Save the Children
Save the Children is a leading children's charity working in 120 countries. It provides education, healthcare and disaster relief and protects the rights of children.
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We're tackling what we believe are the biggest systemic problems that the sector faces.
Our initiatives aim to transform humanitarian action through innovation, fast funding, early action, and localisation.
We are committed to transparency, accountability, evidence-led decision-making and using learning to continuously evolve.
News and blog articles from across the Start Network.
Save the Children is a leading children's charity working in 120 countries. It provides education, healthcare and disaster relief and protects the rights of children.
News Article
Une nouvelle police d'assurance protégera jusqu'à 160 000 personnes contre les sécheresses au Sénégal
Start Network a signé une police d'assurance contre les risques climatiques qui protégera jusqu'à 160 000 personnes au Sénégal des effets de la sécheresse. Cette police, l'une des premières de ce genre, permettra aux organisations humanitaires d'apporter une aide cruciale aux Sénégalais dès qu'une sécheresse sera prévue, contribuant ainsi à éviter la famine.
07Oct21
News Article
New insurance policy will protect up to 160,000 people in Senegal from drought
Start Network has signed a climate risk insurance policy that will protect up to 160,000 people in Senegal from the effects of drought. One of the first of its kind, the policy will enable aid agencies to offer life-saving support to people in Senegal as soon as a drought is predicted, helping to prevent famine.
07Oct21
Blog Post
The African Risk Capacity Replica
What are the significant challenges that humanitarian organisations face today when responding to disasters?
16Oct18
Blog Post
Global Fund 250th crisis alert: Ebola outbreak in the DRC
A fresh outbreak of Ebola in the North Kivu province of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has become the focus of the 250th alert by the Start Fund.
10Aug18
Blog Post
Are Your Deployees Prepared?
When humanitarian disasters happen, aid needs to be rapidly brought to the centre of the crisis zone and concentrated there until the situation has stabilised. Surge capacity measures how quickly and effectively this surge of temporary aid can be brought to a disaster zone, and how smoothly it can be scaled down again afterwards.
29Mar18
Blog Post
Developing women leaders in the humanitarian sector
On International Women’s Day, Wanjiru Wainaina tells about her journey from wondering what she was going to do with her life, to working and building skills as a humanitarian in Kenya and now studying at Oxford Brookes University.
07Mar18
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