What’s the ‘Flagship Initiative’, and how might it transform emergency aid?

‘Once in a while, we need to shake it up, we need to break through bureaucracy, because it loses touch with what it was meant to achieve.’

You may not have heard of it yet, but many in the humanitarian aid sector are abuzz with anticipation about what is being referred to – in typically functional aidspeak – as the “Emergency Relief Coordinator’s Flagship Initiative”.