Being prepared for a potential emergency, and having a response structure already in place, paid dividends for community health volunteers when an outbreak of diarrhoea hit a sprawling Nairobi settlement.
The Start Fund's Sarah Klassen visits a DEPP project led by Christian Aid in Myanmar, which is helping Start meet its Grand Bargain commitment to invest in strengthening national actors' ability to proactively prepare for disasters through early warning and risk analysis systems.
One year after the World Humanitarian Summit, the pace of change needs to be faster says Sean Lowrie, director of Start Network
We commit to working with others to develop cross-sector initiatives to enable a wide range of actors to participate in programme design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and feedback mechanisms for adaptive programming.
We recognise locally-led, sustainable, social innovation is strengthening capacities already, and commit to promoting and facilitating such initiatives across the Network and our partners.
