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Our story

How the Centre came about, step by step.

  1. Before

    Finance support delivered one expert at a time

    National Societies needing finance expertise found it through whichever partner happened to be present, sometimes in silos, with no shared standard and no memory between engagements. A Society with no partner presence found nothing.

  2. 2023

    The Global Service Delivery Model

    The Movement agreed a model for delivering specialist services across the network rather than country by country. Finance was an obvious candidate and had no home.

  3. 2024

    A Movement agreement and a service framework

    The Global MoU was finalised and dissemination began, aligning the Norwegian Red Cross's finance support with the IFRC's mandate. The first Finance Development Framework standardised what a service is and what quality it has to meet. The concept for a dedicated Centre was drafted and presented to Norwegian Red Cross leadership and to IFRC in Geneva.

  4. 2025

    From concept to plan

    The Norwegian Red Cross and the IFRC built the Centre's roadmap and business plan together, and settled how the Centre and the Finance Development Competency Network would work as connected but distinct mechanisms. 28 National Societies were engaged that year, up from 21.

  5. 2026

    The catalogue, and pre-launch across five regions

    124 services across four tiers and five outcome areas, each with defined effort and deliverables, and one workflow every engagement follows: request, triage, delivery, quality assurance, report and KPIs. Briefings for finance directors and secretaries general in every region, the first engagements delivered, and the contribution bands published rather than negotiated case by case.

  6. Late 2026

    Launch at the IFRC General Assembly

    The governance bodies take up their full mandates and the Centre opens formally to all 191 National Societies.

  7. Toward 2030

    From host funding to network funding

    The Norwegian Red Cross core share is capped and steps down, while strategic member contributions and cost recovery grow to replace it.

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