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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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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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Service
Application / Digital Platform
Health and Wellbeing

The democratisation of digital health in rural Bangladesh

The ‘Free Health Cashback’ feature of Digital Healthcare Solutions (DH) enables various marginalised and people living under or close to the poverty line to access [...]
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Process
Frugal / No-Tech
Climate change and Environment

How students of the Delft University of Technology apply human centred-design to social aid

In 2016 the Netherlands Red Cross partnered with the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering of Delft University of Technology to bring human-centered design into humanitarian [...]
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Process
Data Tools / Analytics
Hardware / Physical Device
Health and Wellbeing

Kumamoto Hospital, how to integrate innovation within a healthcare facility

Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital is functioning as an open innovation lab for humanitarian technologies by collaborating with various stakeholders such as academia, private sector [...]
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