This article was originally posted on designit.com Over 10,000 people from 195 countries joined the 200 sessions at Climate:Red! Participants spent 30 hours discussing global needs and sharing local initiatives around climate change. Our team in Oslo teamed up with...
Should volunteers be paid for their labour? Such a question may seem a contradiction in terms – isn’t the point of volunteering that you give time for free? But newly published research from Northumbria University’s Centre for International Development and the...
Live interpretation during the Climate:Red virtual summit: a multifaceted challenge Three weeks have passed since the IFRC's virtual Climate:Red summit came to an end. Plenty of time to reflect on our experience, what worked, and...
On September 9th and 10th, 2020 we hosted Climate:Red, a major virtual Red Cross and Red Crescent summit focused on Climate and Environmental Crisis. During the 30 summit hours, over 10,000 people from around the globe attended over 200 crowdsourced...
The UN has reminded us that the climate crisis is the biggest threat facing humanity over the long term. According to the World Food Programme, 270 million people are nearing the brink of starvation and now, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis...
Customer centricity is the new buzzword, when talking about providing services. The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement uses the approach of ‘Community engagement and accountability (CEA)’ to include participation of the ‘customer’, the beneficiary. But is this...