Shaping a Digital Strategy with Partners How can we collaborate with partners on our digital transformation journey? IFRC and the...
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IFRC Solferino Academy
Think and Do Tank
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We asked people around the world to create life-saving videos that help others prepare for disasters – in 60 seconds or less.
Out of hundreds of submissions, our expert judges have shortlisted 25 powerful and creative videos. Now it’s your turn to help us choose the most impactful one.

Trends and Transformation
Climate:Red Summit 2020
This article was originally posted on designit.com Over 10,000 people from 195 countries joined the 200 sessions at Climate:Red!...
Towards inclusive digital events
Live interpretation during the Climate:Red virtual summit: a multifaceted challenge Three weeks...
MDH Challenge: Meet the Winners
Bold. Smart.
Game-changing.
Over 200 powerful ideas.
One shared mission: to fight misinformation, disinformation, and harmful content with tech, creativity, and community.
We asked Red Cross and Red Crescent staff and volunteers to show us how they’re tackling MDH — either through proven projects already making waves or bold new ideas ready to shake the system.
From AI-powered truth tools and myth-busting blood donation drives, to climate communication platforms and community podcasts — what we received was a surge of brilliance from around the world.
Now, it’s time to meet the changemakers.
Leadership voices
Reflecting on the 34th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent: Humanity at the Core
As we close the chapter on the 34th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, it is a moment both for...
A look ahead to 2024 in Asia Pacific
Let's look ahead to 2024 in Asia Pacific from Red Cross and Red Crescent. Dramatic shifts in power in Afghanistan and Myanmar in 2021...
Sami ñaraki, “We walk together”
A Story of Transformation at Costa Rican Red Cross Like the other National Societies, Costa Rican Red Cross had to adapt and transform...

IFRC Solferino Academy Annual Report
2024
Who we are, what we do and why
IFRC Solferino Academy Framework on Leadership (for the future)
Thought pieces
Decolonising Aid: Reimagining Local Leadership in Crisis Response
Decolonising Aid: Reimagining Local Leadership in Crisis Response, Lutalo Wycliff Henry, Volunteer, Uganda Red Cross Society – Mukono...
The Power of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Emblem
Liana Ghukasyan’s 23-year journey with the Red Cross began unexpectedly, when she recognised the emblem from her childhood in Armenia,...
Will Humanitarian Principles remain a Compass in Polarised Times?
Feedback from the IFRC Strategy 2030 Mid-Term Consultations with the IFRC Network The below piece is part of the analysis we have...
Documents
IFRC Limitless, Learnings and Insights
IFRC Limitless, Learnings and Insights
Your Data Playbook is ready. Download it now!
https://youtu.be/WSCyHolD8Dc Your Data Playbook is ready! Together with 100s of Red Cross Red Crescent staff, volunteers and...
Strategy 2030
Strategy 2030 Strategy 2030 embodies The Red Cross and Red Crescent long-standing vision and further enhances it, to ensure that it...
Innovation Stories
The Humanitarian Data Detective game — A new way to encourage use of IFRC GO
Over the past month, we have been collaborating with IFRC Solferino Academy to create a game which draws a new audience to...
AI is changing our humanitarian work
With the incessant noise about AI and generative AI, teams from the IFRC network are continually exploring. How can we adjust our work...
Transforming National Societies, one innovation support system at a time
The IFRC Solferino Academy has embarked on an ambitious journey of innovation within National Societies. By helping these...
Insights and Inspirations
Innovation for the people
When you think of the word 'innovation', what, or who comes to mind? Is it Edison and the lightbulb, or Marie Curie and her discovery...
How to Create a (Data) Playbook
IFRC Strategy 2030 cites transformations of collaborating as a distributed network and undergoing a digital transformation as two...
How major tech changes have transformed the way we work
IFRC Alumni have asked for some contemporary opinion on how changes in technology have affected ways of working in the humanitarian...
The Strategic Foresight Book
Embrace uncertainty as an opportunity to shape tomorrow
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Call for Papers
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The IFRC Solferino Academy helps National Societies of the IFRC network transform so they can be more fit for the challenges and opportunities of the future. We aim to help National Societies be more anticipatory, agile and innovative.
We do this in alignment with the transformation priorities of the IFRC Strategy 2030 and the IFRC Agenda for Renewal.
Our three areas of focus are;
We help leaders transform for the future
We support leadership in all its forms to develop the capabilities and insights needed to lead transformation, adapt to changing realities and to build systems and cultures for change.
We are a Think Tank for the IFRC Network
We provide platforms for new thinking and approaches where National Societies can learn from others and strengthen their own strategies and transformation processes.
We catalyse and promote Innovation
We develop initiatives that help promote innovation and the enabling environments necessary for it to thrive in our network.

Our Major Partner is the Croce Rossa Italiana (Italian Red Cross)