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Start Network Strategy 2021 to 2023
The events of the past 18 months have thrown down an important gauntlet for Start Network to deepen our commitment to local humanitarian action and the power shifts that this requires, to demonstrate that acting collectively, earl... Read more...
15 August 2021
2020 was a difficult year for communities around the world. The year reinforced the need for local, highly contextual solutions to humanitarian problems, and heightened the need for proactivity, flexibility and speed when managing... Read more...
05 August 2021
Start Network's vision for the future of humanitarian action
To prepare for the change needed in the future, the Start Network’s 42 members came together over the last six months, to co-create a vision for the network, based on experience gained over our first eight years. This proposal was... Read more...
13 December 2017
MONTHLY RISK BULLETIN ISSUED: SEPTEMBER 2021
The monthly risk briefing 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 als... Read more...
16 September 2021
ACCOUNTABILITY TO AT RISK COMMUNITIES IN DISASTER RISK FINANCING (DRF) SYSTEMS: GUIDANCE NOTE
Disaster risk financing is an innovative approach for timely and predictable crisis management. With decisions about how a crisis will be monitored, funded and acted on taken in advance, there are new opportunities and challenges ... Read more...
13 September 2021
PRESS & MEDIA KIT: G7 SUMMIT 2021
Start Network is a global network of more than 50 Non-Governmental Organisations, working across six continents. The aim of the network is to tackle what it sees are the biggest systemic problems in the humanitarian action sector ... Read more...
10 September 2021
LOCALLY-LED HUMANITARIAN ACTION ADVOCACY PACK
This document includes a summary of key locally-led humanitarian action asks developed by Start Network. This can be used by the Start Network team, Start Network members and partners. Messages will be updated regularly as new evi... Read more...
10 September 2021
Enabling Anticipatory Action at Scale Policy Brief for Donor Governments
The Anticipatory Action Task Force (AATF) brings together the key agencies implementing anticipatory action on the ground. The AATF draws on a wealth of experience from implementing anticipatory action initiatives in over 60 count... Read more...
10 September 2021
Anticipatory Action Task Force (AATF) ToR
Acting prior to a predictable hazard in order to safeguard lives and livelihoods, to reduce human suffering and losses and damages, is a faster, more efficient and more dignified response. Read more...
10 September 2021
ARC Replica - DEFEATING DROUGHT: Crisis Averted in Senegal
Although drought can be predicted months in advance, humanitarian assistance is often delayed – because it takes time to raise funds after the crisis has happened. When drought hit Senegal in 2020, this wasn’t the case – because o... Read more...
19 August 2021