Disaster Risk Financing
Start Fund Bangladesh (SFB) is a civil society managed rapid emergency response pooled funding mechanism which was created in 2017. Following Start Network’s Start Fund, SFB releases funding within 72 hours of a crisis alert, and fills a crucial gap in humanitarian funding. RDRS Bangladesh became the member SFB in 2021 started the implementation since 2022.
During the reporting period, the project for 2023 (May 2023 to July 2023) ended on 31 July 2023 and the project for 2024 was for February 2024 only and the project is implemented in Kurigram district. A total of 21,795 vulnerable households covered during the periods.