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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
Towards regionalisation of humanitarian action
As part of the Transforming Surge Capacity project, seven international humanitarian NGOs have come together to test out collaborative app roaches to surge response in the Asia region. This case study highlights how Islamic R... Read more...
04 August 2017
The Start Fund, Start Network and Localisation
Localisation is a foundational and non-negotiable principle within the Start Network. This report presents a ‘baseline assessment’ of where the Start Fund and three DEPP projects currently sits with the‘localisation agen... Read more...
03 August 2017
Start Evolves Webinar: Value of Start at the national level
Through Start Evolves, the Start Network has put forward a vision for the future which we think is needed to tackle the humanitarian challenges of the 21st century. We believe the humanitarian sector needs to move to a model that ... Read more...
27 July 2017
Start Evolves Webinar: Dan McClure on the participation revolution
The Start Network’s vision is a humanitarian system in which funding will be dependable and predictable, responses are based on humanitarian need and context-appropriate. For this to become reality, the Start Network needs to evol... Read more...
20 July 2017