When you are baking, you know every single ingredient serves for a different function, and if the backbone of the recipe is lacking, you soon realise your product is unsavoury. Just as baking, the humanitarian system has ingredients that bring out the humanitarian...
Thought Pieces
Intelligence collective de crise : Aperçus et leçons clés du Cameroun et du Népal
Co-écrit par la Croix-Rouge du Népal, la Croix-Rouge du Cameroun, et l'Académie de Solférino de la FICR La Croix-Rouge et le Croissant-Rouge travaillent auprès des communautés du monde entier. Nous nous sommes posés la question suivante : comment pouvons-nous mieux...
Collective Crisis Intelligence: Insights and key lessons from Cameroon and Nepal
Co-written by Nepal Red Cross, Cameroon Red Cross, and IFRC Solferino Academy The Red Cross Red Crescent works in communities around the world. We asked - How can we better co-design and prototype emerging technology with communities at the center? Over the past year,...
A call for humanitarian consistency
Maryann Horne, Senior Humanitarian advisor for Crises and Emergencies for Asia Pacific looks at of the global impacts of the Ukraine crisis. She argues that principled humanitarian action and the respect of International Humanitarian Law is more needed than ever. The...
Introducing collective crisis intelligence
AI and predictive analytics are increasingly being piloted to predict humanitarian crises and needs. However, crisis-affected communities are rarely involved in designing, testing or managing these tools. In this blog we introduce our research on ‘collective crisis...
Covid-19 Is a Call for Universalism
Crises are by definition breaking points. Something that we thought would hold – peace, health, transit system, electric supply, a way of life, a society – shatters. While dealing with the crisis, our understanding of the vulnerability of our world increases, as does...