This session introduced Start Ready, a new financial service for the humanitarian sector that will use climate science, risk protection mechanisms, and financial best practice to protect more people against predictable disasters worldwide. Start Ready will sit alongside the Start Fund in Start Network's financing facility.
As the network decentralises, and more functions and decisions devolve to the hubs, the role of the Start Network secretariat will also need to change to support a new way of working. The "network of networks" will require a new global infrastructure which enables many members across many hubs to work together, share and learn from each other; and which provides aggregated solutions that reduce duplication across the network. This session was an opportunity to hear about the work and thinking that has been done to date around this new service-provider model and what it might look like.
Recently the Start Network partnered with Complexity University and Global Fund for Community Foundations offering organisations a unique opportunity to take part in a radical experimental intiative. Global teams engaged in an intensive course looking at how we can work together to transform the humanitarian aid sector from the ground up. In this session, we presented the outcomes from the Crisis Response Resilience Lab and showcased some of the teams experiments and lessons from the innovation course.
This session was an opportunity to re-engage with the proposed changes to Start Network's governance and membership structures, in line with our shift towards a distributed model of power and decision making. In particular, this session aimed to address the issues and questions raised by members over the past few months, and present a roadmap for addressing the next set of challenges in the network's development journey.
This session provided an overview of Start Fund Bangladesh and Start Fund Nepal, and provided a platform for Start Network member and partner organisations to share what they have learned through the development and delivery of local Start Funds.
This session looked at the global Start Fund's lessons learnt, particularly focusing on locally-led decision making and enabling humanitarian action (by unlocking access to funding). It included findings from the localisation pilot and added value of local organisations leading humanitarian action
This learning brief looks at the key lessons from the inaugural round of Start Network’s Working Differently Challenge (WDC). It particularly explores lessons on how to support the collaboration of organisations to develop their emerging innovation ideas through different ways of working. The evidence draws from perception surveys gathered from the teams that took part in the challenge—CADENA, Islamic Relief, A Single Drop for Safer Water, Tearfund—and from learning captured through ongoing coaching and reflections.
En 2020, Start Network a mené une enquête auprès de 98 organisations locales et nationales (75 hommes et 23 femmes de 32 pays) qui avaient déjà établi un partenariat avec Start Network ou un membre de Start Network. L’objectif de l’enquête était de mieux comprendre les modes de fonctionnement des partenariats. L’enquête visait à identifier les défis et les opportunités de partenariats collaboratifs et égalitaires entre Start Network et les membres de Start Network avec des partenaires locaux. Quatre-vingt-quatorze pour cent des partenaires locaux ont estimé que l’interaction était « très positive » ou « positive », cependant, la majorité (86 %) a également estimé que Start Network ou les membres de Start Network devraient en faire plus pour construire une relation plus forte. Lire le résumé en anglais, bangla, indonésien, espagnol et urdu.
In 2020, Start Network conducted a survey of 98 local and national organisations (75 men and 23 women from 32 countries) that had previously partnered with Start Network or a Start Network member. The objective of the survey was to better understand the ways in which the partnerships were working. The survey aimed to identify the challenges and opportunities for collaborative and equal partnerships between Start Network and Start Network members with local partners. This research and its recommendations will be beneficial to people and organisations working with or developing partnerships with local organisations in the humanitarian sector. It also highlights specific areas of learning for Start Network to work on internally. Ninety-four percent of local partners felt the interaction was either ‘very positive’ or ‘positive’, however, the majority (86%) also felt there was more Start Network or Start Network members should be doing to build a stronger relationship. Read the Executive Summary in Bangla, French, Indonesian, Spanish, and Urdu
موجز التعلم ربــع السنوي للأدلة والتعلم The brief is provided in Arabic, Bangla, English, French and Spanish.
