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Interactive Workshop: From humanitarian problem to financeable opportunity - reframing problems beyond grants
This 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 will shift the conversation from “how do we fund this need?” to “why does the current system fail, and what financing logic could help correct that failure?”
Rather than starting with financial instruments, the workshop will focus first on problem definition, financing logic and operational readiness. Using a practical workbook, participants will develop a sharper finance ready problem statement, identify key market failures, and make an initial match between the problem type and possible financing directions
Led by IMD, with insights from experienced practitioners, by the end of the 120 minute session, participants will be able to define a more finance ready humanitarian problem, identify the primary and secondary failures that prevent existing resources from working effectively, and make a first pass match between the problem and broad families of financial instruments.
This will be an action learning workshop, not a lecture. The format allows time for diagnosis, practical group work, peer exchange, and plenary debrief.
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