CLIMATE CENTRE
Multi-hazard Data and Insights for Sub-Saharan Africa and MENA
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ABOUT
The International Committee of the Red Cross, in partnership with the Netherlands Red Cross data initiative 510, is helping humanitarian teams better understand where risks are rising across sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa. By combining climate, conflict, displacement, and vulnerability data into practical tools and a prioritisation index, the initiative turns fragmented data into clear, usable insights. This helps Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies and partners identify hotspots and make faster, more informed decisions in fragile and crisis-affected settings.
OBJECTIVES
The initiative focuses on developing a validated set of indicators and a country-adaptable prioritisation index, supported by automated data pipelines and an interactive tool. It aims to improve comparability across contexts, reduce manual analysis, and embed risk insights directly into operational workflows. By strengthening collaboration across partners and advancing shared methodologies, it enables more timely analysis, more strategic resource allocation, and more effective anticipatory action.
The OPTICC project empowers us to bring sharper insight by highlighting site‑specific risks and broader shifts in rapidly changing contexts, giving us the clarity we need to act with purpose.
Dr. Aditya Bahadur
Director, Red Cross Red Crescent
Climate Centre
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UPDATES
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CLIMATE RISK BRIEF
The Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre launched the research brief “Mapping Exposure to Climate-Related Hazards of Refugees and IDPs, revealing the exposure of over 64 million displaced people in 20 fragile and crisis-affected countries to compound climate risks.
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OPEN DATA FOR RISK ACTION
Catalina Jamie of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre explains how CRAF’d support enables open data and risk analysis tools. These help partners anticipate, prevent, and respond to climate risks with timely, evidence-based action across vulnerable, hazard-prone settings.
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PRESS RELEASE
CRAF’d funding will enable the Climate Centre, working in close collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), to integrate advanced risk data and analytics into decision-making processes across the MENA region and sub-Saharan Africa.
