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Start Fund Risk Bulletin: October 2024

The October 2024 Start Fund Risk Bulletin highlights new and emerging crises, including abnormal heat affecting Libya, Algeria and Mali, a forecast spike in the dengue outbreak affecting countries across Central and South America, an update on La…

monthly risk bulletin august 2024
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Risk Bulletin: August 2024

The Start Fund monthly risk briefing reports on new, emerging or deteriorating situations; therefore, ongoing events that are considered to be unchanged are not featured and risks that are beyond the scope and scale of the Start Fund are also not…

Monthly Risk Bulletin Issued March 2024
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START FUND RISK BRIEF: March 2024

The Start Fund Risk Brief reports on new, emerging or deteriorating humanitarian situations across the globe. March's Risk Brief includes entries on the risk of severe flooding across East Africa, dengue outbreaks in Latin America and the Caribbean,…

Monthly Risk Bulletin Issued 15 January 2024
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START FUND RISK BRIEF: January 2024

The Start Fund monthly risk briefing outlines new, emerging or deteriorating humanitarian risks relevant to the Start Fund collated by the Start Network Crisis Anticipation and Risk Financing team. The brief this month features risks linked with El…

Monthly risk bulletin November
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RISK BULLETIN ISSUED: 15 November 2023

The monthly risk briefing reports on new, emerging or deteriorating situations; therefore, ongoing events that are considered to be unchanged are not featured and risks that are beyond the scope and scale of the Start Fund are also not featured. It…

Guidance Document

PRE-ALERT GUIDANCE NOTE - ANTICIPATING COLD WAVES

This pre-alert guidance note aims to support Start Network members to raise Start Fund anticipation alerts and act in advance of a crisis to prevent or reduce humanitarian impacts. This note includes advice on indicators and forecasts to predict cold…

Guidance Document

Pre-alert guidance note - drought

This document is designed to make it easier for agencies to raise Start Fund anticipatory alerts for drought, or to submit Start Fund project proposals when an alert has been activated.