by Red Cross Red Crescent Research Consortium (RC3) | Mar 12, 2025 | Thought Pieces
As humanitarian crises are evolving, becoming more complex and unpredictable, there is a growing recognition of the need to gather and analyse reliable data to guide humanitarian action. Humanitarian organisations, with their firsthand experience of complex...
by The DIGID Consortium | Aug 29, 2023 | Innovation Stories
In a world where crises and migrations are increasingly complex, the journey of individuals like Fatima, a migrant in search of both financial aid and continuous healthcare, highlights the challenges faced due to disconnected humanitarian systems. Just consider the...
by Heather Leson, Melissa El Hamouch and Dirk Slater | Mar 10, 2023 | Documents, Insights and Inspirations
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...
by Melissa El Hamouch, Heather Leson and James De France | Sep 9, 2022 | Insights and Inspirations
Data protection principles and practices should guide every humanitarian at each stage of project development. What makes you and your team responsible data users? Every day, humanitarians ask themselves “how can I protect the most vulnerable?” We...
by Heather Leson and Melissa El Hamouch | Aug 8, 2022 | Insights and Inspirations
We’ve hosted data playbook workshops with avocados, limes, oranges, and a bag of peanuts: You can learn about data quality standards, decision-making with data, and basic data analysis,… and have snacks! Use what you have In Bangkok, we convened an information...
by Heather Leson | Jun 21, 2022 | Documents, Insights and Inspirations
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 checklists to assist you and...
by IFRC Solferino Academy | Apr 30, 2021 | Documents
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...
by IFRC GO | Apr 21, 2021 | Insights and Inspirations
Data is now the world’s most valuable resource. What does that mean for the IFRC, a century-old membership organisation, consisting of the world’s 192 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies? How can we tap the vast amounts of data exchanged across the IFRC...
by Melissa El Hamouch | Apr 6, 2021 | Innovation Stories
Photo credits: Lebanese Red Cross The year 2020 in Lebanon, kick-started with ongoing revolutions, an economic crisis, a political collapse, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The country’s unstable economic situation and the steady rise of COVID-19 cases were both major...
