Change means action: Start Network's new 3-year strategy for 2024-2026 has just launched. It crystallises our value offer as a systems change organisation and sets out how we will address the challenges in the humanitarian sector.
This blog is written from the perspective of someone working in an international humanitarian network, speaking to others in international humanitarian institutions.
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.
A locally led humanitarian system is only possible through innovating, experimenting and testing different ways of working.
Reflecting on humanitarian trends over the past decade, one thing is clear: localisation and/or locally led action are ways of working that are here to stay.
A case study of HANDS, BSDSB and Muslim Aid's consortium project in response to flooding in Pakistan.
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.
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. This document contains the case studies gathered during the grant.
This is an independent, external evaluation of the Start Fund’s ‘localisation pilot’ conducted in late 2022. The purpose of the evaluation is to assess the extent to which the global Start Fund is ready in terms of current and planned processes, practices and capacity, to develop into a more locally-led humanitarian model while maintaining its mandate to respond rapidly to the gaps and unmet needs of people in, or at-risk of crisis.
