Increased community resilience to health hazards especially for women and children Communities and Red Cross staff and volunteers prevent health hazards and provide care and assistance in case of health hazards impacting the lives and well-being of the most vulnerable, resulting in increased community resilience to health hazards especially for women and children BRC-Fl has a unique combination of 4 niche expertise areas First Aid (FA), Blood Banking (BB), WASH and Disaster Preparedness (DP)), each contributing to tackling a set of (non-)communicable, maternal and neonatal diseases or injuries. These expertise areas are complementary to each other and allow our program to address the overall health burden in our target area, resulting in reduced morbidity and mortality, through increased community resilience, especially for women & children.

The program focusses on three intervention levels to reach this ultimate goal. First, we will focus on prevention and mitigation of health hazards. Second, when the hazard has occurred, BRC-Fl will have empowered communities to take care of themselves and others through community care, and third, the Mozambique Red Cross (CVM) and the national blood service will be reinforced in their capacity to effectively prepare for and respond to health hazards. Community members living in (mostly rural) areas impacted by health-hazards in target area(s). As per RC mandate, a special focus goes to the most vulnerable groups in the community (women and children, elderly, disabled persons, …).

CVM staff and volunteers living in those communities and increasing resilience through service provision.

CVM and Blood Service staff contributing to the institutional capacity necessary to support the health of communities.