On International Women’s Day, Wanjiru Wainaina tells about her journey from wondering what she was going to do with her life, to working and building skills as a humanitarian in Kenya and now studying at Oxford Brookes University.
Graduates of the Humanitarian Trainee Scheme, a capacity-building programme funded through the Disasters and Emergencies Preparedness Programme, are supporting the Bangladesh Government’s response to the Rohingya refuges crisis.
As they set out by motor boat to reach remote communities hit by flash flooding, three trainee humanitarians had their first taste of the hazards involved in their new profession.
How can the humanitarian sector in Pakistan build more effective systems for humanitarian action? And how do we need to work together to achieve it? These were the questions we attempted to answer during Start Network’s ‘The Future of Humanitarian Action in Pakistan’ conference, held in July in Islamabad, with the support of ACTED and the Humanitarian Leadership Academy.
In this video, graduates of the East African Humanitarian Trainee Scheme explain what they learned and why the course is important.
We spoke to Guillaume Bahizire, a co-facilitator of the Context programme in DRC, which provides long-term learning and development through face-to-face group-based learning, coaching, individual project work and web-based learning.
This case study, produced on International Women's Day 2017, focuses on two women from Jordan, where women are discouraged from humanitarian work by cultural norms and expectations and are under-represented in humanitarian leadership positions.
Emily Montier and a group of ten NGOs meet in Pakistan to work on prototyping a new financing facility, designed to release funds for early action in emerging droughts.
Start Network members have begun working with Pakistan’s disaster authority to develop a new way of funding preventative action, aimed at helping vulnerable families threatened by drought.
Save the Children's Carol Hatchett shares messages from people involved in Talent Development, a project which brings organisations together to build local capacities.
