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How we can better incorporate gender principles in short-term humanitarian programming.

This grant sought to enable the creation of new methodologies to measure the success and impact of humanitarian interventions. The Community-Led Approaches to Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Research Grant was created in March 2022, with support from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and the IKEA Foundation. This grant formed part of the Start Network’s push for a locally led humanitarian system and to meet the participation revolution commitment in the Grand Bargain, which seeks to promote the link between effective participation and the quality and effectiveness of humanitarian response.

Kat Reichel reflects on the lessons and insights that came out of the Start Network's Assembly meeting in November, which brought together our members and colleagues to endorse the network's strategic direction.

Here we look at one of the proposals from the Start Evolves task teams, the Due Diligence team proposes a global due diligence database to enable greater diversity in the humanitarian system.

The Start Network’s vision is to become a decentralised network of hubs at the regional and national level. To discuss the value of hubs with members, Start Network’s Neil Townsend and Bhavya Srinivasan hosted consultation meetings in Amman and Nairobi as part of Start Evolves.

Start Network's Luke Caley sets out a vision for early action in humanitarian crises, and the platform that could provide the capability needed to take it to scale.

How can the humanitarian sector in Pakistan build more effective systems for humanitarian action? And how do we need to work together to achieve it? These were the questions we attempted to answer during Start Network’s ‘The Future of Humanitarian Action in Pakistan’ conference, held in July in Islamabad, with the support of ACTED and the Humanitarian Leadership Academy.

We are inviting organisations around the world to join us in co-designing the structure needed to realise our vision of a more effective humanitarian system. Read more and tell us what you think.

Start Network’s Sarah Barr reports on the launch of Action Against Hunger’s new report The future of aid: INGOs in 2030, produced by the Inter-Agency Regional Analysts Network (IARAN).

Kat Reichel, Senior Manager for Network Design and Engagement, talks about how the Start Network is making its vision a reality through complex systems thinking.