This Guidance Note provides 10 recommended rules of thumb for Start Network membership when using forecasting tools and models for Anticipatory Action in conflict settings and raising Start Fund anticipation alerts for an upcoming conflict.
This document gives clear guiding criteria, recommendations, and tips to support raising comprehensive and risk-informed anticipatory alerts notes to enable informed decision-making in the Start Fund’s anticipatory alert note process. The research underpinning the package includes surveys/interviews with Start Network members & other key stakeholders, as well as analysis of successes and failures in historic Start Fund alerts.
Tropical Cyclone (TC) Freddy made landfall on Tuesday evening, 21 February in the coastal town of Mananjary in Madagascar.
The monthly risk briefing reports on new, emerging or deteriorating situations; therefore, ongoing events that are considered to be unchanged are not featured and risks that are beyond the scope and scale of the Start Fund are also not featured.
We are excited to present the last instalment in the suite of e-courses for Start Ready and its Disaster Risk Financing system.
Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to recurring hazards and this situation is going to exacerbate due to the impacts of climate change.
Start Network is keen to open the opportunity for its members to support the management and implementation of the Anticipatory Action and Disaster Risk Financing Training Programme.
The Start Fund monthly risk brief reports on new, emerging, or deteriorating humanitarian emergencies which are classified as under the radar
Members of Start Network in Madagascar, together with FOREWARN Madagascar and Alliance Urgence members developed an Anticipatory Action system to anticipate tropical cyclones in the country through the Start Fund. Start Network worked with the National Meteorological Disaster Management Authority (BNGRC) to ensure access to high-quality cyclone forecasts and risk information.
Communities in Senegal will receive around £330,000 GBP ($400,500 USD) from Start Network and its local partners in anticipation of the drought season in 2023. Senegal’s 17 million population relies heavily on seasonal crops.
