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Thought Pieces
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...
Digitalisation in Humanitarian Action: the path forward
As crucial key enablers in delivering effective and timely humanitarian aid to the people in need, digital technologies allow aid...
Baking Social Impact Business into Sustainable Humanitarian Financing Model
When you are baking, you know every single ingredient serves for a different function, and if the backbone of the recipe is lacking,...
Intelligence collective de crise : Aperçus et leçons clés du Cameroun et du Népal
Co-écrit par la Croix-Rouge du Népal, la Croix-Rouge du Cameroun, et l'Académie de Solférino de la FICR La Croix-Rouge et le...
Collective Crisis Intelligence: Insights and key lessons from Cameroon and Nepal
Co-written by Nepal Red Cross, Cameroon Red Cross, and IFRC Solferino Academy The Red Cross Red Crescent works in communities around...
Leadership Voices
6 things we need to be great at during S2030
Going to scale: In 2016, I attended a roundtable to discuss plans to mitigate a major hunger crisis in southern Africa. Agencies and...
Nine Trends that will shape how National Societies will work together during Strategy 2030
At British Red Cross, we’ve been writing our international strategy at the same time as the Strategy 2030 consultations have been...
Insights and Inspirations
Pilot with us – Data is a team sport (updated)
Data is a team sport. Across the IFRC and National Societies, we use data and data literacy in our delivery of humanitarian services....
Evolving and Iterating the Data Playbook V1 during our second co-creation sprint
Introduction We are hosting iterative sprints to design and get input to the development of the Data Playbook V1. We launched...
Design your next community-driven event: lessons from Data and Digital Week
April 2021 saw the Red Cross Red Crescent’s first-ever week-long, participant-driven and fully virtual event organised around one...
Sprint to join a shared learning journey on data literacy
What is the data playbook? The IFRC Data Playbook is a collection of social learning materials for developing data skills for...
Data is a team sport: Co-Creating V1 of the Data Playbook
“Telling a National Society that you want to support them with data literacy can be confusing and unclear. Data literacy is a broad...
How can digital IDs facilitate humanitarian aid?
Invisibility of the vulnerable: a paradox for humanitarians “The humanitarian sector cannot help people if it fails to see them....
Innovation Stories
“The power of digital media allows youth to work with no limits. Our digital campaigns have reached more than 65,000 users.”
A Limitless impact story from Indonesia During the COVID-19 pandemic, as a youth volunteer from the Indonesian Red Cross, I was seeing...
“And the numbers continued to rise! Today, over 100 youths are now freelancers and earning a decent livelihood.”
A Limitless impact story from Kenya After I joined the Limitless Youth Innovation Academy, I was confident enough that my initiative...
“We came up with a handmade, reusable solution that reduces the cost of menstrual pads by 75% to 90% annually.”
A Limitless impact story from Uganda Hello! my name is Esther, and I am a youth volunteer from the Uganda Red Cross. I'm excited to...
“We couldn’t believe it, we saw depression and anxiety levels reduced by 80% among children and teenagers!”
A Limitless impact story from Ecuador Hola! My name is Darwin Carvallo, and I am an Ecuadorian Red Cross youth volunteer and one of...
“As raw materials, we used non-disposable manufactured products. The initiative was a tremendous success!”
A Limitless Impact Story from Uganda Have you ever turned your small idea into a local innovation? Here’s my innovation journey with...
Tech for good — what does it actually look like?
If you think you don’t need to design for safety, dignity and trust, you are missing something. New and emerging technologies have the...
Limitless Stories
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Trends and Transformations
Conflict and poverty
Conflict and violence Extreme poverty in the world will increasingly be concentrated in countries experiencing conflict and fragility....
Natural Disasters, Climate Change, and Depletion of Resources
Climate and disasters Climate-related impacts are expected to intensify significantly in the coming years, deepening struggles for...
Future of work
Future of work Advances in technologies will result in workforce shifts and a youth bulge grappling with the lack of productive...
Participation and engagement
Participation and engagement The nature of volunteering is changing; communities are engaging with social, humanitarian, and...
Adapting to and experimenting with new technologies and dynamics
Emerging technology The technological revolution is dramatically changing how we live and work. How do we support communities to take...
New Communities
New communities and cities Migration, urbanization, the youth bulge, ageing populations and, highly networked citizens are changing...
Volunteering Voices
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