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The Start Fund monthly risk briefing outlines new, emerging or deteriorating humanitarian risks relevant to the Start Fund collated by the Start Network Crisis Anticipation and Risk Financing team. The brief this month features risks linked with El Niño including flooding in Peru, wildfires in northern South America and drought in the Philippines, alongside disease outbreak risk in DR Congo and Congo, and complex humanitarian situation at the Colombia-Ecuador border.

FOREWARN Bangladesh, in association with Open Mapping Hub - Asia Pacific, is running the first-ever disaster hackathon in Bangladesh. It has announced its top 8 teams from across public, private, and international universities.

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.

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 benefit through improved access to information, financial assistance, and disaster response capacity-strengthening tools when local governments employ an inclusive anticipation approach in managing volcanic risks.

National FOREWARN group launches in Bangaldesh and the Philippines enabling them to use local expertise, forecasts and resources to act before a predictable crisis hits within country.

In early 2019, The Start Network undertook a member survey which probed for examples of how the Start Network is influencing their operations.