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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
The future of Humanitarian Surge
In 2015 the Start Network launched a three-year Transforming Surge Capacity (TSC) project financed with UK aid from the UK government as part of the Department for International Development’s (DFID) Disasters and Emergencies Prepa... Read more...
04 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
Start Network's vision for the future - summary
To prepare for the change needed in the future, the Start Network’s 42 members came together over the last six months, to co-create a vision based on our 8-year experience. This is a summary of this vision. Read more...
14 November 2017
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
This handbook details the procedures which govern the use and allocation of the Start Fund Read more...
10 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