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A summary of small to medium scale crises that the Start Fund has been alerted to, between 16 September and 5 October 2015.

The Start Network has committed to prototype new financial models to ensure that the right solutions are funded at the right time to enable the best possible solutions to humanitarian crises.

Catherine Dennis, Protection in Practice Project Manager at Oxfam tells us what she has learned, one year on from the start of the Disasters Emergency Preparedness Programme (DEPP).

The Start Fund has allocated £161,802 to provide a rapid humanitarian response to an influx of returnees from Cameroon to Nigeria.

On the 21st of June 2015, a rebel group sabotaged an oil pipeline in the rural area of Tumaco (Pacific coast of Colombia) causing the “the worst environmental and social damage in the last ten years in Colombia”.

Tanuja Pandit shares an update from the engine room of the Start Network.

Start for Change 2015: building new humanitarian solutions together is the Start Network's annual gathering to celebrate success and debate the strategy for the year ahead.

The Start Network is recruiting for two new roles to be based with the Start Team at Save the Children's office in London.

This report outlines the design of a new funding mechanism that will ensure more timely humanitarian response to emerging drought-induced food and livelihood crises. The design of this mechanism was carried out through joint partnership between the Start Network and GlobalAgRisk, with support from the Humanitarian Innovation Fund.