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This blog is written from the perspective of someone working in an international humanitarian network, speaking to others in international humanitarian institutions.
The Start Network membership of more than 80 local, national, and international aid organisations is deeply worried by the current humanitarian crisis as a result of the conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
A locally led humanitarian system is only possible through innovating, experimenting and testing different ways of working.
Reflecting on humanitarian trends over the past decade, one thing is clear: localisation and/or locally led action are ways of working that are here to stay.
This grant sought to enable the creation of new methodologies to measure the success and impact of humanitarian interventions. The Community-Led Approaches to Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Research Grant was created in…
In the second risk pool, £4.5m has been stretched to £7.3m to protect communities against droughts, floods, cyclones and heatwaves in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Somalia, Pakistan, Philippines, Bangladesh, Madagascar and Senegal. Sarah…
A podcast series making the case for locally led humanitarian action.
Start Network is pleased to announce US$4.2 million of new funding to help protect people in Somalia from ever-worsening drought. The pay out is a result of a collaboration between the Federal Government of Somalia, African Risk Capacity and the UK…
Start Network is launching the #StartLocal - a live repository that compiles examples of locally led work.
Start Network members are actively coordinating to support communities impacted by the earthquakes that occurred in Türkiye and Syria early morning yesterday.
Humanitarian crises are on the rise. This is not a surprise for people working in the international aid sector; we have seen an increase in the number and scale of these around the world.