Disaster risk financing and drought financing - all tools that we want to incorporate into the way humanitarian aid is managed. These will help us literally insure against damages to human life if a disaster was to strike.
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Learn more about mixed migration flows, and how the MERF has been responding to those needs.
Learn how many people have been reached with the Crisis Anticipation Window and how we have been able to act before and disaster struck.
Learn about the world's fastest pooled financing mechanism, Start Fund.
Since May 2017, there have been 8 activated alerts in Bangladesh, with disbursements totalling £2.1 million.
There are simply too many charities operating in international development. It is time we ourselves took action, argues the executive director of Mercy Corps.
With their homes destroyed, livestock buried, and crops washed way affected families were left stranded, struggling to survive and forced to depend on the help of their neighbouring communities.
How can you assign and protect copyright and intellectual property when co-designing humanitarian solutions with multiple actors, including disaster-affected communities and vulnerable groups?
In early October, heavy rainfall from two low pressure systems led to devastating flash floods and landslides in El Salvador. More than a 1000 people were forced to leave their homes as rivers burst their banks, mudslides in the country’s hilly…
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, Research Professor of Humanitarian Studies, University of Oslo, speaks to Start Network's innovation labs in Jordan, Philippines, Bangladesh and Kenya about ethics in humanitarian innovation.
The economic crisis and widespread social unrest that has gripped Venezuela in recent years has led to the displacement of millions of Venezuelans. Families, in search of economic and social security, have fled across borders into neighbouring…
In July 2016, Bangladesh was hit by one of the worst floods in recent history. What could have been done differently using the forecasts that were issued? Knowing what we know now, how can we better anticipate future floods? What can we learn from…