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Supply Chain and Procurement Room
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AidEx Main Stage
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AidEx Main Stage
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Discussion RoomLocally Led Action (LLA) has become a central commitment across the humanitarian and development system. From Grand Bargain pledges to organisational strategies, there is broad consensus that shifting …
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Workshop Room 1Digital payments hold enormous promise for aid delivery, so why do so many pilots break down? This workshop gets practical, drawing on real operational journeys from both INGO organizations, Coala Pay …
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Workshop Room 3This Aidex session on Early warning systems (EWS) in fragile and conflict affected settings will explore how hybrid, community-anchored EWS can address critical gaps in fragile and conflict-affected s …
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Workshop Room 1
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Workshop Room 1As digital health tools rapidly expand across low‑ and middle‑income countries, children and adolescents face growing risks—ranging from data misuse to algorithmic bias and online harm. This session b …
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Workshop Room 1Artificial intelligence (AI) is generating growing interest across the humanitarian and development sectors as a tool to improve data analysis, optimize resource allocation, strengthen early warning s …
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Innovative Finance Pavilion and ConferenceThis session will help participants understand which financing models are suited to which types of humanitarian problems. Rather than focusing on general introductory guidance, it will compare practic …
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Workshop Room 2
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Development2030 Main StageThis session shifts the centre of gravity from “mobilising capital” to “making capital actually work” in fragile and displacement‑affected contexts. It explores why climate adaptation approaches often …
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Workshop Room 1
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Development2030 Main Stage
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Development2030 Main Stage
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Development2030 Main Stage
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Supply Chain and Procurement Room
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Innovative Finance Pavilion and ConferenceThis session explores what it will take to move beyond localisation as a policy commitment towards financing models that enable locally led humanitarian action at scale. Bringing together donors, loca …
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Workshop Room 3Humanitarian needs continue to rise while available resources struggle to keep pace. Across the sector, organizations are increasingly faced with difficult decisions about where to focus assistance, w …
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Innovative Finance Pavilion and ConferenceThis session will examine what it takes to move from promising pilots to models that can be replicated or scaled across contexts. It will explore how humanitarian organisations, private sector partner …
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Workshop Room 3
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Discussion RoomHumanitarian organisations are increasingly expected to demonstrate results, support locally led learning and adapt rapidly to changing contexts. Yet many are grappling with the same question: how can …
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Workshop Room 1
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Supply Chain and Procurement Room
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Discussion RoomHumanitarian access is often discussed as a question of roads, permits, security constraints, and operational reach. But access is much more than geography or logistics. In today's crises, access is i …
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Innovative Finance Pavilion and ConferenceThis session will focus on what humanitarian organisations need internally in order to engage with innovative finance responsibly and effectively. It will draw directly on operational experience, incl …
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AidEx Main StageThe humanitarian system is undergoing historic transformation. Funding is shrinking, structures are being reshaped, operational realities are changing, and the longstanding consensus on what 'lifesavi …
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Innovative Finance Pavilion and Conference
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Innovative Finance Pavilion and Conference
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Innovative Finance Pavilion and Conference
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Development2030 Main StageDespite growing recognition that access to clean water and sanitation underpins health, resilience, gender equality, and economic development, the sector continues to face a significant financing gap. …
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Workshop Room 2This session will be a practical and accessible entry point into humanitarian innovative finance, helping participants examine humanitarian challenges through a market failure and systems lens. It wil …
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Innovative Finance Pavilion and ConferenceIslamic philanthropy and Shariah‑compliant social investment—such as Zakat, Sadaqah, Waqf, Takaful and Sukuk —represent a significant yet underutilised source of funding for humanitarian response and …
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AidEx Main Stage
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AidEx Main StageLeadership is rarely exercised in comfort or stability. Yet the current global context is stretching the boundaries of what humanitarian leaders have traditionally been prepared to navigate. Humanitar …Speakers
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Lessons from 30 years of humanitarian procurement - Can collaboration deliver the next leap forward?Supply Chain and Procurement Room
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Supply Chain and Procurement RoomWho decides how humanitarian fleets move - and who lives with the consequences? This session looks at localisation through an operational lens: not funding or programme design, but the day-to-day deci …
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Workshop Room 3
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AidEx Main StageThis opening plenary will frame humanitarian innovative finance through practical solutions already being tested in operational settings. It will explore how organisations are using different financin …
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Supply Chain and Procurement Roomthis panel brings together donors, humanitarian supply chain leaders, compliance and governance experts, and private sector procurement and technology leaders to explore how organizations can strength …
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Supply Chain and Procurement Room
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AidEx Main Stage
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Workshop Room 3Education has become one of the greatest humanitarian challenges of our time. As conflict, displacement and climate shocks continue to disrupt learning for millions of children, the sector faces a dif …
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AidEx Main StageThis session is intended to be a high-level, multi-stakeholder conversation confronting one of the most urgent yet under-addressed issues in global development: the ongoing reorganisation of the human …
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Workshop Room 2Gender-based violence is rising across conflict-affected settings just as humanitarian resources are under unprecedented pressure. Rather than asking how to do more with less, this session explores ho …
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Workshop Room 3Mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) remains one of the most urgent yet under-resourced aspects of humanitarian response, despite the growing needs of people affected by conflict and crises. …
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Workshop Room 2
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Discussion Room
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AidEx Main Stage
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Supply Chain and Procurement Room
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AidEx Main Stage
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Workshop Room 3The humanitarian sector is facing a growing imbalance between rising needs and increasing constraints. While financial resources are tightening, access to affected populations is becoming more limited …
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Discussion RoomFragile and conflict‑affected contexts are home to a growing share of people living in extreme poverty, where repeated shocks, displacement, weak institutions, and limited livelihood opportunities und …
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Workshop Room 2This session addresses the compounding, cascading impacts of climate shocks on water, sanitation, and food security, exploring how climate volatility drives the direct collision of hunger, water scarc …
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AidEx Main Stage
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Development2030 Main Stage
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Workshop Room 1
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Workshop Room 3For NGOs and humanitarian aid organisations operating in difficult and rapidly changing environments, a people incident rarely remains just a people incident. A medical emergency, detention, security …
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Discussion RoomThe humanitarian system is navigating a defining period of transition. Escalating crises, widening funding gaps, geopolitical fragmentation, shrinking humanitarian space, and growing pressure on multi …
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Development2030 Main StageAt the AidEx Nairobi 2026 regional convening, a high-level discussion explored how access to livelihoods, finance and markets strengthens resilience and reduces vulnerability in fragile contexts. Buil …
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Workshop Room 2
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Development2030 Main StageThis session tackles a central blockage in adaptation finance: risk that is misallocated, misunderstood or invisible, particularly in fragile contexts. It brings together DFIs, private investors, ente …
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Innovative Finance Pavilion and Conference
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Development2030 Main StageResilience is increasingly recognized as an economic challenge as much as a humanitarian or climate challenge. Communities are strongest when women, young people, persons with disabilities, and other …
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21 - 22 October 2026
Palexpo, Geneva
Palexpo, Geneva
21 - 22 October 2026
Palexpo, Geneva
Palexpo, Geneva
21 - 22 October 2026
Palexpo, Geneva
Palexpo, Geneva
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