Flagship Initiative Mid-Year Learning Learning Report, November 2024

Lewis Sida, Tina Nelis, Philip Proudfoot, Mariah Cannon, Patrick Andrey, Mónica Almanza, Manuel De Vera, Nyachangkuoth Rambang Tai

In November 2022, the then Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC), Martin Griffiths proposed an “initiative to pilot a people-centred, agile, locally driven response in a number of countries" to the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Principals. Subsequently, the Flagship Initiative (FI) was launched in early 2023 with a three year duration, as a humanitarian change process initially based around four country pilots (Niger, South Sudan, Philippines and Colombia) and now with strong interest from some other countries.

This mid-year learning report has a technical focus looking at progress and learning to date around three thematic areas: CE, decentralised coordination, and financing and planning. It follows on from the first year Flagship Initiative learning report, which documented the conceptual, administrative and partnership-building measures required to get the FI off the ground, as well as explaining the barriers to truly putting people at the centre of responses.