This framework has been developed to help Start Network, our members and teams understand and address the many ways in which racism and colonialism can affect our work. Download the Framework In Arabic In Bengali In English In French In Spanish
This photo book covers the photos captured during each project implemented under Start Fund Nepal Pilot phase. It has covered the information about Start Fund Nepal and the glimpse of each alert along with the photos from each intervention carried out during project.
The monthly risk briefing reports on new, emerging or deteriorating situations; therefore, ongoing events that are considered to be unchanged are not featured and risks that are beyond the scope and scale of the Start Fund are also not featured.
The monthly risk briefing reports on new, emerging or deteriorating situations; therefore, ongoing events that are considered to be unchanged are not featured and risks that are beyond the scope and scale of the Start Fund are also not featured. It is collated by the Start Network Anticipation and Risk Financing team using information from academia and research institutes, government departments, ACAPS, global risk indexes, risk information provided by Start Members and their partners, and the media. Key risks are shared and collated each month with FOREWARN input.
In 2021, Start Network commissioned a piece of research to analyse issues around gender for Disaster Risk Finance programming, in order to make recommendations to help us ensure the DRF systems we build and support are fully gender-sensitive, and to ensure that our programmes adequately account for gender differences at different points of the project cycle. Based on the ‘Missing Voices’ methodology developed by Practical Action, the research sought to hear from those individuals who are most marginalised, to gain insight into their experiences in order to design more inclusive approaches to disaster risk management. The research included a deep dive into two case studies - Bangladesh and the Philippines - to illustrate the gendered dimensions of DRF programming with real-life experiences.
As the Start Network continues to focus on Disaster Risk Financing programming, this research was commissioned to analyse the issues and additional considerations around gender in DRF programming. Making programming most effective includes ensuring that the DRF systems that we build or support are fully gender-sensitive and adequately account for gender differences at different points of the project cycle. This includes how gender issues might differ across different hazard types (eg. fast vs. slow onset) and geographic contexts, and the approaches we can take to account for them. Specifically, the purpose of this research is to answer the following two questions: 1) Which points in DRF System development and implementation are likely to have the most significant gendered aspects? How might this vary between hazards and contexts? 2) How can our disaster risk financing ‘building blocks’ (i.e the guidance we give to Start Network members for building quality DRF systems) be enhanced to fully mainstream gender? This research was led by Practical Action Consulting and the case studies were carried out by CARE Bangladesh and CARE Philippines, with close support from the Start Network.
En 2020, Start Network llevó a cabo una encuesta entre 98 organizaciones locales y nacionales (75 hombres y 23 mujeres de 32 países) que se habían asociado previamente con Start Network o con un miembro de Start Network. El objetivo de la encuesta era comprender mejor el funcionamiento de las asociaciones. La encuesta pretendía identificar los retos y las oportunidades de las asociaciones de colaboración e igualdad entre los miembros de Start Network y los socios locales. El 94 % de los socios locales consideró que la interacción fue “muy positiva” o “positiva”, sin embargo, la mayoría (86 %) también consideró que había más cosas que Start Network o los miembros de Start Network deberían hacer para construir una relación más fuerte. Lea el resumen ejecutivo en bangla, francés, indonesio, inglés y urdu
The monthly risk briefing reports on new, emerging or deteriorating situations; therefore, ongoing events that are considered to be unchanged are not featured and risks that are beyond the scope and scale of the Start Fund are also not featured. It is collated by the Start Network Anticipation and Risk Financing team using information from academia and research institutes, government departments, ACAPS, global risk indexes, risk information provided by Start Members and their partners, and the media. Key risks are shared and collated each month with FOREWARN input.
Disaster risk financing is an innovative approach for timely and predictable crisis management. With decisions about how a crisis will be monitored, funded and acted on taken in advance, there are new opportunities and challenges around ensuring accountability to affected populations (AAP).
Start Network is a global network of more than 50 Non-Governmental Organisations, working across six continents. The aim of the network is to tackle what it sees are the biggest systemic problems in the humanitarian action sector and to transform humanitarian action through innovation, fast funding, early action, and locally led action.
