As Sierra Leone celebrates 42 days free of Ebola, we take a look at the success of the rapid response team training on Ebola, part of International Medical Corps's Start project in Guinea Bissau.
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On 29 October people from across the Start Network and others involved in the Disasters and Emergency Preparedness Programme (DEPP) met to discuss the new monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) project for the DEPP portfolio.
The Start Fund provides aggregation, a single point of entry for governments to access a large population of organisations, and the ownership and power is diverse across the Start Network
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.
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.
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).
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”.
Tanuja Pandit shares an update from the engine room of the Start Network.
Start for Change 2015: building new humanitarian solutions together is the Start Network's annual gathering to celebrate success and debate the strategy for the year ahead.
The importance of multi-level cooperation