Flagship Initiative: Reimagining Humanitarian Action (Status Update One: February 2024)

Reimagining Humanitarian Action

Humanitarian emergencies are becoming more frequent, complex, and protracted. At the same time, the humanitarian operating environment is becoming more resource-constrained, uncertain, and complex.

In 2023, the Flagship Initiative was launched to reimagine a sustainable and ethical humanitarian system, one ready to face the new reality of increasingly complex challenges. The movement aims to deliver solutions and build resilience by ensuring the priorities of crisis-affected communities drive humanitarian assistance. Systematically engaging communities by localizing humanitarian decision-making, empowering local partners, and putting community priorities, capacities, risks, and resilience at the heart of humanitarian programming, the initiative seeks to create the space for a more holistic, community-driven, and sustainable humanitarian system.

This status updater for February 2024, the first from the initiative, looks at the work from the four countries piloting the initiative – Colombia, Niger, the Philippines, and South Sudan – and how they have engaged stakeholders in the humanitarian system, including donors, governments, partners, and communities, to promote the shift towards a community-centric coordination and response structure.

Find out more about the Flagship Initiative by visiting: https://www.unocha.org/flagship-initiative