ANNUAL
REPORT
2023

TRANSFORMATION
AND CHANGE

Medical mission of CADENA in Peru

FOREWORD FROM THE CEO AND CFOO

This 2023 Annual Report marks the end of the Start Network Strategy 2021- 2023. Launched in early 2021 and aptly entitled “Transformation and Change,” the strategy reflected the uncertainty and opportunity of its time:

The Covid-19 pandemic had both demonstrated the effectiveness of local responses and exposed the hypocrisy in the international aid systems, which retreated from their localisation commitments when they should have been leaning into them.

The Black Lives Matter movement had surfaced latent racism, colonialism, and power inequalities in the sector, compelling international organisations to examine and adjust their own demographics, structures, and behaviours.

Economic recession and declining official development assistance (ODA) in most donor economies had prompted donor restructuring, most importantly the merger of the UK’s development and foreign offices, and forced aid organisations to refocus, reprioritise, and scale back.

Many countries had experienced recent, deadly climate shocks, many of which were predictable and preventable, testing the commitment of societies and the courage of leaders to make deep changes in global policies and behaviours.

That time of transformation and change had thrown down an important gauntlet for Start Network to deepen our commitment to systemic shifts in power, practice, resources, and relationships and accelerate local leadership, anticipatory action, innovation, and anti-colonial policy and practice. In the three years since, Start Network has taken up that challenge and achieved considerable progress:

We grew our membership to close to 100 local, national, and international members, more than half of whom are local, working across six continents, and began transitioning to a decentralised, hubs-based ‘network of networks’ membership model.

We shifted network power to local and national organisations by supporting 10 locally-led hubs as well as coalitions of local, national, and international organisations working together to improve humanitarian action.

We shifted resources to civil society organisations and increasingly local organisations through the global Start Fund. Since its inception until the end of 2023, it has disbursed more than £128 million, assisting more than 26 million people in 76 countries. More than £4.7 million has gone directly to local organisations. In 2023, 23% of funds disbursed were allocated in anticipation of crises.

We have made network resources available ahead of crises through Start Ready, a leading-edge anticipatory financing facility and risk pool of £5 million that has allowed us to move from assisting people in need to protecting people at risk. We have influenced the anticipatory action policy agenda through our evidence and experience.

We have shifted network practice and behaviour to be anti-colonial and driven by community priorities, especially through our Community-Led Innovation Programme, and we have provided platforms and opportunities to amplify community impact on a global scale. The journey has not been easy, giving rise to strategic tensions and trade-offs as well as prompting fundamental questions about our positioning and our ability to bring about transformational shifts. However, in that process, we have identified our strengths, crystallised our value offer, and improved our practice to better support our members and hubs.

As we embark on our strategy for 2024 to 2026, we know that the transformation and change of the past three years, and its lessons, will serve us well.

THE FIVE KEYS OF SYSTEM CHANGE

Start Network’s Three-Year Strategy: A Catalyst for Locally-Led Action

In 2021, Start Network launched a new strategy to further our goals of decentralising the humanitarian system. This strategy was founded on our experience with locally-led systems being the best response to crises. By shifting power to locally-led and collaborative actions, this strategy aimed to build a robust “network of networks,” fuelled by a ‘family of funds’ and underpinned by a culture of innovation and learning.

As this strategy period comes to a close, Start Network once again affirms our goal of humanitarian system change by empowering locally-led communities to address their own concerns. By working with these actors, we will continue to innovate and model the change needed for the sector to evolve. Through our innovative funding programmes and membership structure, we will ensure that financing is equitably distributed among our network of networks, governance is distributed between our members, and local perspectives inform decision-making.

Member representative Anuarite Kabou Kalunga (MIDEFEHOPS ASBL) attended the Africa Climate Week © MIDEFEHOPS ASBL

SHIFTING OUR PURPOSE (2021-2023)

WHO WE ARE

Start Network is a membership of nearly 100 local, national, and international organisations, working across six continents to tackle what we see as the most significant systemic problems in the humanitarian sector.

OUR VALUES

We put people first. | We are brave. | We operate collectively. | We are inclusive. | We are open. | We are ethical.

Community awareness session on safeguarding and accountability © MMS

SHIFTING OUR POWER (2021-2023)

WHY DECENTRALISE THE HUMANITARIAN SYSTEM?

