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Start Network has laid a solid foundation in organisational strengthening through its microfunding approach. However, to further enhance its impact, Start Network should integrate lessons from past capacity strengthening initiatives and focus on providing longer-term, contextualised support. By doing so, Start Network can effectively address compliance requirements whilst simultaneously fostering local capacity building, thereby empowering L/NNGOs and supporting the development of a resilient, locally led humanitarian system.

This report presents an overview of the current utilisation of Local, Indigenous, and Traditional Knowledge (LITK) within Start Network whilst exploring potential avenues for its enhanced capture and utilisation.

Every humanitarian organisation is committed to learning, to improving our individual and collective performance to better serve people affected by crises. And as ALNAP’s State of the Humanitarian System report shows, the sector has achieved a slow incremental improvement in the performance of the humanitarian system over time.

In humanitarian and disaster response efforts, LGBTQIA+ individuals are among the most vulnerable yet least visible

In 2022, an evaluation of the Start Fund explored ways the flagship programme could become more locally led.

In 2022, an evaluation of the Start Fund explored ways the flagship programme could become more locally led. Two recommendations were made to Start Network, which required a deeper understanding of the role that members have as intermediaries and in complementary consortiums.

The Sharing Knowledge and Ideas under Local Leadership (SKILL) Grant was developed in 2021 so that Start Network’s local members could lead collaborative research projects and learn through partnerships. From January 2022, with grants of up to £15,000 GBP, eight local or national NGO organisations worked with a variety of partners to research humanitarian issues that they chose. Through this report, we document their experiences, impact and learning.

A podcast series making the case for locally led humanitarian action.

Listening and acting on community feedback is one way to enable the agency of communities and provide assistance that is both effective and dignified.

As Western donors and international non-governmental organisations (INGOs), we most often have disproportionate power in relation to local and national organisations.