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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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Climate change and Environment

Komunidad, the Early Warning software that anticipates climate risks

Komunidad is a climate data and analytics software company providing digital transformation and decision support tools for climate resilience and sustainability.
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Application / Digital Platform
Values, Power and Inclusion

IMPULSA, promoting self-employment for people in need

IMPULSA is a project carried out by the Spanish Red Cross that helps boosting and scaling self-employment projects of people in vulnerable situations since 2007.
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Values, Power and Inclusion

How the Iraqi Red Crescent involved the community and its volunteers in the strategic planning

Community participation is targeted by the Iraqi Red Crescent’s (IRC) activities in its annual planning process. With the goal to better understand the needs of [...]
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Disasters and Crisis

How the Mexican Red Cross created a system for collecting data during emergencies

The emergency control system is cloud-based and allows the operation control of ambulances and rescue vehicles of the Mexican Red Cross. It includes management algorithms, [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
Health and Wellbeing

Comunitaria, promoting circular economy in marginalised neighbourhoods via Blockchain

Comunitaria is an app available on both Android and Apple devices that allows, through blockchain technology, to make donations so that people residing in marginalised [...]
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Service
Frugal / No-Tech
Values, Power and Inclusion

Cartiera, ethical fashion supporting professional inclusion and economic growth

Cartiera is an ethical fashion laboratory created in 2017. It produces leather and fabric accessories according to Made in Italy craftsmanship techniques, recovering high-quality raw [...]
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Application / Digital Platform
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Disasters and Crisis

How to provide mobile real time monitoring on tsunami evacuation

In November 2022, the Humanitarian Technology Unit of the Japanese Red Cross and Disaster Management Institute, jointly conducted Japan's first demonstration experiment on Real-time monitoring [...]
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Service
Frugal / No-Tech
Values, Power and Inclusion

Bricoboutique: DIY homemaking made sustainable and affordable

Bricoboutique is a new concept of solidarity boutique dedicated to DIY products. Open to all, the shop offers second-hand tools and materials, most of them [...]
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Immersive Tech / VR / AR
Health and Wellbeing

The VR app that trains lifeguards to save drowning victims

Lifeguard VR is a virtual reality app developed for the Meta Quest 2 VR headset.  This training simulation will help lifeguards save lives by reinforcing [...]
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Service
Frugal / No-Tech
Climate change and Environment

Échale, the Mexican social enterprise facilitating access to housing

Échale is a Mexican social company that provides solutions regarding adequate housing and local infrastructure for communities that lack access to financial opportunities. Its goal [...]
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Frugal / No-Tech
Health and Wellbeing

How the Thai Red Cross is operating the second snake farm in the world

Snake Farm, Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute (QSMI), Thai Red Cross Society is the second snake farm in the world and the first snake farm in [...]
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Process
Frugal / No-Tech
Values, Power and Inclusion

How the Burundi Red Cross is building the capacity of its volunteers

In 2007, the Burundi Red Cross created decentralized support groups called 'Unités Collinaires'. Each 'Unité Collinaire' is made up of volunteers who have gradually come [...]
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