Upakul Unnayan Kendra
National NGO · Khulna · joined 2017
Alert B091 · Disaster Risk Financing
Anticipatory action ahead of a forecast cyclone landfall
The impact-based forecast trigger crossed threshold four days before projected landfall, releasing Start Ready funds for anticipatory distribution. Reaching households before the storm is the point of the mechanism: the whole allocation moved while the sky was still clear.
ActiveCycloneAnticipatory actionRaised 7 September 2026
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Anticipatory action in progress under a clear sky: volunteers handing over sealed dry-food packs at a community point, a cyclone shelter visible behind. The calm-before-the-storm contrast is what makes this image worth using.
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- People reached
- 41,200
- Funds disbursed
- £372,000
- Crisis to community reach
- 0days
What happened
Major activities
- Pre-positioned dry food and water for 8,240 households
- Anticipatory cash ahead of landfall
- Cyclone shelter readiness checks across 34 shelters
- Early warning dissemination in Bangla and local dialect
Timeline
Crisis occurred
11 September 2026
Alert raised by members
7 September 2026
Allocation decision
8 September 2026
Aid reached community
10 September 2026
- Crisis to alert
- 0 days
- Alert to decision
- 1 day
- Crisis to reach
- 0 days
Reach, disaggregated
- Women
- 13,100
- Men
- 10,400
- Girls
- 9,600
- Boys
- 8,100
- Persons with disability
- 1,480
Who responded
4 responding members
Each of these organisations lists this alert on its own profile — one relational field, populating both sides.
Sundarban Mohila Sangstha
Local NGO · Khulna · joined 2017
Chingri Palli Sangathan
Community-Based Organisation · Khulna · joined 2019
Bhatir Desh Foundation
National NGO · Barishal · joined 2017
Logo sequence
Acknowledgements
Per the brand manual, the Start Fund Bangladesh sequence runs donors → Start Fund Bangladesh → Start Bangladesh Hub → members → collaborators.
Donors
Start Ready
German Federal Foreign Office
Programme & Hub
Start Fund Bangladesh
Start Bangladesh Hub
Responding members
UUK
SMS
CPS
BDF
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Where
Districts covered by this alert
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4 districts · 5 upazilas
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