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10 Lessons from the first three years of Crisis Anticipation
In 2016 the Start Network launched Crisis Anticipation within the Start Fund. This short brief documents the 10 key lessons learned and recommendation from the first 3 years of Crisis Anticipation at the Start Network. Read more...
03 December 2020
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 related to the Start Fund and access a... Read more...
23 October 2020
LEARN about Start Financing Facility
Start Network’s first virtual Assembly meeting took take place from Monday 12 to Thursday 15 October 2020, alongside our 10-year anniversary celebrations. At the Assembly, we updated members on the development progress of Start Fi... Read more...
20 October 2020
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