Save the Children
Save the Children is a leading children's charity working in 120 countries. It provides education, healthcare and disaster relief and protects the rights of children.
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We're tackling what we believe are the biggest systemic problems that the sector faces.
Our initiatives aim to transform humanitarian action through innovation, fast funding, early action, and localisation.
We are committed to transparency, accountability, evidence-led decision-making and using learning to continuously evolve.
News and blog articles from across the Start Network.
Save the Children is a leading children's charity working in 120 countries. It provides education, healthcare and disaster relief and protects the rights of children.
Blog Post
The African Risk Capacity Replica
What are the significant challenges that humanitarian organisations face today when responding to disasters?
16Oct18
Blog Post
Global Fund 250th crisis alert: Ebola outbreak in the DRC
A fresh outbreak of Ebola in the North Kivu province of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has become the focus of the 250th alert by the Start Fund.
10Aug18
Blog Post
Are Your Deployees Prepared?
When humanitarian disasters happen, aid needs to be rapidly brought to the centre of the crisis zone and concentrated there until the situation has stabilised. Surge capacity measures how quickly and effectively this surge of temporary aid can be brought to a disaster zone, and how smoothly it can be scaled down again afterwards.
29Mar18
Blog Post
Developing women leaders in the humanitarian sector
On International Women’s Day, Wanjiru Wainaina tells about her journey from wondering what she was going to do with her life, to working and building skills as a humanitarian in Kenya and now studying at Oxford Brookes University.
07Mar18
Blog Post
Ngày Qu Ốc tế Phụ nữ - International Women’s Day
On International Women’s Day, Start Network's Laura Louise Fairley pays tribute to the unsung warriors of this world, telling the stories of women in the highlands and the lowlands of Vietnam caring for their families in times of crisis.
07Mar18
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MERF Project Summary - Alert 13 Serbia (Food, WaSH, Protection and PSS needs)
The Migration Emergency Response Fund (MERF), funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), was established in January 2017 in partnership with the 15 member representatives of the Start Network present in the region. The MERF allows member organisations to react to a significant change of needs, or provide assistance to previously unidentified vulnerable groups. Its aim is to address the unpredictable nature of the mixed migration crisis across the Mediterranean that exacerbated an already difficult operating context for aid workers and made it difficult to plan for a response.
27Feb18
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