The current international humanitarian system, dominated by large international organisations, is being stretched to its limit. Dealing with growing frequency, unpredictability and complexity of emergencies, it appears increasingly unfit to deal with…
The Save the Children Humanitarian Capacity Building (HCB) team has produced an annual overview providing evidence from a range of learning programmes.
This paper has been written to inform discussion between donors, the United Nations and NGOs about an emerging tension between two important goals: building local capacity and managing programmatic risk.
The Disasters and Emergencies Preparedness Programme (DEPP) leverages collaborative advantage, maximising the potential of working together to achieve results at scale.
Since launching in April 2014, the Start Fund has been alerted 71 times and has funded 128 projects to respond to 52 emergencies globally.
Humanitarian Futures Programme Discussion Paper for the Start Network
Since the start of the conflict in neighbouring South Sudan on 15 December 2013, more than 218,700 South Sudanese have crossed into Ethiopia’s Gambella region, fleeing from violence and food insecurity.
This report provides evidence of our assertion that the Start Fund, collectively owned and operated by NGOs/INGOs, can and will enable the international humanitarian system to rise to the challenges of 21st century humanitarian crises
Talent Development is an innovative humanitarian capacity-building project that aims to develop decentralized approaches to capacity-building and to improve the quality and speed of humanitarian response in countries at risk of natural disaster or…
Extreme weather events were almost twice as common over the past ten years as they were during the 1980s. The people on the frontlines of the climate crisis are those who are least responsible for causing it: the world’s poorest and most vulnerable…
