Information Dynamics, Risk Communication and Community Engagement in the Ebola Bundibugyo Virus Disease Response The Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is unfolding in an environment where trust has become as critical as...
Humanitarian Action in a Chokepoint World Adapting to Systemic Risks and Cascading Shocks The humanitarian system depends on invisible chokepoints — critical routes, infrastructures, technologies, and supply chains whose disruption can trigger cascading global...
Truth, Trust and Humanitarian Action in the Age of Harmful Information The World Disasters Report 2026 warns harmful information as a de facto humanitarian crisis - undermining access to aid, eroding trust, destabilizing social cohesion and increasing risks...
Embrace uncertainty as an opportunity to shape tomorrow The decisions we make now will impact the future, and that future will hold new challenges and unexpected opportunities. Strategic foresight allows us to engage with uncertainty, explore possibilities, and turn...
When 2023 is the new 2030 “We can’t predict everything but we can have curiosity, agility, flexibility and drive to always learn” Download the Study Available in French, Spanish and Arabic Humanitarian Leadership for the Future: about this work We conducted a series...
IFRC Strategy 2030 cites transformations of collaborating as a distributed network and undergoing a digital transformation as two priorities. We explored how to achieve these goals with the innovation program and product - the IFRC Data Playbook v1. It exemplifies how...
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https://youtu.be/WSCyHolD8Dc Your Data Playbook is ready! Together with 100s of Red Cross Red Crescent staff, volunteers and partners, we’ve updated the Data Playbook from beta to version 1. The Data Playbook is 120 exercises, games, scenarios, slides and...
Strategy 2030 Strategy 2030 embodies The Red Cross and Red Crescent long-standing vision and further enhances it, to ensure that it remains a dynamic global network of organisations that are fit for purpose and always there to accompany people and communities.
Design for Social Innovation: Case Studies from Around the World Recognizing the fast-changing context of humanitarian aid, in 2016 the Federation began exploring the possibility of integrating a formal institutional foresight capacity, to think broadly about how the...
Shifting Paradigm: Towards a Transformative and Holistic Vision of 'Humanity' A Call for Rethinking and Expanding the Red Cross Red Crescent Principle of Humanity through Deeper Human and Environmental Consciousness Thesis paper for the Master of Advanced...
During the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic, Spanish Red Cross had an unprecedented influx of people interested in volunteering. Management of volunteering the months of the highest peak of the pandemic was a challenge and an extraordinary opportunity and they...
Digital IdentityAn Analysis for the humanitarian sector This research report was commissioned by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies with the support of the Dignified Identities in Cash Assistance (DIGID) project consortium and was...
IFRC Data & Digital Week 2021 Report During the first ever IFRC Data & Digital week, April 19-23, 2021, our global network gathered online to share data and digital innovations, insights and ideas. Around 4,000 Red Cross Red Crescent staff and volunteers from...
Have you ever experienced Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) training with Virtual Reality (VR) technology? In order to support the learning of proper response in a real disaster situation without bringing any harm to people, Asia Pacific Disaster Resilience Centre...
How to host a virtual Summit And get away with it On September 9th and 10th, 2020 we hosted climate:red, a major virtual summit focused on Climate and Environmental Crisis. It was the first of its kind for the Red Cross and Red Crescent network and certainly the...