Initiatives

Red Cross Red Crescent (RC/RC) National Societies are at the forefront of responding to the climate crisis. Climate change is a cross-cutting issue with wide-reaching repercussions across all parts of society. Youth action is critical towards achieving impact, as young people are significant drivers...

Committed to Advancing the Humanitarian Mission through Evidence and Learning. Access the Map What is this map for? This map is a collection of past and current research activities, studies, and academic papers that are supported by the members of the Research Consortium and captures some of the res...

The Asia Pacific Urban Community Resilience Hub coordinates and connects urban work across the region, enhancing knowledge sharing and peer-to-peer exchange within and beyond RCRC networks and platforms, and operationalize the existing urban learning with a strong orientation toward partnerships and...

THE NORTH AMERICAN HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE SUMMIT Cross-Border Catastrophic Disaster Response WHAT IS NAHRS: The North American Humanitarian Response Summit (NAHRS) represents a unique effort to improve the effectiveness of cross-border response to a potential catastrophic disaster in North America....

The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), is a standard business forum for emergency alerting. CAP, as it was designated by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Recommendation X.1303, is broadly recognized internationally as the key standard for societies to achieve all-hazards, all media publi...

The International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Secretariat (IFRC) and the American Red Cross have been leading an Urban Collaboration Platform (UCP) since early 2016, with strong support from increasing number of National Societies, the Global Disaster Preparedness Center and the Red Cros...