Thought Pieces
As humanitarian crises are evolving, becoming more complex and unpredictable, there is a growing recognition of the need to gather and...
Decolonising Aid: Reimagining Local Leadership in Crisis Response, Lutalo Wycliff Henry, Volunteer, Uganda Red Cross Society – Mukono...
Liana Ghukasyan’s 23-year journey with the Red Cross began unexpectedly, when she recognised the emblem from her childhood in Armenia,...
Feedback from the IFRC Strategy 2030 Mid-Term Consultations with the IFRC Network The below piece is part of the analysis we have...
Humanitarian funding is skewed by political bias and must recover a credible sense of neutrality to address massive humanitarian...
Volunteer retention is often touted as a key metric of success for volunteer-engaging organizations. However, there is an ongoing...
Leadership Voices
The humanitarian sector is at a turning point: A New Era of Humanitarian FinancingLiana Ghukasyan, Special Advisor to IFRC President...
Will we see more parity in humanitarian financing? — Alexander Matheou Last year, while the world was rightly focused on the great...
Relevance is a word that resonates deeply in the world of humanitarian organisations. In an era marked by geopolitical upheavals,...
As we close the chapter on the 34th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, it is a moment both for...
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...
A Story of Transformation at Costa Rican Red Cross Like the other National Societies, Costa Rican Red Cross had to adapt and transform...
Insights and Inspirations
Amid escalating climate uncertainties, the Global Disater Preparedness Center (GDPC)'s unique position in our Network bridges critical...
In a time of lofty global goals and big initiatives and commitments, at the International Center for Humanitarian Affairs (ICHA) in...
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...
IFRC Strategy 2030 cites transformations of collaborating as a distributed network and undergoing a digital transformation as two...
IFRC Alumni have asked for some contemporary opinion on how changes in technology have affected ways of working in the humanitarian...
Data protection principles and practices should guide every humanitarian at each stage of project development. What makes you and...
Innovation Stories
Floods in Kenya have impacted 43 counties, prompting the Kenya Red Cross Society and the International Centre for Humanitarian Affairs...
Stepping into 2024, the Asia Pacific Disaster Resilience Center (APDRC) reflects on a year of innovation, notably launching the RE:...
Over the past month, we have been collaborating with IFRC Solferino Academy to create a game which draws a new audience to...
With the incessant noise about AI and generative AI, teams from the IFRC network are continually exploring. How can we adjust our work...
The IFRC Solferino Academy has embarked on an ambitious journey of innovation within National Societies. By helping these...
In a world where technological advancements are reshaping industries and societies, integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into...
Limitless Stories
Action Lab researchers from Monash University’s Faculty of Information Technology and the International Federation of Red...
A Limitless Impact Story from Nigeria I started out searching for a solution on how to help members of my local community overcome the...
A Limitless impact story from Colombia We saw the Solferino Academy’s call for stories just at the time when we were thinking about...
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...
A Limitless Impact Story from Thailand In 2019, 800 Thai youths took their own lives, and over 10,000 calls from youth were received...
A Limitless impact story from Indonesia During the COVID-19 pandemic, as a youth volunteer from the Indonesian Red Cross, I was seeing...
Trends and Transformations
The digital landscape is evolving rapidly, driven by advances in AI and emerging technologies, alongside internal shifts in skills and...
As we reach the midpoint of Strategy 2030, we are entering a new humanitarian era. A complex mass of emerging trends is changing the...
Humanitech, an initiative of Australian Red Cross, recently released a report titled Future of Vulnerability: Humanity in the Digital...
Shaping a Digital Strategy with Partners How can we collaborate with partners on our digital transformation journey? IFRC and the...
This article was originally posted on designit.com Over 10,000 people from 195 countries joined the 200 sessions at Climate:Red!...
Live interpretation during the Climate:Red virtual summit: a multifaceted challenge Three weeks...
Volunteering Voices
On the occasion of the 24th of June 2020, A thought, a word, to the leaders of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red...
By Ronald Yip, Humanitarian Education volunteer at Hong Kong Red Cross 2018 was a spectacular year as it marked another large-scale...
Envisioning an Expanded RCRC through Education, Empowerment Strategy 2030 of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red...
Change is a constant factor. Volunteering is not an exception. There is a growing consensus that the way people engage in volunteering...
We all know we live in a world full of problems: from inequality, to lack of access to health, starvation, violence, gender and...
‘The Future is Now’, is the tag line for the International Federation Red Cross, Red Crescent (IFRC) movement when considering the...