by Solferino Academy | Jul 3, 2020 | Leadership voices
Pascale Meige, Director IFRC Disaster and Crisis Department Richard Blewitt, IFRC Permanent Observer to the United Nations Maarten van Aalst, Director Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre The diagnosis: the COVID-19 pandemic as an x-ray of our vulnerability to...
by Toni Bruel | Jun 26, 2020 | Leadership voices
General Coordinator Spanish Red Cross Spanish Red Cross has more than 155 years of experience responding to emergencies of a very different nature. The capacities we have developed over these years have helped us facing this crisis that has been an unprecedented...
by Mike Adamson | Jun 12, 2020 | Leadership voices
Chief Executive British Red Cross Society We are used to supporting people during disasters – whether conflict, floods, fires or earthquakes – but an unprecedented crisis like Covid-19 creates a whole host of new and untested challenges. How do you decide how...
by Alexander Matheou | May 19, 2020 | Leadership voices
Executive Director – International British Red Cross Society We still don’t have a clear picture of the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic in fragile states and low-income countries. The secondary impacts, however, are already severely felt. Despite the initial surge to...
by Alexander Matheou | Nov 14, 2019 | Leadership voices
Executive Director – International British Red Cross Society A quiet revolution is happening in how partner Red Cross and Red Crescent societies are collaborating. It is not happening everywhere, not everyone is on board and there continue to be bumps in the road. ...
by Alexander Matheou | Feb 25, 2019 | Leadership voices
Going to scale: In 2016, I attended a roundtable to discuss plans to mitigate a major hunger crisis in southern Africa. Agencies and donors put proposals on the table to import cereals, to oversee mass targeting for cash-based assistance and to diversify the...
