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Global Impact Projects: when International Geneva moves from pain to action
Following its December 2025 session, the Geneva Forum structured the working rhythm of the Global Impact Projects, designed as inter-silo architectures capable of funding international organizations, NGOs, scientific institutions, and mission-driven companies, due to the appeal of the economic models for funders.
The goal of these monthly workshops: concrete, clear, and fundable deliverables, capable of supporting the development of all stakeholder organizations involved in these Global Impact Projects, in order to secure their annual revenues and contribute to their growth, while respecting their respective missions.
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Money is not the issue in itself: what matters is that the €4 trillion circulating annually in the impact sector is directed toward International Geneva.
A Global Impact Project is a shared and structured mechanism, multi-stakeholder and multi-level, designed to:
- bring together the right stakeholders at the right time,
- clarify a value chain and an operable governance,
- produce a credible economic model centered on the mission,
- integrate philanthropy, impact investment, and blended finance from the design stage,
- and create deliverables that allow institutional funders to finance its stakeholders.
To transform the momentum from the December 2025 Forum into operational dynamics, the Geneva Forum organizes a one-day workshop per month in Geneva, usually on the 3rd or 4th Thursday of the month.
Objective: to collectively advance the Global Impact Projects identified through iterations, from intent to structured outline, then toward deliverables solid enough to trigger commitments at various public and private levels (partnerships, funding, mandates).
Possibility to participate in each module independently.
Morning: Impact Deal Factory
A morning of structuring work, common to all Global Impact Projects, open to already involved operators, observers, and new participants wishing to understand, position themselves, contribute, or engage their organization.
Afternoon: Capacity building and acceleration
An afternoon designed to cross networks, break down silos, attract missing expertise, and generate cooperation opportunities (the kind that are understood without being announced).
Each afternoon follows 3 sequences, in a deliberately fluid order:
- a monthly challenge-topic (a concrete entry point),
- a cross-cutting management theme (what makes the projects operable),
- an executive closing roundtable (decisions and mandates, operational roadmap for what’s next).
Possibility to continue the evening with a networking dinner.
16 April 2026
Kick-off and Production of the Global Impact Projects Sketches
Maison de l’Avenir - Geneva
The April 2026 session marks the operational shift in the annual cycle of the Global Impact Projects.
Its objective is to concretely initiate the drafting of sketches, to transform the consolidated project architectures from March into structured, readable, and actionable narratives, and to produce the first written deliverables serving as a basis for dialogue with partners and funders.
Morning – Launch of the Writing Phase
Welcome between 09:30 and 10:00.
Work session from 10:00 to 13:00.
Generic work open to involved operators, observers, and new stakeholders
The morning is dedicated to the transition from the project framework to the written sketch:
- recap of deliverables validated during the March session,
- positioning of the April workshop within the annual cycle,
- presentation of the concrete expectations for the sketch,
- typical structure of the sketch document (vision, challenges, solution, beneficiaries, impacts, governance, economic model, trajectory),
- division of writing tasks among the actors,
- formalization of value chains and contributions of each stakeholder,
- initial written economic formalization (level 2),
- definition of the deployment trajectory (pilot, ramp-up, replication, scaling).
Objective: initiate a first shared version of the sketch (version 0.5) for each Global Impact Project.
Lunch break from 13:00 to 15:00.
Afternoon
Strategic Theme of the Month: E-commerce as a Driver of Change
Management Theme of the Month: Writing for Finance
Possibility to participate in different modules independently.
Welcome between 14:30 and 15:00.
Work session from 15:00 to 17:30-18:00.
Sectoral Issues, Management, and Stakeholder Engagement
The afternoon explores the role of e-commerce as a systemic lever for transformation:
- e-commerce and impacts on consumption, production, logistics, and traceability,
- opportunities and limitations of existing models,
- conditions for genuinely impact-oriented e-commerce,
- integration of these levers into existing or emerging Global Impact Projects.
A dedicated time is set aside for the external readability of the projects and how they are perceived by funders, partners, and institutions.
Management Focus of the Month:
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