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half of all human suffering in disasters is in small scale, low profile crises, which are not addressed by the aid system.
Hitendra Solanki, Mindfulness & Wellbeing Adviser for ACF-UK and The Start Network on the importance of being aware of mental health issues in humanitarian response.
The Start Network is seeking a Start Fund Officer to ensure our grant processes and information management systems are being run as efficiently as possible.
The Start Network is seeking two new colleagues to help grow our monitoring, evaluation and learning.
With the World Humanitarian Summit set to happen in Istanbul in May 2016, members of the Act Alliance are lobbying for the voices of marginalised, vulnerable and disaster-affected communities to be heard on the global stage.
A summary of small to medium scale crises that the Start Fund has been alerted to, between 16 September and 5 October 2015.
The Start Network has committed to prototype new financial models to ensure that the right solutions are funded at the right time to enable the best possible solutions to humanitarian crises.
Catherine Dennis, Protection in Practice Project Manager at Oxfam tells us what she has learned, one year on from the start of the Disasters Emergency Preparedness Programme (DEPP).
The Start Fund has allocated £161,802 to provide a rapid humanitarian response to an influx of returnees from Cameroon to Nigeria.
On the 21st of June 2015, a rebel group sabotaged an oil pipeline in the rural area of Tumaco (Pacific coast of Colombia) causing the “the worst environmental and social damage in the last ten years in Colombia”.