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The eighth Start Fund response is now under way after NGO staff in Kathmandhu awarded £99,807 to two agencies. 

The current Ebola Virus Disease outbreak is the largest ever recorded.  The virus has now been confirmed in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Senegal.  

There are many reasons why the humanitarian NGO sector isn’t geared towards the promotion and development of innovation.

A team of local staff in Bangladesh met yesterday to decide how best to use a £200,000 allocation from the Start Fund for response to the recent flooding. 

The Start Fund launched in April for its six-month ‘design and build’ phase. Immediately, the first activation raised questions about the Fund’s scope and positioning. 

As in many conflict zones, instability can affect project design and delivery. Changing needs, emerging gaps and population variances are recurring aspects of emergency response projects all too familiar to humanitarian organisations.

At the best of times, the movement of internally displaced people into a host community can strain already scarce resources and create tensions. 

The sixth Start Fund allocation was made last week in response to the Cholera epidemic in Cameroon.

On July 8th 2014 the first four projects from the Start Build portfolio were able to begin with funding from the UK Department for International Development’s Disasters and Emergencies Preparedness Programme (DEPP).

Yesterday the Start Fund allocated £155,970 to provide assistance to people affected by the recent escalation of fighting in Amran, Yemen.