We innovate to find new approaches to funding that are proactive and that reach people at risk quickly.
The Intersection of the Climate Crisis and Humanitarian Action
Engagement in UN Climate Change Conferences so far and what it means ahead of COP29.
Annual Report 2023
Our Annual Report 2023 speaks of our progress in delivering systemic shifts in power, practice, resources, and relationships and how we accelerate local leadership, anticipatory action, innovation, and anti-colonial policy and practice.
10 YEARS OF START FUND
This year marks a decade of impact for Start Network's Start Fund. Launched in 2014, the Start Fund has become a vital mechanism, empowering our circa 100 member organisations to deliver swift and anticipatory humanitarian action around the world.
A new era of humanitarian action
Start Network is made up of more than 90 humanitarian agencies across five continents, ranging from large international organisations to national NGOs
Our reach
Crisis alerts we respond to around the world.
FOREWARN DISASTER HACKATHON 2.0 IN BANGLADESH
FOREWARN Bangladesh introduces the country’s 2nd Hackathon on Disaster, striving to inspire young minds to build solutions, expand their knowledge horizons, and innovate on humanitarian challenges using open-source data and technologies.
Join us!
The missing link in localisation - Evidence to influence more effective, efficient, and equitable action
This report explores the existing evidence base and rationale for localisation to better understand how arguments for effectiveness, efficiency and equity in the localisation discourse are understood, evidenced and communicated. It identifies evidence of localisation impact as the missing link in the process of realising more effective advocacy and action on localisation ambitions.
Read moreAreas of work
Start Network’s vision is for a more balanced international aid system that is accountable to people affected by or at risk of crises.
Start Network is based on innovation: looking for new ways to create the system change that will shape a more effective humanitarian system.
Where we work
Americas
Americas
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Guatemala
Guatemala Hub
The hub has 11 local and national member organisations that are all community-based.
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Venezuela
Flooding in South America
Intense rains caused ravines to overflow and water systems to collapse in Venezuela.
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Central and South America
Start Fund Response
Start Fund provides rapid response funding to under-the-radar, small to medium-scale crises, filling a critical gap in the humanitarian aid system.
Europe
Europe
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Ukraine
The need for a more equitable humanitarian response
Start Network's approach to the Ukraine crisis is based on learning from other larger-scale crises that the Start Fund has responded to in the past.
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Serbia, Bulgaria
Migration Emergency Response Fund
The objective of the MERF was to rapidly respond to acute and emerging gaps and changes in needs along migration route.
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Greece, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Serbia
European Refugee Response
Start Network co-ordinated a two phase response to the European Refugee Crisis through ERR1 and ERR2.
Africa
Africa
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DRC
DRC Hub
The hub brings together nearly 60 local, national, and international organisations in DRC.
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DRC, Senegal, Zimbabwe
Start Ready
Start Ready is a unique financing mechanism that uses advanced planning so that funding can be rapidly released when needed most.
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Zimbabwe, Senegal
ARC Replica
ARC Replica is a partnership with African Risk Capacity and African Union member states that helps African countries proactively manage climate-related risks through disaster risk insurance.
Asia
Asia
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Bangladesh, Nepal
National Start Funds
National Start Funds are there to finance locally led humanitarian action, with members managing their own funds for the benefit of their own communities.
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India
INDIA HUMANITARIAN HUB
The India Humanitarian Hub (IHH) prioritises locally led action and leadership by bringing together local, national, and international humanitarian agencies that are operational in India.
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The Philippines, Bangladesh
FOREWARN
The Forecast-based, Warning, Analysis, and Response Network aims to quickly bring together the right people to predict disasters and support humanitarians closest to an anticipated crisis.
Oceania
Oceania
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Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Samoa, Kiribati
Pacific Region Hub
The Pacific Humanitarian FALE is working to engage locally led humanitarian actors so that they can provide services that ensure the lives of people are safeguarded in any crisis.
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Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Samoa, Kiribati
THE LOCALISATION OF HUMANITARIAN ACTION IN THE PACIFIC
Josie Flint from HAG speaks about the work they have been doing and the influence that the Start Network has had on this.
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Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Samoa, Kiribati
Assembly held in Fiji, FALE-PASIFIKA
The word "fale" refers to a house that is meaningful and has a purpose when people occupy it.
Our members
Rural Development Foundation (RDF)
Dorcas Aid International
Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e.V.
Azat Foundation
Asociación de Servicios Comunitarios de Salud (ASECSA)
Agricultural Development Association (PARC)
Mechanism for Rational Change (MRC)
Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD)
Caritas Goma
Sangtani Women Rural Development Organization (SWRDO)
Medair
HelpAge International UK
Catholic Relief Services - United States Conference of Bishops
People in Need (PIN)
Community World Service Asia
Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS)
Doctors of the World
Farmers Development Organization
Caritas India
Participatory Rural Development Society (PRDS)
Concern Worldwide (UK)
Solidarités International
Environmental Protection Society (EPS)
Caritas Bangladesh
Welfare Association Jared
Age International
World Vision
Relief International
Bright Star Development Society Balochistan (BSDSB)
Help Foundation
GOAL
ActionAid
World Jewish Relief
National Integrated Development Association (NIDA-Pakistan)
Humanity & Inclusion UK (Handicap International)
Laar Humanitarian and Development Programme (LHDP)
Plan International
TearFund
Rural Empowerment and Institutional Development (REPID)
Doaba Foundation
Muzaffarabad Poverty Alleviation Programme
Manzil Organization Balochistan
Nari Development Organization (NDO)
Care International UK
PRO-VIDA
Cordaid
Veer Development Organization
ACTED
EHD
Initiative for Development and Empowerment Axis (IDEA)
Qatar Charity
The Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA)
Health & Nutrition Development Society (HANDS)
AFPDE asbl (Association des Femmes pour la Promotion et le Développement Endogène)
MIDEFEHOPS ASBL
Rural Community Development Society (RCDS)
Action Against Hunger UK
Trócaire
War Child
LASOONA
Sami Foundation
Islamic Relief
Save the Children UK
Appui aux Femmes Démunies et Enfants Marginalisés (AFEDEM)
Caritas Sri Lanka
Society for Mobilization Advocacy and Justice (SMAAJ)
Mercy Corps
Cesvi
Community Development Foundation (CDF)
Rural Development Organization Buner
Muslim Aid
EHSAR Foundation
Yuganter
North-East Affected Area Development Society (NEADS)
Oxfam GB
CADENA
Association for Gender Awareness & Human Empowerment (AGAHE)
Updates
All updates
H&M Foundation to support crisis anticipation and early action across eight countries
H&M Foundation has announced a significant investment of €660,000 to support Start Network’s flagship disaster risk financing programme, Start Ready.
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 Niña risk as ahead of the forecast entering of conditions…
Start Ready Risk Pool 2 Summary Report
In the second Start Ready risk pool, Start Network provided protection to 685,619 people in 7 countries, from 11 climate risks.
LOCALLY-LED CLIMATE RISK FINANCING
Start Ready was designed to be one of the practical ways that civil society can more effectively address loss and damage caused by climate change.
REVIEW OF GENDER IN START FUND PROJECTS
This review aims to assess the extent to which gender considerations have been successfully integrated throughout Start Network members’ and their partner agencies’ activities implemented as part of the Start Fund alert cycle.
SYSTEM CHANGE INITIATIVES IN THE HUMANITARIAN SECTOR
This situational analysis explores where the Start Network’s Hubs model sits within a broader landscape of initiatives that are working in some of the Hub contexts (or across them) to bring about a more localised system.
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