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Crisis Anticipation
The Start Fund Anticipation enables NGOs to prepare when they see a crisis coming and respond early to mitigate the predicted impacts. It is the first NGO funding mechanism to be available for anticipatory interventions.
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Don't wait, Anticipate
Since 2016 Start Network members have accessed the Start Fund in advance of a crisis and acted to mitigate and prevent the impact on at-risk communities before the disaster is forecast to strike. They have conducted risk analysis, monitoring forecasting information and crisis monitors of dynamic humanitarian situations to present timely alerts for Start Fund NGO-led decision making.
We believe that responding once the damage has been done is not good enough, and are advocating and building the evidence base alongside other actors to show and convince others that acting in anticipation saves money and lives.
We believe that responding once the damage has been done is not good enough, and are building the evidence base that acting in anticipation saves money and lives, as well as advocating alongside other actors for the mainstreaming of the anticipatory approach in the humanitarian sector. Local-level risk analysis, informed by the potential impacts on at-risk communities, is a necessary part of quality, risk-informed anticipatory action, and we are supporting this through building national FOREWARN groups.
At the World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016, UN Secretary-General called for the humanitarian community to invest in risk analysis and act early on findings. Through anticipatory funding disbursed through the Start Fund for small to medium crises, we are doing just that: In the future we will continue to anticipate crises globally, by working with forecasting agencies, academics and expert groups like FOREWARN, to better pre-empt humanitarian disasters worldwide.
Crisis Anticipation Online Training
Learning from Anticipation Alerts
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Crisis Anticipation Window Materials
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Analysis for Action Grant
Guidance notes on how to apply for an Analysis for Action Grant
Performance
Figures about anticipating through Start Funds since November 2016
26
Crises anticipated
38
Anticipation Alerts raised
7
Average days between alert and operations
21
Responses in # countries
6,238,616
Pounds disbursed
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