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IFRC Solferino Academy — MDH Challenge, Apply now
Connect Technology Conference
2025 — Doha, Qatar
Welcome to the
IFRC Solferino Academy
Think and Do Tank
MDH Challenge
Responses to Misinformation, Disinformation
and Harmful information (MDH)
TL;DR
This competition seeks tech–based responses to counteract MDH
This competition is for National Society staff and volunteers
This competition has two categories, Existing Projects and Future Projects.
Win a trip to the Connect Summit in Doha, funding, mentorship, tech consultancy and more.
Deadline: March 16, 2025
IFRC Solferino Academy Annual Report
2024
Who we are, what we do and why
Leadership voices
A humanitarian recipe for a green, resilient and inclusive recovery from COVID-19
Pascale Meige, Director IFRC Disaster and Crisis DepartmentRichard Blewitt, IFRC Permanent Observer to the United NationsMaarten van...
The Spanish Red Cross’s response to COVID-19: articulate all response capacities and accelerate processes of improvement and innovation
General CoordinatorSpanish Red Cross Spanish Red Cross has more than 155 years of experience responding to emergencies of a very...
IFRC Solferino Academy Framework on Leadership (for the future)
Thought pieces
Embracing New Perspectives in Technology, Methodology, and Strategy
We prompted reflection on global humanitarian challenges and how to embrace new landscapes in the fields of technology, methodology...
The Humanitarian Observatory’s Roadmap for 2024
Explore the Humanitarian Observatory's robust research agenda for 2024, addressing global challenges with actionable insights,...
Why do we need a glocalized development? Way to decentralize aid
The milestone It has been six years since the humanitarian agenda has reached a milestone after the UN Secretary General’s call for...
Documents
How to host a virtual Summit, and get away with it
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...
Innovation Stories
“We trained 120 farmers from 15 different communities how to make organic fertilisers, and they are now training other members of their communities!”
A Limitless Impact Story from Nigeria I started out searching for a solution on how to help members of my local community overcome the...
“How can we create synergy between innovation, technology, public health, and building a better community?”
A Limitless impact story from Colombia We saw the Solferino Academy’s call for stories just at the time when we were thinking about...
“We could actually see the impact! Over 5,000 young people have joined our online learning platform!”
A Limitless impact story from Kenya Nobody tells you when to go and create impact in your community. Many times, you go out to create...
Trends and Transformation
The IFRC Solferino always experiment and develops new approaches to tackle complex humanitarian challenges. Following the trends and applying them to our own problems helps us prototype and imagine innovative solutions
WhatFutures: a game about the future of humanitarian need
WhatFutures was an innovative forecasting game about the future of humanitarian need, played entirely through WhatsApp. It was played...
The Future of Livelihoods – 2030
WHAT HAS STRATEGY 2020 MEANT FOR LIVELIHOODS PROGRAMMING IN RCRC? Livelihood is both an area of focus (AoF) in IFRC Strategy 2020 and...
Sustainable digital age
the Department of Information Technologies of Turkish Red Crescent Digital Change is a concept which cannot be explained by using new...
Insights and Inspirations
FutureFellows 2021: Innovation challenge with the British Red Cross
28 emerging leaders from 28 Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies, working in 5 teams, accompanied by 10 coaches, on a 2-month...
New partnership with the International Academy of Red Cross and Red Crescent in China
October 16 2021, the International Academy of Red Cross and Red Crescent in China and the IFRC Solferino Academy signed a cooperation...
My transformation journey as a leader in DNV
Ed note: DNV is a partner of the Norwegian Red Cross Society and IFRC. They are providing mentorship and guidance on digital...
The Strategic Foresight Book
Embrace uncertainty as an opportunity to shape tomorrow
Have you got something to say?
Call for Papers
Do you have a story of change, a tale of transformation or innovation insights to share with our network? Share your idea with us, and we will tell the story together.
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)