Shamuk, leaving no one behind, is a project that seeks to reduce electronic waste by giving it a second life. It reduces the digital gap and supports school reintegration through repowering devices and delivering them to children in rural areas in Ecuador. The...
On October 12-14, 2021, we came together as the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and organised a global, virtual summit Planet:Red. The focus of this summit was on two of the greatest threats in contemporary times, the climate crisis and pandemics,...
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...
Brothers across Borders is an interactive film based on the true stories of Syrian refugees in Turkey. You are Ismaël, a 21 years old Syrian refugee on a mission to find his brother Muhammed. Muhammed, as the oldest brother, went to Turkey to find a new and safer home...
Offering essential services such as food or medicine to underprivileged and marginalised people, whether in times of peace, pandemic, disaster or conflict, is a great challenge. The Covid-19 crisis has affected vulnerable households in almost every country, a...
We’re getting ready to launch the Data Playbook in December 2021. We’ve convened 1000s during IFRC Data and Digital Week and 100s in the Data Playbook v1 project. There is currently structure and content for all ten playbook modules (building on the Data Playbook...
Introduction We are hosting iterative sprints to design and get input to the development of the Data Playbook V1. We launched the Data Playbook (Beta) in 2018 and have been learning about how teams and participants of training can build their abilities to design...
In Innovation Pitch Tent we heard some innovative and inspiring ideas from around the Red Cross and Red Crescent network on addressing the climate crisis. 10 presenters (including 5 youth projects and 5 ‘General category’ projects) from 9 countries pitched their ideas...
We are pleased to announce the finalists and the highly commended projects chosen by the judges for the Climate:Red Innovation Competition. The judges were really amazed at the extremely high level of quality of submissions for this competition and it was tough to...
