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Start Network Annual Report 2018
The Start Network is revolutionising the way that humanitarian aid is being disbursed by fostering localisation, new financing and collective innovation. Read more...
24 July 2019
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
Migration Emergency Response Fund Research Piece - Management response
A management response to the Migration Emergency Response Fund (MERF) Research Piece Read more...
06 August 2020
Migration Emergency Response Fund Research Piece
This research piece attempts to navigate the discussion and explore Start Network members’, donors’ and staff perceptions and experiences of the Start Network’s dedicated Migration Emergency Response Fund (MERF), with a view to ma... Read more...
06 August 2020
Le financement du MERF a été accordé sous la forme d'une subvention pour la Collaborative Information Collection and Analysis (CICA) afin d'évaluer les besoins sur la route émergente entre Sévaré et Tombouctou. L'évaluation a été ... Read more...
31 July 2020
Evaluation of migration flows and protection needs and risks on the Sevare-Timbuktu route in Mali
Funding from the Migration Emergency Response Fund (MERF) was awarded in the form of a Collaborative Information Collection and Analysis (CICA) grant in order to assess the needs on the emerging route between Sévaré and Timbuktu.&... Read more...
31 July 2020
Labs and Beyond: Opportunities to Transform Innovation Support
Reimagining Systems of Support for Aid Sector Innovators To date, much of the work on innovation lab design has focused on serving individual innovators who develop well-bounded products and services. Other more complex forms o... Read more...
28 July 2020
Accountability, Feedback & Complaints Mechanisms in Humanitarian Responses to Migration
This guidance, developed by humanitarian consultant Clea Kahn, aims to give humanitarian actors a guidance for developing their accountability mechanisms in the context of mixed migration, with a focus on complaints and feedback m... Read more...
27 July 2020
Monthly Risk Briefing: July 2020
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...
14 July 2020
Start Fund COVID-19 Update – 2nd edition
This document shares updates from Start Fund COVID-19 Projects being implemented by members from all across the Start Network. This second edition includes short case studies from COVID-19 response projects in Bosnia and Herzegovi... Read more...
02 July 2020