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.
News and blogs
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.
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.
Aid agencies will be enabled to tackle looming disasters before they have occurred, under a pioneering project being launched today by the Start Network.
The Start Network has joined a consultancy assignment to explore how structured risk management, using instruments such as insurance, could provide an important set of tools for protecting education investments.
Start Network has welcomed a further three new members, taking the organisation to 42 members across five continents.
Typhoon Haima is expected to intensify into a super typhoon as strong as Typhoon Haiyan before hitting northern Philippines tomorrow morning.
INFORM has released the results of its 2017 Global Risk Index.
The Disasters and Emergencies Preparedness Programme is delighted to announce its 2016 Learning Conference is now open for registrations.
As part of the Start Network’s Transforming Surge Capacity project, research into agencies' staff wellbeing and duty of care practices is being conducted.
The Start Network and Plan UK have launched a new project in Guinea-Bissau to work with and support local communities in preparing for potential outbreaks of the Zika virus.
This week the first collaborative regional roster for humanitarian response was launched in Bangkok.