Areas of expertise & Fields of activity: |
Population:
Social Development:
- Aging
- Poverty
- Social policy
Sustainable Development:
- Capacity-building
- Demographics
- Disaster management and vulnerability
- International law
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Geographic scope: |
National
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Millennium Development Goals: |
- Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
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Year established (YYYY): |
1885 |
Year of registration (YYYY): |
1950 |
Organizational structure: |
tHE BRC has a four-level organisational structure: 1. Local associations - 2 730; 2. Municipal branches - 269; 3. Regional, resp. Metropolitan level - 28 regional organisations 4. National level The General Assembly is the Supreme organ of BRC. The National Council is the main executive and ruling body. Its members /13 at the moment/ are elected every four years by the General Assembly. The BRC has full-time staff at national and regional level, which forms an administrative-executive body - the Secretariat. |
Number and type of members: |
Number of members – 148 081, number of volunteers in 2014 – 19 454. |
Affiliation with NGO networks: |
Part of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent; full member of AGE Platform Europe |
Funding structure: |
- Membership fees or dues
- Fundraising campaigns
- Grants from Governments
- Donations and grants from domestic sources
- Foreign and international grants
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Social Development
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Activities relevant to the conference of States Parties to the convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: |
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