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This handbook details the procedures which govern the use and allocation of the Start Fund Read more...
01 June 2020
COVID19 Learning from four disease outbreak responses
At Start Network we always aim to learn from experience. So, we have endeavoured to analyse the data and information from past Start Fund responses in order to present a set of lessons for COVID-19 projects. Read more...
16 April 2020
A management response to: An External Evaluation of the Start Fund Preparedness to Scale-Up 2018/9
The Start Fund has an established practice of providing management response to its external, independent evaluations. Developed through a participatory process, the management response helps to ensure that the evaluations&nbs... Read more...
25 March 2020
EXTERNAL EVALUATION OF THE START FUND PREPAREDNESS TO SCALE-UP
This external evaluation was commissioned to ‘assess the preparedness of Start Fund to scale-up its operations and suggest future growth rate scenarios’. The overarching purpose of the evaluation is stated as two-fold: As... Read more...
25 March 2020
Now moving into its fifth year of operation, the Start Fund is the fastest collectively-owned funding mechanism in the world. It is a leading enabler of rapid, needs-driven humanitarian response for overlooked crises. Filling a cr... Read more...
23 May 2018
External Evaluation of the Start Fund: Progress, Performance & Future Plans
The Start Fund provides rapid financing to underfunded small to medium scale crises, spikes in chronic humanitarian crises, and to act in anticipation of impending crises, filling a critical gap in humanitarian financing. Read more...
29 December 2017
Start Fund Crisis Anticipation Window Annual Report 2017
The Start Fund opened its Crisis Anticipation Window in November 2016. In this report we set out the changes we have made so far, identify what we’ve learned during its first year and explain the plan to normalise and embed antici... Read more...
07 December 2017
Start Fund: Learning from Cash Programming
This review is one in a series of learning products developed by the Start Fund Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning team with the intention of providing actionable recommendations to improve decision making at the ... Read more...
06 December 2017
Start Fund: Learning from Accountability to Crisis-Affected Communities
The study uses the Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS) as a lens to review the extent to which Start funded projects are accountable to disaster-affected populations, and the influence this may have on t... Read more...
04 December 2017
Pre-alert guidance note - cyclones, hurricanes, typhoons
This document is designed to make it easier for agencies to raise Start Fund anticipatory alerts for cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons, or to submit Start Fund project proposals when an alert has been activated. Read more...
29 September 2017