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The Start Fund monthly Risk Bulletin 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. It is collated by the Start Network Anticipation and Risk Financing team using information from academia and research institutes, government departments, ACAPS, global risk indexes, risk information provided by Start Members and their partners, and the media. Key risks are shared and collated each month with FOREWARN input. Start Network members interested in raising an anticipatory alert for any of the risks highlighted in the bulletin can email startfund@startprogrammes.org for further guidance.

Blog by Pranav Dahal on the first ever Disaster Hackathon organised by FOREWARN Nepal.

The January 2025 risk bulletin highlights several new or emerging situations including in Zambia, Angola, Moldova, Yemen and Guatemala - ranging from disease outbreak to the risks of displacement.

The October 2024 Start Fund Risk Bulletin highlights new and emerging crises, including abnormal heat affecting Libya, Algeria and Mali, a forecast spike in the dengue outbreak affecting countries across Central and South America, an update on La Niña risk as ahead of the forecast entering of conditions…

The Start Fund 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. It is collated by the Start Network Anticipation and Risk Financing team using information from academia and research institutes, government departments, ACAPS, global risk indexes, risk information provided by Start Members and their partners, and the media. Key risks are shared and collated each month with FOREWARN input.

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.