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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

Repair’Lab: creating links through repairing objects

The itinerant Humanitarian Repair Lab is a mobile repair workshop run by a team of volunteers in informal living spaces. This initiative enables refugees, migrants [...]
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Service
Hardware / Physical Device
Climate change and Environment

BURN, how to protect health and the environment in the kitchen

By empowering communities with cleaner and healthier cooking solutions, BURN contribute to environmental conservation and social development in Kenya.
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Service
Artificial Intelligence
Health and Wellbeing

AI and teleservices to enable universal access to quality healthcare 

Portal Telemedicina is an advanced AI-driven medtech company providing equitable telehealth services. Thanks to the platform, they have impacted over 33 million patients in Brazil, [...]
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Business Model
Application / Digital Platform
Values, Power and Inclusion

Imix, facilitating financial services in Latin America

Imix provides innovative FinTech solutions, facilitating inclusive financial services. Operating in Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala and Perú, their technology-driven approach bridges the gap in underserved communities, [...]
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Service
Frugal / No-Tech
Values, Power and Inclusion

Disability and handicrafts: the Palestinian Red Crescent’s solidarity shop

The PRCS Store Initiative's in Hebron represents a pioneering step towards achieving sustainable development and empowering individuals with disabilities and the youth in the community. [...]
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Business Model
Frugal / No-Tech
Migration and Displacement

Leaps & Grounds, supporting women refugees one coffee at a time

Leaps and Grounds is a coffee social enterprise that aims to break the barriers to integration for women refugees in the UK. It provides speciality [...]
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Mindset
Hardware / Physical Device
Immersive Tech / VR / AR
Climate change and Environment

Inond’Action, a VR experience on flood prevention and anticipation

Inond’Action is an experience of virtual reality created by the French Red Cross, with the participation of VR Connection and Aviva France. Its purpose is [...]
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Service
Frugal / No-Tech
Values, Power and Inclusion

How to reconnect people listening strangers in the street

Viens t’asseoir je t’écoute  (Come and sit down, I’m listening) is a non-profit association of volunteers which offers freely a confidential listening space in the [...]
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Service
Application / Digital Platform
QR Code Technology
Migration and Displacement

Digital Identities (DIGID) : the digital wallet for refugees

The Dignified Identity solution is aimed at creating digital wallets for refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced people to provide credentials and eligibility for humanitarian [...]
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Service
Application / Digital Platform
Data Tools / Analytics
Values, Power and Inclusion

Hiveonline, the start-up that facilitates access to microcredit for African farmers

The start-up Hiveonline links unbanked and remote communities of African smallholder farmers to financial services and trade opportunities to improve their livelihoods and financial stability. [...]
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Service
Application / Digital Platform
Climate change and Environment

Ecolana, a digital tool to facilitate waste collection

Ecolana is a platform that makes recycling easier by providing its users with a digital platform that indicates the nearest collection centre in order to [...]
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Service
Frugal / No-Tech
Values, Power and Inclusion

Croix-Rouge Insertion, developing sustainable employment for the most disadvantaged 

Croix-Rouge Insertion is an association created by the French Red Cross with the aim of developing sustainable employment access programs for the most disadvantaged individuals. [...]
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