The current humanitarian system, a network of international organisations with shared goals, relies on a limited pool of donor funding that often reaches local actors only after passing through multiple layers of bureaucracy.

Recognising these limitations, Start Network champions a decentralised approach. We aim to shift power, resources, decision-making, and programme implementation to local organisations. We develop a “network of networks” through our locally and regionally established hubs with decision-making powers in collaboration with local and national partners.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2023

EVALUATING HUB POTENTIAL TO LEAD SYSTEM CHANGE

The Wasafiri review compared Start Network’s hub model to other initiatives based on Start Network’s five keys: purpose, power, practice, resources, and relationships. The analysis assessed how these initiatives are driving system change, offering insights into the potential role and impact of the Start Network Hubs.

SHIFT THE POWER CONFERENCE BOGOTÁ

The conference gathered 700 participants from 70 different countries. The event highlighted how organisations are creating meaningful change in the areas where they operate. It also focused on various localisation efforts in the humanitarian landscape and how this model is creating new ways to channel resources to local organisations. Furthermore, the event opened space for conversation and shared experiences that served as inspiration for participants.

HUB CONNECT 2023

We aim to support connections across the peerhub network by facilitating online and in-person spaces where hubs can connect, make key decisions together, tackle complex challenges, and drive the future of the network. In 2023, hubs attended Hub Connect, the annual conference that brings hubs and Start Network staff together from across the globe.

EXTERNAL EVALUATION: ACCOUNTABILITY TO AFFECTED POPULATIONS IN START FUND PROCESSES AND START FUND PROJECTS

In June 2023, the Start Fund commissioned Tsunagu B.V. to conduct an annual external evaluation to assess the integration of accountability to affected populations (AAP) principles and practices in Start Fund projects. The review considered the challenges of short timeframes (72 hours for alert raising to project selection and 45-60 days for implementation). Additionally, it tested the assumption that locally-led action promotes better accountability.

OPTIMISATION OF FUNDING FOR LOCALLY-LED NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS

In 2023, Start Network worked with the Guatemala Hub to introduce Start Ready to the country. Composed mostly of locally-led Non-Government Organisations (LLNGOs), the Hub’s members will be eligible to receive funding through the programme. Member groups of the Guatemala Hub can participate either as consortium leads or as partner organisations.

AFGHANISTAN HUB

The Afghanistan Humanitarian Hub is a network of local, national, and international humanitarian and private sector actors working together to reduce human suffering in Afghanistan. The hub aims to build a community that supports humanitarian action and advocacy informed by evidence of the needs and priorities of the people affected by crises. Additionally, it seeks long-term,proactive, and durable solutions to problems.

2023 Progress

Grassroots structures in the Afghanistan hub have been developing a community charter. Functioning as a framework, the charter is set to guide NGOs entering the community to actively engage with and follow the set of principles that the charter contains.
Leveraged connectivity for innovation/hub development.
The Hub is in the initial stages of financial modelling.

Future Plans

Continue working to solidify the hub’s foundation and achieve its mission, as well as work towards incubation.

BANGLADESH HUB

The Bangladesh Hub was established from the long-standing organisation Start Fund Bangladesh. An emerging operation in South Asia, the Hub has multiple initiatives currently in place in Bangladesh. These include the national Start Fund, FOREWARN Bangladesh, and a DRF programme which focuses on flooding and cyclones in eight districts, and an organisational strengthening initiative.

2023 Progress

The Bangladesh Hub has moved into the incubation phase after completing its exploration milestones.
A constitution has been developed to guide the Hub as a collective. The Hub’s registration process is also underway.

Future Plans

The Bangladesh Hub is set to work towards two of its major identified bottlenecks:

the top-down system of decision-making, which is the current process being observed

the limited participation of affected people in the process of decision-making.

The Hub also aims to empower affected people and strengthen their role in decisions that can impact them or their community.

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

The DRC Hub comprises 60 local, national, and international organisations working together to strengthen communities with the aim of making them resilient to various disasters to which they are exposed from 2022-2026. The hub is supported by a collaborative partnership between the government, NGOs, CSOs, CBOs, affected communities, academia, and the private sector. Together, they are building a humanitarian system that is more inclusive, independent, proactive, and conscious of collective responsibility.

