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
Catholic Relief Services - United States Conference of Bishops
CADENA
Rural Empowerment and Institutional Development (REPID)
Cordaid
Sangtani Women Rural Development Organization (SWRDO)
Association for Gender Awareness & Human Empowerment (AGAHE)
Mechanism for Rational Change (MRC)
Islamic Relief
Caritas Sri Lanka
Humanity & Inclusion UK (Handicap International)
Asociación de Servicios Comunitarios de Salud (ASECSA)
Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD)
Bright Star Development Society Balochistan (BSDSB)
Age International
MIDEFEHOPS ASBL
War Child
Doctors of the World
Doaba Foundation
GOAL
Caritas India
Mercy Corps
Qatar Charity
Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS)
Plan International
TearFund
ActionAid
World Jewish Relief
Rural Development Foundation (RDF)
North-East Affected Area Development Society (NEADS)
Society for Mobilization Advocacy and Justice (SMAAJ)
Welfare Association Jared
PRO-VIDA
AFPDE asbl (Association des Femmes pour la Promotion et le Développement Endogène)
Medair
Manzil Organization Balochistan
Environmental Protection Society (EPS)
Oxfam GB
Initiative for Development and Empowerment Axis (IDEA)
EHD
Concern Worldwide (UK)
EHSAR Foundation
Save the Children UK
World Vision
Help Foundation
Health & Nutrition Development Society (HANDS)
Relief International
Trócaire
Community Development Foundation (CDF)
Sami Foundation
Rural Community Development Society (RCDS)
Action Against Hunger UK
Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e.V.
Caritas Goma
Dorcas Aid International
Yuganter
The Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA)
People in Need (PIN)
Azat Foundation
LASOONA
Cesvi
HelpAge International UK
National Integrated Development Association (NIDA-Pakistan)
Care International UK
Participatory Rural Development Society (PRDS)
ACTED
Laar Humanitarian and Development Programme (LHDP)
Muzaffarabad Poverty Alleviation Programme
Rural Development Organization Buner
Farmers Development Organization
Caritas Bangladesh
Solidarités International
Agricultural Development Association (PARC)
Muslim Aid
Nari Development Organization (NDO)
Community World Service Asia
Appui aux Femmes Démunies et Enfants Marginalisés (AFEDEM)
Veer Development Organization
Updates
All updates
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.
The Intersection of the Climate Crisis and Humanitarian Action: Engagement in UN Climate Change Conferences So Far and What It Means Ahead of COP29
Nearly 30 years ago, in March 1995, the first United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference, COP1, was held in Berlin, Germany.
Start Fund Risk Bulletin: September 2024
The September 2024 Start Fund Risk Bulletin highlights new and emerging crises, including severe flooding and disease outbreaks in West and Central Africa, a public emergency over rising Mpox cases in Africa, increasing conflict risk in Colombia, drought-induced isolation in Amazonas, a state of emergency in Namibia threatening food security, and upcoming elections in Sri Lanka, Tunisia, and Mozambique amid economic and political tensions.
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