12 October 2021

The climate crisis is a humanitarian crisis: Challenges and responses of local action to environmental displacement in Central America and Mexico

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The humanitarian sector is being heavily impacted by more frequent and more severe crises as a result of climate change. It is estimated that by 2050 1.6 billion people will be exposed to heatwaves and by 2030 147 million people will be affected by floods. For Latin America and specifically for the Mesoamerican region, droughts have increased and other disasters as a consequence of climate change have resulted in increased displacement, migration, food insecurity, and deaths. Unfortunately, the humanitarian sector remains reactive, slow, and centralised, hindering effective and efficient responses to crises.   Read more...

06 October 2021

Global FOREWARN Meeting Q3 2021 - Flooding

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Start Network Crisis Anticipation and Risk Financing team is pleased to invite you to the October FOREWARN Community meeting - with a focus on flooding. We will focus on the Start Fund experience of anticipating flooding, as well as Disaster Risk Finance work in Pakistan and FOREWARN community members' flooding work, tools and experiences.   Read more...

21 June 2021

Locally-led humanitarian action - How to advance the localisation agenda

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This session starts at 12:00 BST / 13:00 CEST This event is sponsored by the government of Switzerland, and organised by Start Network, UNFPA, UNICEF, IFRC and the Center for Global Development. As the Grand Bargain reaches its 5-year landmark, many organisations are rethinking and questioning how to move from commitments to actions, and how to build a system-wide shift towards locally-led humanitarian action. Please join us as we listen to experiences, recommendations, and learning from Farzana Ahmed, Start Fund Bangladesh.   Read more...