2023 Progress

The financial modelling for the Hub is nearing completion.
Two members of the Hub have participated in the Partnership Broker’s Association foundation course.
The Hub is in the process of developing policy documents such as code of conduct, safeguarding policy, and a complaints and response mechanism.
Development of a disaster risk financing model and contingency plans for flooding.

Future Plans

The Hub’s main focus is resource mobilisation and expanding its reach through local partnerships.

The Hub shall also concentrate on:

establishing sub-hubs to broaden its scope

engaging local members for greater impact

collaborating with INGOs, NGOs, academia, and the government

promoting localisation efforts

GUATEMALA HUB

The Guatemala Hub has 11 local and national organisations that are community-based. Together, they are centred on advocating for the right to disaster preparedness and humanitarian response. The Hub additionally supports activities that foster solidarity and cohesion among the communities they serve. In 2023, the Hub was involved with the Community-led Innovation Partnership (CLIP) Programme. As part of CLIP, the Guatemala Hub is leading an initiative on community- led innovation approaches with indigenous Mayan communities.

2023 Progress

The first phase of the CLIP programme was completed. Through the programme, the Guatemala Hub developed an innovation model for climate-related crisis response that is based on Mayan cosmovision and indigenous knowledge.
The Hub has done assessments to find out which hazards are relevant to the Guatemala context in order to build a disaster risk financing system local to the country
Members of the Hub have developed governance documents focused on organisation structure, leadership, and overall hub management.
The Community Led Innovation Programme concluded innovative projects on disaster resilience that are based on indigenous knowledge and practices.

Future Plans

Achieve an independent and sustainable hub with national and international recognition

INDIA HUB

The India Humanitarian Hub (IHH) prioritises local leadership in India’s humanitarian landscape. It brings together local, national, and international agencies to catalyse innovative approaches and facilitate activities that are beyond the scope and culture of the current humanitarian architecture.

2023 Progress

The Hub’s locally led processes were strengthened through the implementation of its rules of engagement, which require at least 60% of its members to be local organisations, with the remaining 40% coming from INGOs.
Launched membership intake, with the aim of ensuring diversity of focus areas / expertise, and representation of members across geographic regions in India, particularly those in disaster-prone areas

Future Plans

The India Humanitarian Hub will prioritise Hub assembly while strengthening its governance and finalising new membership intake. It will also focus on localisation and building local networks

PACIFIC REGION HUB

The “FALE-Pasifika” (Facility Aiding Locally Led Engagement) Hub brings together civil society organisations from 24 countries and territories in the Pacific Region. Through innovative, locally-led coordination, it seeks to achieve a rapid, quality, efficient, and inclusive response that meets the needs of affected people.

2023 Progress

The Hub has endorsed a localisation framework for NGOs and CSOs in the region.

PAKISTAN HUB

The Pakistan Hub, also known as Resilient Early Actions to Disasters around the Year or READY Pakistan, champions a transformative approach to humanitarian action. It strives to build a proactive, resilient, people-centred, and locally-led ecosystem. READY Pakistan is a collaborative effort bringing together Pakistani communities, civil society organisations, and the Pakistan National Disaster Management Authority. Its national steering committee has a diverse membership, with representatives from international NGOs, national NGOs, and major national humanitarian and development networks.

2023 Progress

Finalised financial modelling, developed a resource mobilisation strategy, established an accountability mechanism, and set up a Hub secretariat
For Start Ready Risk Pool 2, Pakistan had three DRF systems receiving coverage following the activations for heatwaves, riverine floodings, and drought. Under Risk Pool 2, the activation for drought received a prepositioned amount of £600,000, which is estimated to cover the protection of 105,632 people.

Future Plans

Ready Pakistan will be the leading platform for anticipatory action. It will be a legal entity that connects with all stakeholders, such as academia, government, the private sector, local NGOs, and INGOs.
The Hub will focus on maximum coverage of anticipatory action to reach more affected people. It will also concentrate on accessing new streams of resources and capacity building for members.
Promotion of localisation

PHILIPPINES HUB

The Philippines Hub will serve as a model for localisation and resilience through a whole-of- society approach, which includes working on three aspects and levels:

organisational level (for member- organisations);
community level (for local areas and groups);
societal level (for government agencies, especially local government units, and other stakeholders).

Its vision and mission are to establish resilient local communities empowered to lead humanitarian, peace, and development initiatives. The Hub also aims to promote a culture of solidarity that guides responses and effective services led by duty-bearers in collaboration with locally led civil society and the wider community.

