RedRose

RedRose delivers digital technology solutions for international development, enhancing accountability, transparency, and efficiency in humanitarian aid delivery.

RedRose's beneficiary data management and analytics platform kept a cash aid project operating through communication and power blackouts in Khartoum during Sudan's war. It allowed recipients to register even when distribution agents were offline, supporting aid delivery during disruptions to local infrastructure and field operations. The piece frames the experience as a potential lesson for Canadian cash aid programs.

Jun 2024 · Future of GoodNews article

The Norwegian Refugee Council works with payment processing vendor RedRose and Twilio messaging to provide cash assistance to people displaced by the war in Ukraine. RedRose sends applicants SMS and WhatsApp status updates so they know when assistance will arrive. Twilio presents the collaboration as a way to get cash to displaced people without delay.

Feb 2023 · Twilio BlogNews article

The British Red Cross credits RedRose’s ready-to-go data management system with supporting registration and cash delivery for its COVID-19 UK Hardship Fund. Deployed rapidly under a pre-existing IFRC service agreement, the system supports the fund, which has distributed £3.1 million in grants to more than 13,000 people by April 2021.

Apr 2021 · Cash Hub (British Red Cross)News article

The New Humanitarian traces how a voucher-issuing business line of UK-registered Noble House companies became companies operating under the Red Rose brand. The article says the companies were co-directed by then-senior GOAL employees Jeremy Cole and Jonathan Edgar, and covers USAID debarments in the Turkey-Syria aid procurement investigation.

Sep 2018 · The New Humanitarian (IRIN)News article