Improving humanitarian action
with data & digital
510 is the data and digital team of the Netherlands Red Cross. We envision a world where humanitarians use digital solutions to provide timely, relevant, and accountable assistance to every person affected by crisis. To bring this vision to life, we help humanitarians transform how they operate, by strengthening local capacity, delivering data services and digital products.
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A Week Can Change Everything: A New Collaboration For Cash Assistance In Chad
Continue reading: A Week Can Change Everything: A New Collaboration For Cash Assistance In ChadBy combining digital cash assistance and community feedback systems, the Chad Red Cross is helping migrants receive support in days rather than weeks. For people on the move, timing matters. Migrants travelling through Chad often arrive with little to no money and…
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When Storms Ignore Borders: Building Hurricane Early Action Across the Caribbean
Continue reading: When Storms Ignore Borders: Building Hurricane Early Action Across the CaribbeanWhen hurricanes loom over the Caribbean, national borders mean little. The same storm can sweep across multiple islands within hours, exposing countless communities to similar threats. This shared reality sparked an ambitious idea: what if three Caribbean island states could develop their…
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Seeing Stress Early: How Communities in Sierra Leone Manage Climate Risk
Continue reading: Seeing Stress Early: How Communities in Sierra Leone Manage Climate RiskAcross Sierra Leone, communities restore degraded land to stay ahead of climate impacts. Led by the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society, the Tree Planting and Care programme spans 62 communities and has already supported the planting of more than three million trees.…
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When Every Drop Counts: Water Point Mapping in Ethiopia
Continue reading: When Every Drop Counts: Water Point Mapping in EthiopiaWhether heavy rain makes rivers swell or a heatwave dries up landscapes, exposed communities have one important question on their minds: Where can we find safe water? As climate change intensifies and causes more frequent floods and droughts in Ethiopia’s Somali region,…