As Sierra Leone celebrates 42 days free of Ebola, we take a look at the success of the rapid response team training on Ebola, part of International Medical Corps's Start project in Guinea Bissau.
Tens of thousands of people who have made the dangerous journey to the Western Balkans will receive immediate, lifesaving humanitarian assistance with new funding from the UK Department for International Development.
On 29 October people from across the Start Network and others involved in the Disasters and Emergency Preparedness Programme (DEPP) met to discuss the new monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) project for the DEPP portfolio.
Last week, 26-30 October, 21 humanitarians were trained in Nairobi as part of the Leadership for Humanitarians programme, delivered by Relief International as part of the Talent Development project.
The Start Fund provides aggregation, a single point of entry for governments to access a large population of organisations, and the ownership and power is diverse across the Start Network
half of all human suffering in disasters is in small scale, low profile crises, which are not addressed by the aid system.
Hitendra Solanki, Mindfulness & Wellbeing Adviser for ACF-UK and The Start Network on the importance of being aware of mental health issues in humanitarian response.
The Start Network is seeking a Start Fund Officer to ensure our grant processes and information management systems are being run as efficiently as possible.
The Start Network is seeking two new colleagues to help grow our monitoring, evaluation and learning.
With the World Humanitarian Summit set to happen in Istanbul in May 2016, members of the Act Alliance are lobbying for the voices of marginalised, vulnerable and disaster-affected communities to be heard on the global stage.
