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This 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 …Speakers
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This 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 …Speakers
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Humanitarian financing is sell largely built around ex-ante commitments: fund the activity, trust the plan, report the results. But in real humanitarian geographies — places affected by conflict, disp …Speakers
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Who 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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The humanitarian system is navigating a defining period of transition. Escalating crises, widening funding gaps, geopolitical fragmentation, shrinking humanitarian space, and growing pressure on multi …Speakers
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For 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 …Speakers
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At a time of severe financial pressure and rapid technological change, the Switzerland–UNHCR partnership shows how International Geneva can bring together public, academic and private-sector expertise …Speakers
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This 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 …Speakers
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Islamic 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 …Speakers
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Marking the Inter-Agency Procurement Group's (IAPG) 30th anniversary, this session will explore how humanitarian procurement has evolved over the past three decades and the role collaboration has and …Speakers
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Humanitarian standards have saved countless lives over the last 30 years, but who sets those standards? Meet the leading humanitarians guiding the revision of the Sphere Handbook, get an update on cur …
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Humanitarian organisations are designed to respond when crisis strikes. But what happens when the crisis affects the responders themselves? In protracted and high-risk humanitarian contexts, local hum …Speakers
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This presentation will share a real-life humanitarian success story where severe flooding placed a critical water facility serving local communities at immediate risk. The incident occurred during an …
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Humanitarian 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 …Speakers
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This 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 …Speakers
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This 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 …Speakers
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This 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 …Speakers
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Humanitarian organisations are operating in an increasingly complex environment marked by funding constraints, heightened scrutiny, evolving donor requirements and growing expectations around accounta …Speakers
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Gender-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 …Speakers
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Don’t just tell your people to do more with less. Equip and engage them to improve how they work so they can serve more people in a better way. Humanitarian organisations are under enormous pressure t …
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Two of the most widely used approaches to fighting extreme poverty – the Graduation Approach (GA) and Market Systems Development (MSD) – have historically been implemented as parallel tracks: one stre …Speakers
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This 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 …Speakers
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Humanitarian action in the Middle East is shaped by extreme volatility, protracted crises, and rapidly shifting political, security, and socio-economic dynamics. Across contexts such as Lebanon, Yemen …Speakers
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Despite significant investment in poverty reduction, progress toward SDG 1 (No Poverty) remains uneven. Increasingly, governments, development finance institutions, humanitarian organisations, investo …Speakers
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Artificial 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 …Speakers
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Climate change is not only an environmental challenge. It is a public health crisis with profound implications for children, women, and vulnerable populations living in fragile and humanitarian settin …Speakers
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Education 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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This 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 …Speakers
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Supply chains are increasingly being used to advance some of the humanitarian sector's most important priorities, including preparedness, localization, sustainability, accountability, and digital tran …Speakers
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If we broadly agree on what equitable partnerships should look like, how can we navigate the competing demands that make their implementation so difficult in practice? This Middle Ground Debate – an i …Speakers
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Resilience 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 …Speakers
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Digital 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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Whether you're looking to secure your first UN contract or better understand how the procurement system works, this session is designed for organisations that are not yet supplying the UN, as well as …Speakers
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The 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 …Speakers
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The transformative power of non-transactional partnerships: How a trust-based alliance in Zimbabwe built a locally-led humanitarian financing mechanism - and what can be learned from that experience. …Speakers
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Mental 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. …Speakers
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The humanitarian system is undergoing historic transformation. Funding is shrinking, structures are being reshaped, operational realities are changing, and the longstanding consensus on what 'lifesavi …Speakers
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A health session that exposes the localization debate from the inside "Any help that is done for me without me is done against me." Ten years after the Grand Bargain commitments on localization, this …Speakers
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Malawi’s vulnerable communities face recurrent severe flooding, fragmented risk information, and uncertain and delayed humanitarian funding. This case study examines an approach to pre-arranged flood …
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The presentation will be delivered by Eng.Yousef and will highlight Direct Aid’s approach to developing and sustaining water projects across Africa.
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Humanitarian practice and research too often move on separate tracks. Practitioners hold hard-won lessons from the field, while researchers build the evidence base, yet the two rarely meet in time to …
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This session explores strategies for scaling and maintaining sustainable water and sanitation ecosystems across both development and prolonged humanitarian settings. As traditional foreign aid models …Speakers
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Join an international team of humanitarian experts for a fast-paced, high-energy simulation exercise. When disaster strikes, how will you make decisions quickly, collectively and ethically? The clock …
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Iraq's micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) face persistent barriers to growth with the financing gap for SMEs estimated at 6.5 Billion USD, including limited access to affordable financ …Speakers
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When health systems collapse, patients do not stop needing care. Chronic diseases do not pause for conflict. Communities do not stop giving birth, contracting infections, or requiring surgery because …Speakers
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Fragile 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 …Speakers
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This 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 …Speakers
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Supply chains are the backbone of the humanitarian response, and yet even as coordination increases across the sector, individual organizations supply chain systems don’t have ways to speak with each …Speakers
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Tearfund and Global Parametrics are scaling a portfolio-based insurance model that pools climate risk across countries in Africa and Asia. Global Parametrics’ Water Balance Index and satellite data tr …
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As traditional global health financing comes under increasing pressure, new approaches to financing, partnerships, technology and service delivery are reshaping how healthcare can be delivered. This s …Speakers
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As 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 …Speakers
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A technology institute in Spain's Canary Islands, together with the International Red Cross and the World Food Program (United Nations), set out to answer a deceptively simple question: how do you del …Speakers
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Leadership 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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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 wil …
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Humanitarian 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 …Speakers
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As humanitarian need rises and logistics funding shrinks, the sector needs fresh approaches and partnership models to sustain and scale aid delivery. This session presents new sector-wide research by …
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This 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 …Speakers
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Diagnostic programmes often demonstrate progress through the numbers that are easiest to count: devices purchased, facilities equipped and health workers trained. These measures matter because they sh …Speakers
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As humanitarian needs continue to grow while public funding comes under increasing pressure, neither the humanitarian sector nor the private sector can solve today's challenges alone. Yet too often, r …Speakers
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Syria’s recovery presents a critical challenge: how to address urgent humanitarian needs while investing in the services, livelihoods and institutions that underpin a sustainable future. Bridging thes …Speakers
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The world is facing increasing and extreme crises, such as conflict and climate-driven disasters, which are cutting people off from health services and putting decades of progress on HIV at risk. Thes …
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Across the humanitarian system, there is increasing recognition that national and local actors play important roles in efforts on resilience, anticipatory action and emergency response. Through the Gr …
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