A team of local staff in Bangladesh met yesterday to decide how best to use a £200,000 allocation from the Start Fund for response to the recent flooding.
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The Start Fund launched in April for its six-month ‘design and build’ phase. Immediately, the first activation raised questions about the Fund’s scope and positioning.
As in many conflict zones, instability can affect project design and delivery. Changing needs, emerging gaps and population variances are recurring aspects of emergency response projects all too familiar to humanitarian organisations.
At the best of times, the movement of internally displaced people into a host community can strain already scarce resources and create tensions.
The sixth Start Fund allocation was made last week in response to the Cholera epidemic in Cameroon.
Yesterday the Start Fund allocated £155,970 to provide assistance to people affected by the recent escalation of fighting in Amran, Yemen.
Four projects are now underway with funding from the Start Fund to respond to the recent outbreak of Ebola in Sierra Leone.
The Start Network successfully completed its first test for decentralising decision making yesterday when a Start Fund project selection committee based in Nairobi met for the first time.
The second Start Fund activation took place this week in response to renewed displacement in Kachin, Myanmar
Today the Start Fund disbursed a total of £325,000 to fund four agency projects in South Sudan.
Following its launch yesterday, the Start Fund has been activated for the South Sudan crisis.
The humanitarian news and analysis forum IRIN has published a report on the Start Fund: NGOs look to a new humanitarian funding model.