IRC 2020The world's more than 50 million displaced people, the most since World War II, require more than "aid as usual." Their growing and increasingly complex needs mandate a transformation -- a creative rethinking -- in the global humanitarian response. The IRC's new strategic plan -- IRC 2020 -- answers that call.The beneficiaries of our programs deserve evidence-based interventions that bring real change to their lives. That is what we are determined to deliver. The IRC has grown because our teams have gone to the toughest places, done cutting-edge research, developed in-depth knowledge, and forged vital relationships with local governments. Today our 170 field offices in over 30 crisis-torn countries are helping communities rebuild after Ebola, survive terrorist insurgencies, and recover from war. From health care to education to protection for women and girls, the IRC is there.International Rescue CommitteeIRC_b34cb2a6-44f3-11e5-ab33-71d4c7444285Albert EinsteinMore than 80 years after Albert Einstein helped create the International Rescue Committee, the number and intensity of humanitarian crises across the globe warrant a dose of Einstein-inspired innovation. David MilibandIRC PRESIDENT AND CEO -- "Never before has the world needed the IRC as it does today. Meeting those needs will require not only new thinking and approaches, but new partners."Refugees... unlike any other humanitarian organization, we are also here, in 22 U.S. cities, helping newly arrived refugees adjust to life in America and make a contribution to their new country.U.S. CitiesDisplaced PeopleColin PowellFORMER U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE -- "The IRC goes to -- and stays in --places no one wants to be. The scope of the organization's work is immense, but the focus remains simple: to help alleviate suffering by whatever means necessary."_b34cb3fa-44f3-11e5-ab33-71d4c7444285Deliver evidence-based interventions that bring real change to the lives of displaced people._b34cb4a4-44f3-11e5-ab33-71d4c7444285ProgramsBuild programs that rebuild lives _b34cb53a-44f3-11e5-ab33-71d4c74442851The foundation of all successful, high-impact programs is a body of evidence detailing how those programs work. That is why the IRC has pledged to be the first NGO to ensure that every program is either based on world-class appropriate evidence, or is contributing to the creation of that evidence-base. _b34cb652-44f3-11e5-ab33-71d4c7444285Rescue & Relief[Provide] more and faster rescue and relief _b34cb6fc-44f3-11e5-ab33-71d4c74442852The impact of our programs depends on speed as well as quality of delivery. Within 72 hours of a disaster, we are pledged to organize health care, distribute cash, and deliver clean water. That means new ways of working, new preparations in advance of disaster striking, and new partnerships with the private sector. And we are expanding our response teams in order to react to as many as four concurrent emergencies. _b34cb792-44f3-11e5-ab33-71d4c7444285ImprovementCreate the capacity for systematic research._b34cb83c-44f3-11e5-ab33-71d4c74442853Big steps forward -- IRC staff work every day to build better programs. But we also know that some of the major changes in the lives of our beneficiaries will come from big leaps, not just small steps, forward. That means creating the capacity for systematic research. Our commitment to research is pioneering changes in products and processes that, in turn, are changing lives. By borrowing from other sectors, and developing our own innovative approaches to crisis situations, we will address the questions that stifled the humanitarian response for many decades: how to deliver vaccinations in war zones; how to tackle the upsurge in domestic and sexual violence that accompanies war; how to deliver cash into emergency settings quickly and cheaply._b34cb8e6-44f3-11e5-ab33-71d4c7444285CollaborationBuild collaboration with the public, private and nonprofit sectors_b34cb9ae-44f3-11e5-ab33-71d4c74442854Public AgenciesPrivate OrganizationsNonprofit OrganizationsA call for collaboration -- If you care about the plight of millions of fellow human beings and want to do something about it, we hope you will join us -- as a supporter, a partner, a volunteer or a donor. We are determined to work in an open way that builds collaboration with the public, private and nonprofit sectors -- in short, with all those ready to meet the daunting challenges we face. The ultimate beneficiaries of IRC 2020 will be the most vulnerable among us -- those left behind in a world of flux. Our strategy aims to honor their courage and resilience by expanding our impact and reach, ultimately enabling tens of millions of men, women and children to reclaim their lives._b34cba62-44f3-11e5-ab33-71d4c74442852015-08-17http://www.rescue.org/sites/default/files/resource-file/IRC2015_Brchr_Strategy.pdfOwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net