British Red Cross Strategic Insight & Foresight team service offer.

1. Strategic Insight
& Foresight:
Service Offer

2. Foresight: building scenarios for future humanitarian needs; horizon scanning; PESTLE and SWOT
analysis; facilitating scenario planning workshops; analyses of emerging needs and vulnerabilities.
Insight / data analysis: maps and area/community profiles showing potential needs, vulnerability, and
capacity relating to our strategic causes; statistical advice; guidance on data visualisation.
Research: analyses of cohorts affected by disasters, displacement, and/or health inequalities; rapid
reviews of evidence; evidence summaries; designing, conducting/commissioning, and analysing
surveys; advising on research design; conducting and analysing expert interviews.
Decision-making: rigorous frameworks, tools, and advice for quality decision-making.
How can we support you?
> Resilience Index: mapping vulnerability to
disasters and health inequalities
> Insight tools and web apps
> Early action briefings
> Thematic insight packs
What else do we do?

3. We are a team of researchers and analysts who support high-quality decision-making and problem-
solving through analysing data, conducting qualitative research, reviewing evidence, building tools, and
developing scenarios about the future.to anticipate emerging needs, vulnerability, and crises.
Who are we?
What do we want to achieve?
> Embedding our insights into existing decision-support tools (such as dashboards), with people feeling
confident using them.
> High-quality decision-making that is un-siloed and has a solid, actionable evidence base.
> BRC makes better-informed and future-oriented decisions.
> The Strategic Insight & Foresight team becomes recognised as a service.

4. Who to talk to
Matt Thomas, Head of Strategic Insight
& Foresight
Talk to him about new pieces of work,
strategy, decision-making tools, scenario
planning, research, statistics, and the
Resilience Index.
Clare Darlow, Strategic Insight Lead
Talk to her about new pieces of work,
insight packs, early action briefings,
research, and current team priorities.
Freya Neason, Insight Officer
Talk to her about research, evidence
reviews, interviews, qualitative analysis,
early action briefings, and insight packs.
Mike Page, Data Scientist
Talk to him about the Resilience Index,
data analysis, and statistics.

5. Resilience Index: The Disasters & Emergencies version is part of the VCSEP’s Emergencies Toolkit
and our Health Inequalities Index is in our NHS Capacity Tool. We have also written a guide to using
the Resilience Index.
Foresight: Scenarios for Ukraine, including a deep-dive on refugees and broader humanitarian
consequences; early action briefings for winter 2021-22 and Omicron/vaccinations; PESTLE analyses
for the three strategic causes (coming soon).
Insight packs: Some of our recent packs include health system pressures, and profiles of Scotland
and Northern Ireland. Insight packs from 2020 and 2021 are on the VCSEP’s website, covering topics
including food insecurity and broader economic insecurity, lockdowns, mental health, vaccinations,
and vaccine hesitancy.
Where to find our insights

6. > Developing the Disasters & Emergencies Resilience Index and the Health Inequalities Index,
integrating them into other BRC tools, such as dashboards
> Providing insights, horizon scans, and scenarios for strategic cause planning
> Producing a risk profile for Wales
> Writing ‘early action briefings’
> Researching cohorts of people affected by health inequalities and by migration and
displacement, focusing on our priority outcomes
> Building an emergency planning tool with the VCSEP
> Building a health inequalities atlas for our health services
Some of our plans for 2022