Alice Hawkes and Kerry Ann Akers, from the Protection in Practice project ask whether international organisations are truly ready to relinquish control and enable decision making to take place as close to the front line as possible.
Start Network's Shveta Shah discusses building the portfolio of projects within the Disasters Emergencies Preparedness Programme (DEPP)
Insights from a learning seminar in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. By Jean-Louis Lambeau (Learning Advisor - DRC, Kenya and Mozambique)
This week Christina Haberl attended the annual Bond Conference and reflects on her sense of looming disillusion and cautious optimism.
Providing a unique opportunity to enhance coordination and collaboration amongst different DEPP projects at country level.
Becky Murphy from Christian Aid reports from the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction's Science and Technology Conference.
On 29 October people from across the Start Network and others involved in the Disasters and Emergency Preparedness Programme (DEPP) met to discuss the new monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) project for the DEPP portfolio.
Catherine Dennis, Protection in Practice Project Manager at Oxfam tells us what she has learned, one year on from the start of the Disasters Emergency Preparedness Programme (DEPP).
Where does power lie in the humanitarian system? What barriers need to be overcome for local organisations to play a leading role in decision-making and responding to crises?
