A concept that has been around for some time and expanding in terms of scope is the protection of the rights of people who are forced to leave their homes due to disasters and crises. It can be argued that the scope of protection should be expanded, both in theory and practice, to include forced…
2021 was a challenging year for humanity. While conflicts, climate change, and diseases continue increasing humanitarian needs, the Turkish Red Crescent selflessly directed its efforts to meet those needs in large areas. Unfortunately, the future does not seem bright. According to the United Nations Global Humanitarian Overview, the number of individuals in need of humanitarian…
Throughout its 153-year history, the Turkish Red Crescent has managed its real estate, mainly acquired through donations, with an effective system. The real estate management system, whose rental income is a source for humanitarian aid activities of the TRC, was completely revised and restructured in 2021 by adopting a sustainable resource management approach. In this…
The past two decades have been challenging due to natural and human-related crises affecting vulnerable populations and the international community in a broad sense. The Organization of Islamic Coordination (OIC) region was the region that was most affected by large-scale humanitarian crises and disasters, especially throughout the years following World War II, and unfortunately, this…
In addition to the Turkish Red Crescent’s social aid and social empowerment activities, as a national society we responded to disasters such as earthquakes, floods, and fires with our professional personnel and volunteers. Volunteers as a line of human resource has become part of the volunteer management process of NGOs, which follow the public and…
The COVID-19 pandemic and uncertainties around it have become the agenda of the world for the last two years, which increases the burden on NGOs and makes things harder for them. NGOs had to learn their lessons to minimize the unfavorable impacts of the pandemic. The health sector and health institutions had to develop…
The business world is a part of the transformation process the world goes through. Designing the future by solely analyzing spreadsheets is now history. We need to predict the future with what we have learned from the past. Social and economic systems interact with each other more than ever before, and that signals a new…
The Turkish Red Crescent is both a member of an international movement and is an organization that has the largest network of volunteers in Türkiye, an organization with a special place in society, and one which enriches itself with societal dynamics. It is only natural that the expectations from large organizations are big in terms…
Society has established many different types of organizations over the years in order to deal with disasters. Lessons learned from previous disasters have played roles as contributing factors to progress in the development of these models. Lessons learned from the disasters and the great destructions that follow has made it essential to transition from an…
Disaster & Emergency Advisory Board Meetings Tasked with reducing disaster and emergency risks, offering suggestions about activities to be carried out after disasters and emergencies and setting policies and priorities, the Disaster and Emergency Advisory Board held meetings on July 13 and December 30, 2020. Technical evaluations and intervention studies on the earthquakes experienced in…
