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This study highlights the effectiveness of early interventions over reactive disaster relief.

From responding to displacement and migration in Colombia, to strengthening anticipatory action in the Philippines, our global network of dedicated changemakers is driving impact around the world.

In late 2022, the Famine Review Committee identified a risk of famine for several population groups in the Bay region of Somalia. The African Risk Capacity (ARC) Replica funds were consequently released in March 2023 when pre-agreed thresholds indicated rainfall deficits, drought, and worsening food insecurity. In total, 3.38 million USD was released from ARC Replica, and was supplemented with 891,800 USD from Start Ready.

An evaluation of Start Fund Nepal was held in March/April 2024 with a main objective to evaluate the performance of Start Fund Nepal as a funding mechanism from inception to present (Phase I and II).

Cyclone Freddy, the longest-lasting and most powerful cyclone ever recorded, hit Madagascar on 21-22nd of February 2023, and reemerged on the 5th of March, becoming the third deadliest in the Southern Hemisphere.

Start Network has launched its 2022 Annual Report, highlighting the fantastic achievements of our members, partners, donors and staff. The Report demonstrates the collective efforts our network has made to drive the sector towards a more collaborative humanitarian system.

The Community-Led Innovation Partnership (CLIP) program supports the creation, scaling, or adoption of locally-driven solutions identified and designed by people affected by crises and is actively pushing to realize humanitarian responses that meet existing humanitarian needs in a dignified, sustainable, efficient, and effective way.

This is an independent, external evaluation of the Start Fund’s ‘localisation pilot’ conducted in late 2022. The purpose of the evaluation is to assess the extent to which the global Start Fund is ready in terms of current and planned processes, practices and capacity, to develop into a more locally-led humanitarian model while maintaining its mandate to respond rapidly to the gaps and unmet needs of people in, or at-risk of crisis.

This report summarises the key achievements of National FOREWARN programmes in 2022.

Start Network’s global Forecast-based Warning Analysis and Response Network (FOREWARN) is a network of multidisciplinary stakeholders consisting of humanitarian professionals, academics, scientists and risk experts. Its aim is to provide support so that humanitarian professionals can take action before risks become disasters. In line with Start Network’s localisation agenda, four national FOREWARNs were created and piloted in Bangladesh, Madagascar and the Philippines from 2019, and in Pakistan from late 2021.