2023 Progress

The Philippines Hub has progressed through the exploration phase of Hub development, completing the exploration milestones and defining its vision and mission for the Hub.
The Philippines Hub is still in formation, but already some of the Start Network and Hub members have collaborated to develop a DRF programme. This programme is focusing on tropical cyclones in 11 municipalities in three provinces, with pre-approved contingency plans co-created with local NGOs and vulnerable communities to provide humanitarian assistance ahead of time

Future Plans

The Hub will move to the incubation phase, guided by the co-designed readiness framework, where a hub must strengthen its governance, network, and programmes and work towards sustainability.

SOMALIA HUB

The Somali Humanitarian Hub aims to establish a pooled anticipatory and emergency response fund/mechanism that local Somali organisations can access. It brings together 8 Somali organisations and 2 INGOs to drive forward civil society innovation and development. Members of the Somali Humanitarian Hub possess demonstrated expertise and decades of experience working on humanitarian issues in Somalia and Somaliland, with strategic operations across the region.

2023 Progress

The Hub entered incubation, enabling it to bring on members, request and raise funds, and launch new programmes.
All 8 local members were approved by the Start Network Assembly, pending the successful completion of Start Network due diligence.
DRF models were launched in 2023 under Start Ready, covering droughts in Somalia. The total prepositioned amount to cover the risk amounted to £750,000. The Hub participated in global events such as AIDEX, Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week Geneva, and the Africa Dialogue on Anticipatory Action.
The Hub also engaged with key donors such as Global Giving and USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) and will be advancing the conversations.

Future Plans

Provide a platform for Somali organisations for networking, learning, and capacity strengthening
Strengthen the localisation agenda in Somalia/land through locally-led evidence- based research and advocacy
Advance awareness, advocacy, and innovative programming to address long-term community resilience in Somalia/land
Establish a pooled anticipatory and emergency response fund for local organisations in Somalia/land, centrally managed and fundraised by the Hub

SOUTH SUDAN HUB

The South Sudan hub was convened and initiated by a group of women-led organisations in the country. The Hub has three main priority areas that it seeks to address:

humanitarian funding, including risk financing
innovation for intervention sustainability market and private sector engagement
advocacy to bring about localisation goals for local and national actors

2023 Progress

The South Sudan Hub attended Start Network’s Hub Incubation Workshop in February 2023, launching its hub formation and initiating an innovation programme.

Members for the Community Response Facility (Youth volunteers) during earth quake response in Herat province Afghanistan

Community Consultation by ActionAid and partner at Chattogram © ActionAid

Access to drinking water thanks to the Start Ready project run by AFPDE in Kindu. © Mr Honoré Ciraba, membre de la commission programme du Hub RDC

Guatemala Hub presenting their innovations during the CLIP Annual Workshop © Start Network

IHH member organization, Caritas India boosts Rural Economy through Diversified Livelihoods with their program © Caritas India

Tonga response local community

Engaging Participation by READY Pakistan member organisations at Annual General Assembly 2023 © Nadia Zafar, READY Pakistan

Philippine Hub representative sharing her insights during Hub Connect 2023 in Kenya © Start Network

Hub Connect 2023 in Kenya © Start Network

Start Network hubs are collectives of local, national, and international organisations or humanitarian responders operating in the same country or region. Hubs come together through a vision of system change to tackle the deep-rooted issues in humanitarian responses within their countries. They control their own resources and define their own responses to crises affecting their communities. They are supported by the global Start Network.

Hubs advocate for the right to disaster preparedness and humanitarian response, set up programmes for disaster risk financing, and empower local innovators. The specific initiatives of our various hubs are listed below:

AFGHANISTAN HUB

Locally-led anticipatory humanitarian action and humanitarian social enterprise

BANGLADESH HUB

Start Fund Bangladesh
Disaster Risk Financing Programme for cyclones
FOREWARN Bangladesh

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO HUB

Community-led Innovation Programme
Disaster Risk Financing Programme focused on communities at risk of flooding

GUATEMALA HUB

Community-led Innovation Programme focused on Indigenous communities
Disaster Risk Financing Programme (established in 2023 and still under development)

INDIA HUMANITARIAN HUB

Innovation hub focused on enabling local innovators to address humanitarian issues

PACIFIC REGION HUB (FALE-PASIFIKA)

