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Rwanda-East Blue Cross

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Human Rights Humanitarian Affairs Refugees Violence Volunteerism Water Women Women/gender Equality Youth Financing for Development: Addressing systemic issues External debt Increasing financial and technical cooperation for development International Cooperation in Tax Matters International Trade as an engine for development Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development Mobilizing international resources for development Gender Issues and Advancement of Women: Advocacy and outreach Capacity building Education and training of women Human rights of women Indigenous women Information and communication technologies Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women Men and boys Millennium Development Goals Policy advice Research Service provision The girl child Trafficking in women and girls Violence against women Women and HIV/AIDS Women and armed conflict Women and health Women and poverty Women and the economy Women and the environment Women and the media Women and the media Women in power and decision-making Population: International migration Morbidity and mortality Population distribution and internal migration Population growth Population structure Reproduction, family formation and the status of women Public Administration: Ethics, Transparency and Accountability Governance and Public Administration Knowledge Systems and E-government Public Financial Management Public Service and Management Innovation Socio-Economic Governance and Management Social Development: Aging Conflict Cooperative Disabled persons Employment Indigenous issues Information and Communications Technologies Poverty Social policy Technical cooperation Youth Statistics: Civil registration systems Country or region codes Crime and criminal justice statistics Demographic and social surveys Development indicators Disability Statistics Environmental Accounts Geographical names Household Statistics Informal Sector Statistics International Comparison Programme International Economic and Social Classifications International migration Labour and Compensation Methodological publications in statistics National accounting Official statistics, principles and practices Population and housing censuses Poverty statistics Price and Quantity Statistics Services Statistics Social Statistics and Social Monitoring Statistical activities classification Statistics on international trade in services Time-use statistics Sustainable Development: Agriculture Atmosphere Biodiversity Biotechnology Capacity-building Climate change Consumption and production patterns Demographics Desertification and Drought Disaster management and vulnerability Education Energy Finance Forests Freshwater Gender equality Health Human settlements Indicators Industrial development Information for decision-making and participation Institutional arrangements Integrated decision-making International cooperation for an enabling environment International law Land management Major Groups Marine Resources Means of Implementation (Trade, Finance, Technology, Tranfer, etc.) Mining Mountains Oceans and seas Partnerships Poverty Protecting and managing the natural resources Rural Development Sanitation Science Sustainable Tourism Sustainable development for Africa Sustainable development in a globalizing world Sustainable development of SIDS Technology Toxic chemicals Trade and environment Transport Waste (hazardous) Waste (radioactive) Waste (solid) Waste Management
Geographic scope:	International
Country of activity:	Rwanda
Millennium Development Goals:	Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Achieve universal primary education Promote gender equality and empower women Reduce child mortality Improve maternal health Ensure environmental sustainability Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:	Rwanda-East Blue Cross is part of the International Blue Cross & Blue Crescent movement, and is the provincial delegation of the Rwanda Blue Cross and organises the humanitarian activities of the Rwanda Blue Cross, under the direction of the Central African Blue Cross Regional Directorate. The Rwanda Blue Cross national delegation represents Rwanda on the Global Committee of the International Blue Cross & Blue Crescent. The International Blue Cross & Blue Crescent® (IBC) movement, is an international, non-profit, charitable, non-governmental, politically and religiously neutral humanitarian organisation with headquarters in the United Kingdom. IBC was created to enable all interested humanitarian workers to offer their skills in service of humanity, in particularly to enable all interested humanitarian medical and healthcare professionals to offer their skills as humanitarian medics for the promotion of humanitarian community public health, to poverty regions, disaster stricken or disaster vulnerable regions, to enable all interested humanitarian rescue workers to offer their skills in those disaster stricken regions, and to provide education programs in disaster awareness, preparation & prevention, survival skills, emergency planning in disaster vulnerable regions, so our members can assist, albeit in a small way to provide help, and health for all humanity, thus we promote our organisations projects and programs with campaign slogans such as 'help4humanity' 'Hope4Humanity' and 'health4humanity' or simply H4H. The IBC's objectives as set out in its constitution, is the effective delivery of humanitarian aid and services and in particular, humanitarian medicine healthcare to poverty stricken regions and provide emergency response and rescue services in disaster stricken regions, disaster awareness, preparation & prevention programs in disaster vulnerable regions, in co-operation with other specialised agencies, governmental and non-governmental organisations.
Year established:	2011
Year of registration:	2011
Organizational structure:	provincial, national, regional and international global secretariat and committee regional directorates national blue cross and blue crescent societiesuniformed corps faculty associations IBC Confederation The International Blue Cross & Blue Crescent movement comprises: - International Federation of Blue Cross & Blue Crescent Societies (IFBC) - Federation of International Blue Cross & Blue Crescent Organizations (FIBCO) - International Blue Cross (IBC) movement - International Blue Crescent (IBC) movement - Blue Cross Corps - Blue Crescent Corps - Albert Schweitzer Guild (ASG) - Knights of the Blue Cross & Blue Crescent- Humanitarian Medical Order of Knight Hospitallers (HMOKH) - Humanitarian Medical Blue Cross & Blue Crescent - IBC Faculty of Humanitarian Medics (FHM), and sub-faculty; Faculty of Humanitarian Medicine Doctors (FHMD) - IBC Faculty of Disaster Awareness & Prevention Educators (FDAPE) - IBC Faculty of Search and Rescue Trainers & Management (FSARTM) - IBC Faculty of Humanitarian Press & Journalists (FHPJ) - IBC Faculty of Humanitarian Rights & Legal Assistance (FHRLA) - IBC Faculty of Peace & Security Advocates (FPSA) - IBC Faculty of Culture & Heritage Preservation (FCHP) - IBC Faculty of Ecology, Sustainability & Permaculture Educators (FESPE) - IBC Faculty of Proxemics & Protection Instructors (FPPI) - IBC Faculty of Animal Welfare, Protection, & Rescue (FAWPR) - IBC / FHM Health4Humanity (H4H projects, programs & campaigns) - IBC / FDAPE Help4Homeland (H4H projects, programs & campaigns) - IBC / FSRTM Hope4Humanity (H4H projects, programs & campaigns) - IBC Envoys Help4Homeland (H4H projects, programs & campaigns) - IBC/ FESPE Helping Hands On Permaculture Projects (HHOPPers)
Number and type of members:	1000+
Funding structure:	Membership fees or dues Fees for education and training services Fees for providing consulting or research services Product sales and business services Donations and grants from domestic sources Foreign and international grants

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