B092ActiveFloodResponse
Flash flooding across haor communities in Sunamganj
Raised 15 Sept 2026
- Reached
- 24.8K
- Disbursed
- £218,000
- Location
- Sunamganj, Habiganj
- Crisis to community reach
- 7 days
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B091ActiveCycloneAnticipatory
Anticipatory action ahead of a forecast cyclone landfall
Raised 7 Sept 2026
- Reached
- 41.2K
- Disbursed
- £372,000
- Location
- Satkhira, Khulna, Bagerhat, Patuakhali
- Crisis to community reach
- 0 days
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Boat-level view of a flooded haor settlement with a member-organisation volunteer in a marked vest. Establishes urgency and the scale of water.
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NewsAlert
Alert B092 activated for flash flooding in Sunamganj
Members raised the alert the morning after water crossed danger mark; the allocation committee activated within 48 hours.
17 Sept 20263 min read
NewsGovernance
The Hub completes its transition to an autonomous, locally governed network
After a decade as a programme-hosted platform, the Start Bangladesh Hub now holds its own governance, accountability and funding relationships.
8 Sept 20264 min read
NewsStart Ready
Start Ready releases funds four days before forecast cyclone landfall
The impact-based forecast trigger crossed threshold while the sky was still clear, moving the full allocation ahead of the storm.
8 Sept 20264 min read
NewsFOREWARN
FOREWARN Bangladesh publishes its monsoon 2026 risk briefing
The expert and youth network's seasonal outlook sets out hazard-specific watchpoints for the months ahead.
28 May 20263 min read
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Earlier updates
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Coalition signing or first joint planning meeting — five organisations' representatives at one table. Shows collaboration between local actors rather than with an international intermediary.
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NewsLCA
Five members form a coalition in Khulna under the Local Coalition Accelerator
Shared governance, pooled capability and a joint funding proposition — built to outlast the project that seeded it.
22 Apr 20265 min read
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Flat-lay or held copy of the printed annual report showing the cover and the Hub logo. Simple, no people needed.
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NewsTransparency
Annual Report 2025 published
Alert activity, funds disbursed, governance transition and member growth, with audited accounts alongside.
18 Apr 20262 min read
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Impact stories & blogs
What changed, told through the people and organisations it changed things for.
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Portrait of a woman standing on her homestead mound with stored dry food and a small livestock pen intact behind her — taken after the water receded. The absence of loss is the subject, which is hard to photograph and worth briefing carefully.
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Impact storyAnticipatory action
The month the money arrived before the water did
In four haor unions, funding released on a forecast changed what families had to sell, and what they got to keep.
2 Jul 20267 min read
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A member organisation's small office during an alert: staff on phones, a whiteboard with union names and figures. Shows local decision-making as work, not ceremony.
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Impact storyStart Fund
What 72 hours actually buys
Members describe what changes in a response when the decision is made locally and the money moves in three days rather than three weeks.
19 Jun 20266 min read
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Community workers rebuilding a breached embankment, water on one side and homes on the other — the reference image from the brand manual for Alert B054.
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Impact storyCyclone Remal
Rebuilding the embankment, and who decided how
After Cyclone Remal, repair work on connecting roads and embankments was designed by the communities that use them.
11 Feb 20258 min read