Insights and questions from the first edition of FutureFellows What are the attitudes and behaviours we need to nurture as we move towards our collective vision as captured in Strategy 2030? How can we support ambitious people to drive organisational change in support...
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...
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,...
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...
Mrs Terez Curry, the President of the Bahamas Red Cross, shares her thoughts about the pivotal role of transformational leadership for the Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies around the...
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...
Shifting Paradigm: Towards a Transformative and Holistic Vision of ‘Humanity’ A Call for Rethinking and Expanding the Red Cross Red Crescent Principle of Humanity through Deeper Human and Environmental Consciousness Thesis paper for the Master of...
We recently organized a series of workshops with the IFRC on Digital ID to review recent learning and experiences. The workshops were organized around the following question: What should the IFRC’s vision for digital identity look like? Some of the pieces are...
What is a rumor? According to the Cambridge Dictionary, a rumor is “an unofficial interesting story or piece of news that might be true or invented, and quickly spreads from person to person”. Nowadays, spreading speculations is not limited to one country or one...
