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Working Differently Challenge Learning Brief
This learning brief looks at the key lessons from the inaugural round of Start Network’s Working Differently Challenge (WDC). It particularly explores lessons on how to support the collaboration of organisations to develop their e... Read more...
15 October 2021
LEARN about Collective Innovation
Start Network’s first virtual Assembly meeting took take place from Monday 12 to Thursday 15 October 2020, alongside our 10-year anniversary celebrations. Watch the recordings of the sessions on Collaborative Innovation and access... Read more...
29 October 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
The Disasters and Emergencies Preparedness Programme Innovation Labs Briefing Paper
The Disasters and Emergencies Preparedness Programme (DEPP) Innovation Labs is a two-year programme that aims to foster, and eventually scale up, innovations that address key problems faced by disaster-prone communities. Read more...
26 February 2019
Geoff Mulgan wants us to rethink how to use AI technology
Start Network has been looking into digital capacity, and blockchain solutions as part of its potential to solve structural problems within the humanitarian sector. Currently the system is overly centralised, funding is often slo... Read more...
10 August 2018
How to assess the impact of a Drought Risk Financing facility: A guide
This guide outlines some of the conceptual questions, and practical tools, that can be used to evaluate drought risk financing (DRF) initiatives. It offers a framework for thinking about the impact of drought risk financ... Read more...
14 November 2017
Drought Financing Facility summary
The purpose of this report is to give an overview of the way the Drought Financing Facility is designed, including two proposed pilots in Zimbabwe and Pakistan. Read more...
07 November 2017
Start Evolves Video: Emily Montier on the Family of Financing Facilities
The Start Network’s vision is a humanitarian system in which funding will be dependable and predictable, responses are based on humanitarian need and context-appropriate. For this to become reality, the Start Network needs to evol... Read more...
20 July 2017
Start Evolves Webinar: Dan McClure on feedback loops for complex systems
The Start Network’s vision is a humanitarian system in which funding will be dependable and predictable, responses are based on humanitarian need and context-appropriate. For this to become reality, the Start Network needs to evol... Read more...
07 July 2017