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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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Service
Frugal / No-Tech
Migration and Displacement

Shelter Movers: Empowering Journeys to Safety

Shelter Movers is a national volunteer-powered charity that provides free moving and storage services to victims fleeing abuse. In collaboration with community agencies and local [...]
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Mindset
Frugal / No-Tech
Values, Power and Inclusion

How Senegalese grandmothers make positive change in the communities

Grandmother Project – Change through Culture (GMP’s) is an American and Senegalese NGO.  Their program in Senegal with schools and communities uses an intergenerational and [...]
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Service
Application / Digital Platform
Data Tools / Analytics
Health and Wellbeing

Croix-Rouge chez Vous, how to tackle social isolation during the pandemic

Croix-Rouge chez vous (Red Cross at home) is an operation launched on Friday 20 March 2020 by the French Red Cross to respond to the [...]
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Business Model
Frugal / No-Tech
Health and Wellbeing

ColaLife, delivering life-saving medicines through Coca-Cola’s supply chain

Cola Life is improving access to medicine for diarrhoea treatment by creating products that truly suit the needs and constraints of people at the bottom [...]
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Service
Frugal / No-Tech
Values, Power and Inclusion

The Chime, a network of shopkeepers offering services to the most excluded

The Chime is the first worldwide network of shopkeepers offering free services to the most excluded. Its mission is to break social exclusion, empower citizens [...]
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Service
Data Tools / Analytics
Frugal / No-Tech
Health and Wellbeing

Wellfare, delivering healthy food directly to those in need

Wellfare is a nonprofit organization delivering nourishment to the food-insecure in New York City. Every two weeks, they deliver a box of donated shelf-stable and [...]
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Humanitarian Innovation Platform, how to facilitate the collaboration of NGOs

The Humanitarian Innovation Platform (HIP) is a collaborative effort between humanitarian agencies to foster innovation and deliver smarter and more effective assistance to people in [...]
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Service
Hardware / Physical Device
Open-Source Software
Health and Wellbeing

Autofabricantes, empowering children with disabilities through accessible solutions

Autofabricantes is a collaborative research project that aims to generate alternative solutions available in open source to empower children with malformation. The organisation strives for [...]
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Service
Connected Devices
Digital Learning / Gamification
Migration and Displacement

Instant Network Schools: Connected education for refugees camps

The Instant Network Schools (INS) programme is a pioneering, holistic and human-centred model of effective use of technology to support quality education for refugees and [...]
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Process
Data Tools / Analytics
Disasters and Crisis

Digital volunteering, the response of Singapore to global disasters

Singapore Red Cross launched a Disaster Surveillance Team (DST) to monitor global natural or man-made incidents that may call upon the need of international humanitarian [...]
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Service
Connected Devices
Health and Wellbeing

How can drones save rural areas in case of natural disasters

Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital proposes the "Ambulance Drone Concept" which is the integrated service model of telemedicine and medical cargo drones to improve the [...]
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Tool
Frugal / No-Tech
Disasters and Crisis

Sollune, lighting up isolated areas with phosphorescent shelters

Light, easy to handle and resistant, SOLLUNE tarpaulin collects sunlight during daytime to provide soft lightning to break the darkness at night.
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