Communities in Senegal will receive around £330,000 GBP ($400,500 USD) from Start Network and its local partners in anticipation of the drought season in 2023. Senegal’s 17 million population relies heavily on seasonal crops.
Over the last decade, the humanitarian sector has been heavily impacted by more frequent and severe climate-related crises. We need a more proactive, faster and locally led humanitarian system where communities are supported to analyse risks, create plans and have access to pre-arranged financing to prevent loss of life and livelihoods.
Start Network is pleased to welcome Malcolm Spence as its new independent trustee.
Annual Report and Accounts for 2020
Receiving feedback and responding to complaints is an important part of improving Start Network’s accountability. Ensuring our stakeholders can hold us to account will improve the quality of our work in all areas.
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As the world contends with the destruction that Pakistan’s monsoon floods have left in their wake, as well as the cascading impact of an emerging health crisis, some truths regarding the role of local organisations within the sector begin to become more visible.
Start Network is a network of aid agencies across the world, working together to revolutionise the global humanitarian system.
Predicting a disaster and taking action to save lives before it happens is not easy. FOREWARN aims to improve Start Network members’ ability to effectively use quality risk information in anticipation of forecastable hazards and provides technical support to both Start Fund and Start Ready financing mechanisms. This is the purpose of FOREWARN in Madagascar, which aims to provide humanitarian actors and decision-makers with tools to facilitate decision-making processes at both strategic and operational levels.
The new course called Risk Analytics in Start Ready DRF is also hosted via Kaya Connect and is offered free of charge covering the 2nd pillar of our Disaster Risk Financing-DRF approach.