Community-led learning from crises and crisis response

PHILIPPINE HUB

Disaster Risk Financing Programme for cyclones

READY PAKISTAN (PAKISTAN HUB)

Multi-hazard disaster risk financing for events such as drought, floods, and heatwaves

SOMALIA HUB

Supporting communities and empowering them to manage climate-related risks such as drought

SOUTH SUDAN HUB

Partner with women-led organisations

Exploring locally-led financing mechanisms

IHH member organization, NEADS team, along with the community members and school going children participated in awareness generation meetings, plantation drives and environmental campaigns on World Environment day. © NEADS

SHIFTING OUR PRACTICE (2021-2023)

START FUND BANGLADESH: CREATING A DATABASE OF THOSE MOST AT RISK

The Start Fund Bangladesh team and other members in the country are developing a common list of vulnerable people in risk prone areas to improve anticipatory action. The database, informed by local knowledge and experiences, is accessible to all Start Fund Bangladesh member agencies and will give them a better overview of at-risk areas to help them mount a rapid response when disaster strikes.

In 2023, four Alerts were made by Start Fund Bangladesh. 21,902 people from at-risk communities who were affected by cyclones, riverbank erosion, and flash floods were supported with the disbursement of £380,000.

FOREWARN DISASTER HACKATHON

FOREWARN Bangladesh, in partnership with Open Mapping Hub Asia-Pacific, also launched a Natural Disaster Hackathon in 2023. The hackathon was the first of its kind in Bangladesh, encouraging young people to devise their own solutions and innovations for addressing disaster preparedness using open source technology and data such as OpenStreetMap.

Participants were tasked to find solutions to challenges such as the development of early warning systems and creating tools for improving coordination and communication for anticipatory action. FOREWARN Bangladesh provided mentorship and support during the hackathon to equip participants with the knowledge they needed to fully utilise open mapping.

CROSS-LEARNING IN NEPAL: ENSURING MEMBER PROJECTS TRANSITION SMOOTHLY TO THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Locally-led programmes, while community-driven, may still encounter challenges during their turnover to other organisations, as is often the case with changes in project ownership. Start Fund Nepal’s awarded agencies are encouraged to capacitate would-be project owners through cross-learning and knowledge transfer.

At the end of each Start Fund Nepal project, members conducted exit meetings with the local government and relevant agencies, allowing for a cross sharing of learnings and challenges that facilitated a smooth handover. The exit meetings later became a Project Selection Committee (PSC) recommendation for every alert.

DECENTRALISED INTAKE PROCESS: INDIA AND THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

Start Network has prioritised decentralisation in hub processes, allowing Hubs to design their own protocols relevant to their contexts. Among the hubs, the India and DRC Hubs have been able to develop their own intake processes separate from the Start Network global membership intake. This practice has strengthened the role of local and national organisations in decision-making and adopting a joining process suited to their needs, ensuring that the intake process is contextualised and led by the hub leadership. Going forward, hubs will be leading their intake processes with support from Start Network.

BUILDING BETTER START NETWORK FUNDS

In 2023, Start Network sought ways to improve the global Start Fund’s connection with the hubs to allow for more relevant and local engagement and decision making. A pilot test was conducted with the DRC Hub, which had proven to be suitable due to its high engagement, familiarity with the Start Fund, and substantial readiness to operate independently.

The six-month pilot was an initiative for promoting localisation where hub representatives are able to select adaptations they find most relevant to their capacities and decision making contexts. While still a work in progress and in need of further testing, the protocol serves as a crucial starting point for building better interactions between hubs in incubation and the global Start Fund.

IMPROVING HUB CAPACITY ON SYSTEMS CHANGE AND INNOVATION

In 2023, Start Network’s System Innovation and Change teams supported the Afghanistan, South Sudan, and Somalia local and national hub members through a series of workshops and feedback mechanisms. As hubs in incubation, it was crucial that the initial training focused on innovation and system change to prepare hubs for enacting their own locally led programmes.

COMMUNITY LED INNOVATION INITIATIVES

In 2023, Start Network supported four hubs, DRC, Guatemala, India and South Sudan, to run community-led innovation initiatives. Community led innovation is a user-centred design approach to humanitarian programming that places crisis affected communities at heart.

Communities are enabled to develop their own innovative solutions to humanitarian problems building on their local knowledge and innate problem solving, becoming agents of change in their contexts.

