New collaborative regional roster for humanitarian response launched in Bangkok
This week the first collaborative regional roster for humanitarian response was launched in Bangkok.
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Breaking through entrenched positions
… their own power struggles and bureaucracies at the cost of accountability to disaster affected populations. Is there …
Head of Assurance
… and NGOs as our vehicle for devolving power, resources and accountability. OUR SOLUTIONS DECENTRAISLING & LOCALLY-LED …
Network Engagement Officer
The Network Engagement Officer works to help realise the emergence of locally-led humanitarian hubs around the world, connected by Start Network.
Head of Assurance
The key purpose of the role is to oversee and manage the assurance function, focusing on provision of internal risk management and due diligence for members, while ensuring compliance to regulations, including legal and donor requirements.
New challenges to the humanitarian project: a discussion starter
… time, energy and resources are invested in “upward” accountability to donors than in improving “downward” accountability to communities and other national stakeholders …
Start Network at HNPW 2022
Start Network will be lending its voice at the Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks (HNPW) in May 2022 to push forward our commitment towards locally led and anticipatory action.
How local leaders are challenging the status quo — and Start Network
As part of our move toward becoming a locally led network of networks, we've incubated and supported five Start Network hubs. Bhavya Srinivasan, Interim Head of Network Development, shares what she's learned in the two years she's worked to support them.
Mulling over the MERF programme
Melina joined the Start Network in 2016. Before this she had been working with the International Rescue Committee in Mali as their grants manager, and this is where she had her first experience with the Start Network through two initiatives. The first was a Start Fund Alert (Alert 36) in response to internal displacement and the second was Start Response Ebola Preparedness Programme. Both these introduced Melina to very different ways of working with rapid and collaborative decision-making processes and implementation in just 45 days. Soon after, she joined the Start Network as a Start Fund Programme Officer establishing the Start Fund Regional Advisor roles as well as leading on a growing number of alerts, before moving to the Migration Emergency Response Fund (MERF) in 2018 first as the Regional Coordinator based out of Tunis and then as the Programme Manager. She joined MERF as it started its second phase and here reflects on some of the learnings along the way.
Interview with Manu Gupta and Varghese Antony
In June four humanitarian organisations from India joined the Start Network, and one of these is SEEDS. We spoke with Manu Gupta and Varghese Antony about their previous interactions with the Start Network and their motivations for joining.