, stronger financial systems, branch development and deeper partnerships with government, Movement actors and international organizations to enhance long‑term resilience and community‑centred humanitarian action across Azerbaijan.
Honduras: IFRC Network country plan 2026 to 2028
The document outlines how the Honduran Red Cross, supported by the IFRC network, intends to strengthen its humanitarian response in a context marked by extreme climate vulnerability, widespread poverty, high rates of violence, and complex migration dynamics. It describes Honduras’ exposure to hurricanes, floods, droughts, landslides and heatwaves—events increasingly intensified by climate change—as well as chronic social challenges such as food insecurity, fragile health systems, and significant protection risks for women, children, migrants and people with disabilities. The plan prioritizes scaling up climate‑smart disaster risk reduction, anticipatory action, and community‑level resilience; improving access to equitable health, WASH and psychosocial services; enhancing support for migrants, returnees and people displaced by violence or climate impacts; and integrating protection, inclusion and community engagement across all programming. It also emphasizes institutional strengthening through digital transformation, improved coordination, youth and volunteer development, stronger governance systems and long‑term partnerships to ensure more effective, accountable and sustainable humanitarian action nationwide.
Jordan: IFRC Network country plan 2026 to 2028
The document outlines how the Jordan National Red Crescent Society, supported by the IFRC network, aims to address Jordan’s intersecting challenges of protracted displacement, deepening socio‑economic vulnerability, climate‑related pressures and strain on public services. It highlights Jordan’s position as one of the world’s most refugee‑hosting countries, facing rising poverty, unemployment and extreme water scarcity, while also being exposed to hazards such as earthquakes, flash floods and droughts. The plan prioritizes strengthened disaster preparedness, climate adaptation, and community resilience; expanded access to primary and emergency healthcare through hospitals, clinics and mobile units; improved WASH services; and sustained support to refugees, migrants, and Gaza evacuees. It also emphasizes social cohesion, protection, gender and inclusion, youth engagement, and restoring family links, alongside institutional development through enhanced volunteer management, digital transformation, stronger governance and humanitarian diplomacy to ensure coordinated, principled and impactful humanitarian action across Jordan.
Kenya: IFRC Network country plan 2026 to 2028
The document outlines how the Kenya Red Cross Society, supported by the IFRC network, plans to address the country’s overlapping humanitarian challenges, including recurrent droughts and floods, widespread food insecurity, disease outbreaks, climate‑related shocks and large‑scale displacement. It highlights Kenya’s high vulnerability to extreme weather events, chronic water scarcity and growing malnutrition, alongside pressures created by hosting more than 800,000 refugees and rising internal displacement. The plan emphasizes strengthening climate‑smart disaster risk reduction, anticipatory action and community resilience; expanding emergency response capacities; improving access to healthcare, nutrition and WASH services; and supporting livelihoods through food security initiatives and cash assistance. It also focuses on protection, gender and inclusion, youth engagement, migration support, restoring family links and addressing the needs of marginalized groups. Institutional development—including branch strengthening, digital transformation, accountability systems, humanitarian diplomacy and improved coordination—is prioritized to ensure an agile, community‑driven and sustainable humanitarian response across Kenya.
Kazakhstan: IFRC Network country plan 2026 to 2028
The document describes how the Red Crescent Society of Kazakhstan, together with the IFRC network, plans to address the country’s growing humanitarian needs driven by climate change, recurring disasters, social vulnerability and health risks. It highlights Kazakhstan’s exposure to droughts, floods, extreme temperatures, land degradation and water scarcity, as well as its challenges with rising non‑communicable diseases, TB, HIV, ageing demographics, migration pressures and economic inequality. The plan focuses on strengthening climate adaptation, early warning systems, disaster preparedness, and local response capacity; expanding health and first aid services; improving access to safe water and sustainable livelihoods; supporting migrants and displaced people; and advancing community engagement, protection, gender inclusion and social cohesion. It also emphasizes organizational development, digital transformation, volunteer mobilization, resource mobilization and stronger humanitarian diplomacy to ensure a more resilient, inclusive and future‑ready National Society capable of responding to evolving risks across Kazakhstan.