Resource library

This handbook details the procedures which govern the use and allocation of the Start Fund.

We are excited to launch our organisational strategy for 2024-2026. This focus for the next three years reaffirms our commitment to humanitarian system change, modelled through practical action. We will focus on our key strengths and value offer as a…

The Start Fund monthly Risk Bulletin reports on new, emerging or deteriorating situations.

With a predicted landfall on the 16th of June 2023, Start Network member SEEDS raised an anticipation alert and commenced anticipatory action for Cyclone Biparjoy.

Following an anticipated five-fold upsurge in migration across the dangerous ‘Darien Gap’ crossing, from Colombia into Panama, CADENA was able to act early to support already stretched local government actions.

In 2022 in Nigeria, our members responded in Benue and Kogi, in anticipation of heavy rain and flooding.

This review evaluates the ARD Framework's integration into Start Network’s internal organisational processes and its overall impact since its inception. 

The FOREWARN newsletter takes a look back across the 2024 successes of the Start Network Forecast-based Warning, Analysis and Response Network (FOREWARN) across Bangladesh, Madagascar, Nepal, Pakistan and the Philippines. Featuring formation of a new…

The Start Fund monthly Risk Bulletin reports on new, emerging or deteriorating situations; therefore, ongoing events that are considered to be unchanged are not featured and risks that are beyond the scope and scale of the Start Fund are also not…

This study highlights the effectiveness of early interventions over reactive disaster relief.