Leveraging the Auxiliary Role: Opportunities for Health System Strengthening for the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement
Presentation by Monika Christofori-Khadka (Swiss Red Cross) at the MMS Symposium 3 November 2021
MMS Symposium Public authorities and the National Societies as auxiliaries enjoy a specific and distinctive partnership, entailing mutual responsibilities and benefits, and based on international and national laws, in which the national public authorities and the National Society agree on the areas in which the National Society supplements or substitutes for public humanitarian services; the National Society must be able to deliver its humanitarian services at all times in conformity with the Fundamental Principles, in particular those of neutrality and independence, and with its other obligations under the Statutes of the Movement as agreed by States at the International Conference.
