22 - 23 October 2025
Palexpo, Geneva

Webinars - 2023

Webinars - 2023

AidEx has been held in Geneva since 2023. View the webinars we held in the run up to the event.

USAID Funding Seminar - How to enter and grow in the USAID market

USAID distributed more than $30 billion last fiscal year. Attend this seminar to learn best practices for starting and growing your work with USAID. We will share USAID partnering best practices that our team has learned through nearly a decade of supporting USAID partnering growth strategies. Come learn how to start building your organization’s USAID market strategy, and ways to get started as a subcontractor by connecting with established USAID primes. This seminar co-hosted with AidEx will cover AidKonekt’s “3-P” process to growing in the USAID market, and will give you tools you can take back to your organization to build and grow your USAID work. This will be targeted to international development and aid organizations interested in USAID funding. We will discuss changes under the Biden Administration, the New Partnerships Initiative, and USAID’s direction under Administrator Samantha Power.

This seminar is hosted in partnership with:

aidkonekt

 

Panellists include:

Mike Shanley

Mike Shanley

Founder and CEO, AidKonekt Data

Dr. Justus Kilonzi Paul

Dr. Justus Kilonzi Paul

Co-Founder, Savannah Informatics

Awele Okigbo

Awele Okigbo

Founder & CEO, Credo Advisory


 

The impact of locally-owned research and learning: Experiences from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan and India

The opportunities for local and national non-governmental organisations to undertake research and learning are limited. Research produced by a majority of Global North INGOs prevents the humanitarian system from having a locally led approach to learning, and may prevent the sector forming a realistic standing of how best to meet the needs of crisis affected populations.

This webinar on Thursday 11th May at 10:30 BST aims to explore the value of locally-led research and learning from the perspective of local and national NGOs. A panel of local and national organisations will share their experiences of undertaking research projects funded by Start Network and will discuss how the research and learning projects supported their organisational development and their understanding of the best ways to support and work with crisis affected communities.

This webinar is organised in partnership with:

Start Network

 

Panellists include:

Raima Mehmood

Raima Mehmood

Environment Specialist at HANDS based in Pakistan

Heather Brown

Heather Brown

Researcher at Start Network

Arsalan Ashraf

Arsalan Ashraf

CSR Manager at HANDS based in Pakistan

Alphonse Basanabo Kabala

Alphonse Basanabo Kabala

Supervisor at AFPDE in DRC

Isidore Kalikira Cihimbire

Isidore Kalikira Cihimbire

Founder and Coordinator at Midefehops in DRC

Tirtha Prasad

Tirtha Prasad

Global Communication Director, Amani Institute

Abi Jones

Abi Jones

Research Officer at Start Network

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