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A summary report of Oxfam's winterisation response in Serbia assisting migrants and refugees in need, as part of the Start Network's Migration Emergency Response Fund (MERF).

This report presents the results of the second tracking mechanism on surge practices for slow-onset crises as part of the Start Network Transforming Surge Capacity Project.

Women are among those most affected by disasters but in many countries are under-represented in humanitarian leadership positions. On International Women's Day 2017 we celebrate women as change makers, those women working in humanitarian aid who are…

Communications are vital to Start Network and to Start Fund: they help to raise our profile, and so improve our prospects of future funding and increase the impact of our advocacy.

International aid organization and Start Network member CARE International has published a new report highlighting ten humanitarian crises that have received the least media attention in 2016.

Humanitarian capacity building throughout the employee life cycle.

On 9 - 11 November 2015, heavy rains led to severe flooding and landslides in Tamil Nadu, southern India, destroying roughly 25,000 homes, damaging toughly 53,000 homes, killing at least 92 people and thousands of cattle, destroying around 50,000…

On 26 June, 2015, military clashes between the Colombian government and rebel forces displaced 434 of the 600 Embera Eyabida indigenous people living in Urrao, the capital of Urrao Minicipality, located in Antioquia department, Colombia.

SOURCE: CAFOD This paper provides an overview of CAFOD's Humanitarian Capacity Development (HCD) evaluation. 

SOURCE:IFRCThis World Disasters Report makes the case for a different approach to humanitarian action, one that strives to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable and at-risk communities.