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The benefits of early action are mostly uncontested among humanitarian actors. Nevertheless, humanitarian actors still find it challenging to act early for a variety of reasons.

The Start Network is stimulating a way of working that enables the international and local to coexist in a dynamic and faster response mechanism.

This report, written for Donors, Members and stakeholders, provides evidence and analysis of the Start Fund performance over 2014.

Assessing the performance of Start funded projects and their influence on the evolution of crises.

The State of Surge Capacity in the Humanitarian Sector is the largest snapshot on surge for a number of years, and reveals how surge in the humanitarian sector has evolved in the past decade.

Start Network's Shveta Shah discusses building the portfolio of projects within the Disasters Emergencies Preparedness Programme (DEPP)

Starting in early 2015, Ethiopia began experiencing its worst drought in over 30 years, with Belg rains failing in Feb-April 2015, followed by a poor Kiremt rain season in July-Sept 2015 exacerbated by El Nino.

A case study about the first three years of the Start Network, formally the Consortium of British Humanitarian Agencies.

This is the second case study developed on behalf of the Start Network. The series is designed to capture the emerging story of the Consortium and draw out some useful lessons about collaboration. 

Ros Tennyson outlines a new case study which puts the day-to-day reality of the operational side of Start Network under a microscope.