Resource centre
Pre-alert guidance note - flooding
This document is designed to make it easier for agencies to raise Start Fund anticipatory alerts for flooding, or to submit Start Fund project proposals when an alert has been activated. Read more...
05 May 2017
Pre-alert guidance note - drought
This document is designed to make it easier for agencies to raise Start Fund anticipatory alerts for drought, or to submit Start Fund project proposals when an alert has been activated. Read more...
05 May 2017
Pre-alert guidance note - conflict & displacement
This document is designed to make it easier for agencies to raise Start Fund anticipatory alerts for conflict and displacement, or to submit Start Fund project proposals when an alert has been activated. Read more...
05 May 2017
Pre-alert guidance note - heatwave
This document is designed to make it easier for agencies to raise Start Fund anticipatory alerts for a heatwave, or to submit Start Fund project proposals when an alert has been activated. Read more...
05 May 2017
Time to move on: national perspectives on transforming surge capacity
Commissioned as part of the Transforming Surge Capacity project and led by Cafod, this report analyses national NGO experiences of recruitment practices for surge by international NGOs in the Philippines. Read more...
25 April 2017
Migration Emergency Response Fund Report Summary: Serbia (Alert 1), Oxfam
A summary report of Oxfam's winterisation response in Serbia assisting migrants and refugees in need, as part of the Start Network's Migration Emergency Response Fund (MERF). Read more...
11 April 2017
Slow-Onset Crises: Review of Surge Practices
This report presents the results of the second tracking mechanism on surge practices for slow-onset crises as part of the Start Network Transforming Surge Capacity Project. Read more...
17 March 2017
International Women's Day 2017 case studies
Women are among those most affected by disasters but in many countries are under-represented in humanitarian leadership positions. On International Women's Day 2017 we celebrate women as change makers, those women working in human... Read more...
08 March 2017
Start Fund Communications Guidelines
Communications are vital to Start Network and to Start Fund: they help to raise our profile, and so improve our prospects of future funding and increase the impact of our advocacy. Read more...
23 February 2017
10 most under-reported humanitarian crises of 2016
International aid organization and Start Network member CARE International has published a new report highlighting ten humanitarian crises that have received the least media attention in 2016. Read more...
25 January 2017