This situational analysis explores where the Start Network’s Hubs model sits within a broader landscape of initiatives that are working in some of the Hub contexts (or across them) to bring about a more localised system.
This report explores the existing evidence base and rationale for localisation to better understand how arguments for effectiveness, efficiency and equity in the localisation discourse are understood, evidenced and communicated.
The localisation of humanitarian action has been the subject of humanitarian policy and practice discussions for more than a decade. In recent years, many governments and donors have reaffirmed their commitments to localisation, including FCDO, USAID and ECHO who have either published or are currently developing guidelines and strategies to realise these commitments.
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.
