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See how innovators from across the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement and beyond are reimagining solutions to today’s humanitarian challenges. Dive into more than 200 projects — from early pilots to scaled impact — spanning service, process, and business model innovation.

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Frugal / No-Tech
Health and Wellbeing

mothers2mothers, promoting peer mentoring to fight HIV

m2m was founded in 2001 in Cape Town, South Africa with a remarkably simple, but equally visionary, idea—that African mothers living with HIV could serve [...]
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Frugal / No-Tech
Health and Wellbeing

“Red Cross listens to you”: the psychosocial support service of the Spanish Red Cross

“Cruz Roja te escucha” (Red Cross listens to you) is a service that offers support and psychosocial accompaniment to the most fragile members of our [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
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Values, Power and Inclusion

“Toutes mes aides” or how to know what aids we are entitled to

Toutes mes aides has developed a smart simulator that enables individuals to identify all the social assistance to which they are entitled.
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Application / Digital Platform
Health and Wellbeing

How the Bulgarian Red Cross is providing online trainings since the beginning of the pandemic

The e-platform for trainings of the Bulgarian Red Cross is a digital platform where every person can access online trainings in First aid, Psychosocial support, [...]
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Frugal / No-Tech
Health and Wellbeing

Easy Touch, the new adaptive fashion brand in Armenia

By founding "Easy Touch" LLC, Tatevik's goal is to create multifunctional and fashionable clothes for people with disabilities, promoting their maximum independence and improving the [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Artificial Intelligence
Health and Wellbeing

Searching Help: a digital listening system to detect suicidal risk behaviours

SearchingHelp is an application for suicide prevention. Its operation is based on a listening system that acts as a "detector" of increased risk of suicidal [...]
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Data Tools / Analytics
Digital Medical Device
Health and Wellbeing

OmniVis: how to detect cholera in minutes rather than days

OmniVis makes a handheld plug-and-play device for detecting infectious diseases, in under 30 minutes, anywhere in the world.
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GIS / Mapping
Hardware / Physical Device
Disasters and Crisis

MapMakoko: How to map a slum via drone cartography & data journalism

Using drone cartography and data-driven journalism to map a slum in an African megacity. 
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Frugal / No-Tech
Health and Wellbeing

Discovering Hands, better detection of breast cancer thanks to visually impaired people

In Duisburg, western Germany, Frank Hoffmann was the first gynecologist developing a more effective method of detecting breast tumors by training blind or visually impaired [...]
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Chatbot / Conversational Interface
Migration and Displacement

WhatsApp Helpdesk: a support service for undocumented migrants

The WhatsApp Helpdesk for undocumented migrants is available 7 days/week to answer all sorts of questions.
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Application / Digital Platform
Migration and Displacement

The Netherlands Red Cross’ digital cash aid for undocumented migrants

Undocumented migrants who lack the means to cover their basic needs, receive a weekly digital supermarket voucher through WhatsApp. 
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Application / Digital Platform
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Migration and Displacement

Helpful Information Web-app: a Netherlands Red Cross initiative with referral information for undocumented migrants

The web-application built by the Netherlands Red Cross helps undocumented migrants to find their way to the support available to them, by sharing referral information [...]
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