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,...
Innovation
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...
Brothers across Borders – Interactive film based on true stories
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...
Food & Medicine Delivery, the last mile of social aid during the pandemic
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...
Join Testing the Data Playbook content in October
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...
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 the Data Playbook (Beta) in 2018 and have been learning about how teams and participants of training can build their abilities to design...