Resource centre
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
Localisation of Aid: Are INGOs Walking The Talk?
A new publication from the Shifting the Power project looks at whether and how INGOs following their own rhetoric of localising humanitarian aid. Read more...
30 October 2017
Cash delivery mechanism assessment
As part of Start's Migration Emergency Response Fund, Network members Mercy Corps, ACTED and IRC have conducted an assessment of how different cash delivery mechanisms serve migrant and refugee populations in Libya. Read more...
11 October 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
Pre-alert guidance note - disease outbreaks
This document is designed to make it easier for agencies to raise Start Fund anticipatory alerts for disease outbreaks, or to submit Start Fund project proposals when an alert has been activated. Read more...
29 September 2017
Better together: How joint capacity building can improve NGO preparedness for emergencies
The Asia Regional Platform of the Transforming Surge Capacity project has gathered 7 international NGOs to create the regional shared roster Go Team Asia, which provides surge support to emergencies across the region. Roster membe... Read more...
22 September 2017
The Future of Humanitarian Action in Pakistan
More than 130 participants from national and international civil society organisations, donors, UN agencies and government officials attended the conference to explore what an ideal future for humanitarian action in Pakistan might... Read more...
19 September 2017
Protection in Practice Learning Snapshot
Learning by doing is the best way to learn, so the Protection in Practice project builds local partner capacity by training, mentoring and co-implementing projects with them simultaneously. This means that vulnerable people are he... Read more...
12 September 2017
Going the extra mile: Bangladesh Localisation Review
In order to establish a baseline on the state of localisation in the Start Fund and humanitarian sector in Bangladesh more generally, the Start Fund Bangladesh commissioned this external review. Read more...
19 August 2017