‘Humanitarians often don’t stop for Christmas in the Philippines'. Start Network Members and the Philippines Red Cross convened in Manila in December to discuss how cyclones can be better anticipated moving forward alongside some of the challenges.
News and blogs
The Migration Emergency Response Fund (MERF) funded two projects in Agadez over the past year, both led by Doctors of the World (DOTW). Melina Koutsis, reflects on the impact of last year’s project and what lessons learned had been drawn from it for…
The following is a status update on the ARC Replica policy, dated 19th December 2018:
In this guest blog, Johannes Claes, Reporting and Advocacy Officer for Doctors of the World’s Niger Mission, tells us about its response to the relocation of vulnerable groups in Niger, supported by the Migration Emergency Response Fund (MERF).
Our video looks at the key milestones of the network between November 2017 and November 2018.
The month of October saw the highest alerting and activated month in the history of the Start Fund, where 13 alerts out of 15 were activated.
WNow that we have fostered innovations in our four Innovation labs, what are the next steps to take these inventions up into global scales?
Lets Start Evolve! Learn about the emergence of our first set of Start Network Hubs.
Funding opportunities nowadays are often competitive. How can the Start Network collaborate with its members (and their “family members”) to take advantage of such opportunities, rather than find themselves in competition with them?
Disaster risk financing and drought financing - all tools that we want to incorporate into the way humanitarian aid is managed. These will help us literally insure against damages to human life if a disaster was to strike.
Learn more about mixed migration flows, and how the MERF has been responding to those needs.
Learn how many people have been reached with the Crisis Anticipation Window and how we have been able to act before and disaster struck.