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 put the Asia Pacific region at the forefront of humanitarian attention. Since then, crises in Europe, Africa and the Middle East have...
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We won a ‘honourable mention’ in the IF Award
Envisioning the Future of Humanitarian Aid: Innovating Food Security through Foresight Ben Holt, Yuve Guluma, with Patricia Mugenzi, Sara Gullet, Priyanka Patel and Derrick Mugasia This Red Cross Red Crescent project applied systems mapping, strategic foresight, and...
2022 could be a year of great opportunities, what needs to happen?
In 2021 The Solferino Academy had numerous opportunities to interact with senior leadership of the Red Cross and Red Crescent exploring different topics. These included a series of workshops and think tanks and one to one interviews with Secretaries General and...
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 agreement. Through this partnership, the two Academies aim to support the IFRC network in becoming a future-fit organisation capable...
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 transformation and leadership for IFRC’s Digital Transformation Team and the Solferino Academy. This is a post in our series on leadership. The...
The Solferino Academy appears in Design for Social Innovation, Case Studies from Around the World
Design for Social Innovation: Case Studies from Around the World Recognizing the fast-changing context of humanitarian aid, in 2016 the Federation began exploring the possibility of integrating a formal institutional foresight capacity, to think broadly about how the...