Yitna Tekaligne, country director, Christian Aid Ethiopia, discusses new approaches to tackling poverty and gives examples from four social enterprises in Kenya.
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It’s home to 50,000 people, living in regimented rows of identical white portable cabins in an arid, cold and windy region of Jordan. Some have been living there for more than three years – men, women and children from across Syria. Many of the…
Lina al Tarazi, Programme Field Coordinator with the Royal Health Awareness Society (RHAS) in Jordan, reflects on her experience of participating in Context, a programme led by Oxfam GB as part of the Start Network's Talent Development DEPP project.…
The Start Network is delighted to announce details of the Disasters and Emergencies Preparedness Programme (DEPP) Innovation Labs has launched a worldwide search for organisations to run the new labs.
Martin Dawes, CDAC Network, speaks to people involved in DEPP projects in Ethiopia and Myanmar.
Catrina Stewart reports for Start Network on how one DEPP project in northern Kenya has tapped into an unusual source of tribal peacemaking - their children.
Martin Dawes from the CDAC Network, a partner on the Disasters and Emergency Preparedness Programme (DEPP) discusses localisation and what it means to different people in the sector.
Diana Hiscock, Disability Adviser at HelpAge International, considers the impact of "attitude" on our perception of events, and how this can shape our behaviour.
Revolutionary “blockchain” technology that could transform how the world does business is to be tested by the Start Network through the Start Fund, in the first ever trial of its use in rapid response to humanitarian crisis.
Save the Children's Carol Hatchett shares messages from people involved in Talent Development, a project which brings organisations together to build local capacities.
Aid agencies will be enabled to tackle looming disasters before they have occurred, under a pioneering project being launched today by the Start Network.
Start Network's Luke Caley looks at how the Start Fund has learned to anticipate - and what's coming next