Cash for work for the construction of road at community in N-17 Nepal, Anticipation-Flooding and Inundation Lumbini Province © Plain International Nepal, Banke Unesco Club, Start Fund Nepal, UK Aid

India Humanitarian Hub innovators training

SHIFTING OUR RESOURCES (2021-2023)

UNDERSTANDING OUR APPROACH TO FUNDING

Start Network leverages two major financial instruments to help address humanitarian crises across the globe. The global Start Fund responds to small-to-medium-scale crises and provides rapid funding with member-led decision-making. Start Ready is our risk financing mechanism that pools risks and acts in anticipation of crises. We also support two national Start Funds in Bangladesh and Nepal. These are modelled on the global Start Fund.

THE GLOBAL START FUND, START FUND BANGLADESH, AND START FUND NEPAL

Start Network leverages two major financial instruments to help address humanitarian crises across the globe. The global Start Fund responds to small-to-medium-scale crises and provides rapid funding with member-led decision-making. Start Ready is our risk financing mechanism that pools risks and acts in anticipation of crises. We also support two national Start Funds in Bangladesh and Nepal. These are modelled on the global Start Fund.

START FUND

In 2023, the Start Fund disbursed over £17.8 million to a combination of local and international NGOs across our membership. Our suite of member-led response funds provides rapid response funding focused on three types of humanitarian needs: underfunded small- to medium-scale crises, forecasts of impending crises, and spikes in chronic humanitarian crises.

NATIONAL START FUNDS

National Start Funds provide the same contingency funding at the national level, where the power to decide and to act is held as locally as possible by community-based NGOs. As developments from the global Start Fund, each national Start Fund is a rapid emergency fund that activates within 72 hours of any alert.

START FUND BANGLADESH (SFB)

Since its inception, SFB has grown to 47 members of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) and local and national non-governmental organisations (LNNGOs), following a comprehensive mapping and due diligence process. Its current membership consists of 21 INGO members and 26 national and local members.

START FUND NEPAL (SFN)

Start Fund Nepal was initially a 21-member programme with 6 LNNGOs during its first phase. It was later expanded to accommodate 16 LNNGOs and 16 INGOs, for a total of 32 member organisations.

START READY

Start Ready is Start Network’s risk financing mechanism that pools funds and risks so that funding can be stretched further. It is changing the way that humanitarians are working—from reacting to crises to empowering communities to take a more proactive stance to prevent them.

We also continued our Disaster Risk Financing partnership with African Risk Capacity (ARC) through the ARC Replica programme. The ARC Replica programme allows non-governmental organisations like Start Network to work side-by-side with governments to manage these risks.

EMPOWERING LOCAL SUPPORT THROUGH NATIONAL RESERVES

Taking anticipatory action before disaster strikes allows at-risk communities to reduce the impacts of crises and shorten the time it takes towards recovery. Start Network aims to equip communities with resources that can be used to better monitor when and where disasters may happen so they can prepare accordingly.

Start Ready National Reserve in Bangladesh

National reserve funds were used for the first time in Bangladesh in preparation for cyclone season. Member agencies took readiness actions that would complement their existing disaster risk reduction initiatives. People from the community now have greater access to better-equipped cyclone shelters.

Start Ready National Reserve in Madagascar and Activation for Cyclone Freddy

In February 2023, Cyclone Freddy devastated coastal areas of Madagascar leading to the activation of Start Ready and funds were immediately released to members in the country. This enabled crucial household-level preparedness activities, safeguarding communities from cyclone impacts and enhancing their resilience.

Start Ready National Reserve in the Philippines and Activation for Typhoon Doksuri

Start Ready activated in the Philippines 55 hours before Typhoon Doksuri made landfall in July 2023. Members and local partners were quick to implement their pre-approved contingency plans to help prepare communities for the impending crisis.

UN-OCHA Visit to READY Pakistan office to discuss potential joint initiative on scaling up Anticipatory Actions. © Wisal Khan, READY Pakistan

SHIFTING OUR RELATIONSHIPS (2021-2023)

DONORS AND DONOR ENGAGEMENT

Donors around the world support and collaborate with Start Network, sharing our goal of transforming the humanitarian system. We keep our donors up to date with our initiatives and programmes through regular updates covering programme progress, the Start Fund Accountability and Assurance Framework, and how we’ve been working on increasing funding for our local and national members.