One Billion Coalition for Resilience

“Engaging 1 billion people on the road to their resilience will require a shift in the way we operate.”

Taking local solutions to scale!

Spiraling stakeholder engagement in Singapore

The Singapore Red Cross has developed an innovative model for spiraling engagement of community volunteers and stakeholders through its Community-Led Action for REsilience (CLARE) initiative.

Home fire preparedness in the United States

The Home Fire Campaign links the American Red Cross, fire departments, companies, and community organizations to mobilize volunteer teams to install home smoke detectors in high risk neighbourhoods across the United States.

Preparing households in Australia

The Australian Red Cross has set a visionary target to engage one person in every household in Australia to take actions to increase the safety, health, and well-being of their households.

Iraq Humanitarian Forum at community level

Drawing on support through the Iraq Humanitarian Forum, the Iraqi Red Crescent is expanding a model for community resilience forums throughout Iraq.

Record contributions!

Record contributions from your existing projects or forward looking commitments toward national or local 1BC targets.

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One Billion Coalition
for Resilience

“Engaging 1 billion people on the road to their resilience will require a shift in the way we operate.”

Workstreams

Network-wide partnering

Partnering helix

Collective impact

  • Make communities safer at wide scale.
  • Link people and communities around the world, bridging low-, middle-, and high-income.
  • Engage people, communities, and partners as co-organizers.
  • Combine local solutions, using building blocks from our successes elsewhere.

Local solutions

Spheres of influence

1BC pledge

For the 2019 International Conference, there is an updated pledge for scaling local solutions and collective impact toward the 1BC global goals:

Partners and activities

Innovation for Resilience workshop hosted by WFP in October 2017 Globally 1BC is focused on sharing tools and opportunities for national and local partners to adapt in creating local resilience actions.

Global Partners

  • Connecting Business initiative
  • UNICEF
  • WFP
  • The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

News

This is an overview of the business model for the planned roll-out of the One Global Emergency Response Network in Nigeria. In Africa 1BC is focused on identifying country level opportunities for piloting innovative approaches for scaling.

Regional Partners

  • MUrgency
  • ProFuturo Foundation
  • WFP
  • UNICEF

News

  • The Nigerian Red Cross, IFRC, MUrgency and a local corporate partner are conducting scoping activities for the rollout of an innovative first responder network using Nigerian Red Cross first aid volunteers.
  • The IFRC and the ProFuturo Foundation are finalizing plans for clountry piloting of a collaboration to promote safety and health content and activities in life skills education.
Youths playing a climate change awareness/education game (based around the Snakes & Ladders game) developed by the Colombian Red Cross. In the Americas the IFRC is approaching 1BC through a regional “Community Resilience Agenda” focused on strengthening national capacities for coalition-building and advocacy to support community resilience.

Regional Partners

News

  • The IFRC regional team has developed a variety of guidance materials for collaborating on resilience, including a Resilient Communities Handbook (English, Spanish) and City Coalitions Handbook (English, Spanish).
The IFRC is partnering with the Prudence Foundation and National Geographic in a regional initiative in Asia and the Pacific to train 200 million people in First Aid. In Asia 1BC is being pursued through a variety of regional initiatives and national preparedness and resilience campaigns.

Regional Partners

  • Prudence Foundation
  • National Geographic
  • Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
  • ASEAN
  • Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Multi-Hazards Program

News

This is an image from a Mercy Corps school safety program in Tajikistan showing a young girl highlighting on a map areas of risk in her community.

Regional Partners

  • UNICEF

News

  • “Neighbours help first” is being developed among the South East European Red Cross National Societies as a framework for mutual support in responding to local crises
  • The Tajikistan Red Crescent Society is working with the Ministry of Health, UNOPS, and other partners to design innovative community mobilisation strategies to address the risks of diabetes and hypertension as part of the Defeat NCDs partnership
Strengthening First Aid skills and services is a universal entry point for building resilience. In development

Regional Partners

  • In development

News

  • The Iraq Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has established a 1BC Platform in Iraq after the Humanitarian Forum meeting held in Baghdad in December 2018. Subsequently the Prime Minster’s office requested that IRCS take the lead in development of the Iraq National DRR strategy. The initial aim is to establish community resilience teams in all of the districts throughout Iraq, providing as well a framework for addressing climate change within the IRCS and partner strategies.
  • The Moroccan Red Crescent has also expressed interest to engage and is currently exploring potential resourcing to support initial activities.

Key Resources

  1. 1BC overview document (4 pages)
  2. Strategies for Scaling activity guide
  3. Local Action Kit

Progress to date

Existing projects:

calculating

people reached

1 billion people

Commitments:

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people targeted

1 billion people

See the 1BC Resilience Mapper for more details.

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The 1BC is an invitation to governments, aid organizations, the private sector, academia and community groups to collaborate on a new model, working alongside communities, and invest in initiatives and action to build resilience.

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