Collaborative power: how hulo transforms humanitarian logistics
Hulo is the first humanitarian logistics cooperative. Composed of fourteen member organisations, Hulo connects humanitarian actors to enhance the effectiveness of aid.
The Spanish Red Cross has been identifying over the past few years the need for a large number of National Societies to set web-based systems for managing the data of its volunteers. Therefore, in 2022, Spanish Red Cross initiated the implementation of an open source software web-based contact and relationship management system for National Societies.
With the Social Media Listening tool (SML), it is possible to scan posts and messages on social media and instant messaging applications (such as Telegram or X). The messages are scraped, translated, coded and analyzed to provide a qualitative and quantitative summary of the most discussed topics by people affected. These insights provide an unbiased understanding of their needs, fears, feedback, sentiments, and experience.
The FAO Dimitra Clubs, or Community Action Clubs, are informal groups of women and men, young and old, who decide to join together on a voluntary basis to discuss and seek solutions to their community's problems, and to resolve them through collective action, using only local resources.