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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
Our third year was one of exciting progress and significant learning, with 74 alerts – nearly as many as our first two years combined – funding 94 projects in 29 countries, reaching nearly 2 million people affected by crisis. F... Read more...
25 May 2017
Forecasting hazards, averting disasters - Implementing forecast-based early action at scale
Donors and humanitarian agencies are thinking carefully about how to use forecasts to provide earlier support to at-risk communities before a disaster occurs. While this interest stems from a desire to reduce the growing humanitar... Read more...
29 March 2018
Start Fund: Learning from Slow-Onset Crises
The Start Fund is a multi-donor pooled rapid-response fund that initiates disbursement of humanitarian finance within 72 hours. It is collectively owned and managed by the Start Network members, a group of 42 national and internat... Read more...
15 March 2018
Protection Mainstreaming Training Package - Bengali
The Protection in Practice project, part of the Disasters Emergencies Preparedness Programme, aims to build the capacity of national staff to deliver activities which ensure the protection of civilians during times of crisis,... Read more...
12 March 2018
Protection Mainstreaming Training Package - Urdu
The Protection in Practice project, part of the Disasters Emergencies Preparedness Programme, aims to build the capacity of national staff to deliver activities which ensure the protection of civilians during times of crisis,... Read more...
12 March 2018
Protection Mainstreaming Training Package - English
The Protection in Practice project, part of the Disasters Emergencies Preparedness Programme, aims to build the capacity of national staff to deliver activities which ensure the protection of civilians during times of crisis,... Read more...
12 March 2018
Protection Mainstreaming Training Package - Burmese
The Protection in Practice project, part of the Disasters Emergencies Preparedness Programme, aims to build the capacity of national staff to deliver activities which ensure the protection of civilians during times of crisis,... Read more...
12 March 2018
Migration Emergency Response Fund Annual Report 2017
Over the past year, the Start Network has tested the flexibility of the Start Fund mechanism applied to one specific and highly volatile crisis context. The Mediterranean migration crisis has provided a testing platform for NGOs t... Read more...
28 February 2018
MERF Project Summary - Alert 10 Serbia (Basic needs and protection)
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 th... Read more...
27 February 2018