The Skybird Programme, led by the Austrian Red Cross and its partners, aims at contributing to improved living conditions – incl. health, environment and livelihood – in East Africa through increased innovation, strengthened capacities and partnerships of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (RCRC) movement in WASH and related fields to enable more gender sensitive and effective WASH service delivery.
BarefootLaw is a non-profit organisation which, through the innovative use of digital technology, empowers people with free legal information so that they can use it to develop legal solutions for their justice needs. BarefootLaw’s work involves using technology and innovative approaches to bridge the gap between people and the legal system.
WEEE Centre is an electronic waste disposal and recycling company based in Nairobi, Kenya. WEEE Centre also has various collection centres in regional cities in Kenya. Electronic waste is collected from communities, taken to collection centres, and later taken to the main processing facility in Nairobi.
Founded by the French Red Cross and the Kenya Red Cross Society in 2023, the Women Social Entrepreneurship Institute (WSEI) is an innovative program that supports women entrepreneurs in the Coastal region of Kenya transitioning to the formal economy with stronger businesses.
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 aid assistance in Cash and Continuity of Healthcare. The solution was piloted in Uganda with the Uganda Red Cross Society and in Kenya with the Kenya Red Cross Society. Currently, the solution is being implemented in Kenya as a scale-up in the NCD in crises project funded by the Norvo-Disk Foundation through the Danish Red Cross.
