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In late 2016, the Start Fund was alerted to an outbreak of dengue fever in Burkina Faso. Read ALIMA's account of their efforts to combat the disease.

When Typhoon Nock-Ten made landfall on December 25, Joana Villaflor had just arrived home for Christmas on Catanduanes island. Joana, a member of On Call Surge Philippines, a shared roster set up by the Start Network’s Transforming Surge Capacity project, gives an account of the days following the typhoon.

Start Network's Annemarie Poorterman tells us more about her work to set up a national version of the Start Fund in Bangladesh.

In one of the most unique Start Fund projects to date, ACTED provide an overview of their response to Typhoon Nock-Ten in the Philippines. 

Do you track rumours, misinformation or disinformation as part of your work? Know what to do next when you have identified a rumour to manage it? If you are currently working on rumour tracking and management, the CDAC Network want to hear about your work.

Start Network members have begun tackling sudden humanitarian crises involving migrants in the Mediterranean region through a new rapid response fund, financed by aid from the UK government.

Paul Currion discusses the potential of the Start Fund's blockchain pilot to revolutionise ways of working in the humanitarian sector

Yitna Tekaligne, country director, Christian Aid Ethiopia, discusses new approaches to tackling poverty and gives examples from four social enterprises in Kenya.

International aid organization and Start Network member CARE International has published a new report highlighting ten humanitarian crises that have received the least media attention in 2016.

It’s home to 50,000 people, living in regimented rows of identical white portable cabins in an arid, cold and windy region of Jordan. Some have been living there for more than three years – men, women and children from across Syria. Many of the youngest children have spent their entire lives there.