Impact Finance - Philanthropy, Investment and Blended Finance

 Frame

Following the publication of the AGILE tool and its 5 families of criteria in the White Paper of the Geneva Foundation for the Future, this session will be an opportunity to compare its concrete applications (Dry Run).

Infrastructures, industries, start-ups, foundations, philanthropists, family offices and impact funds will discover how to apply AGILE to their field: self-assessment, scaling a business model, differentiating projects or identifying the most financially profitable impact initiatives.

Actors of the International Geneva, NGOs and UN System in particular will be able to integrate this tool into the structuring of transversal impact projects, enabling both the breaking down of silos and access to these new forms of financing.

Participants will leave with ready-to-use operational methods, directly applicable to their daily practice.

The exchanges between the stakeholders of this meeting will take place both in the form of a Round Table between the speakers and in the form of group debates involving the Assembly’s audience.

Geneva - Monday, December 8, 2025, Morning

 Call for contribution

 Proceedings from Previous Years

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 Program

SCHEDULE AND SPEAKERS

You will find the complete program here 15 days before the event.

▪ 13:30–14:00: Pitch Round (6 min. max. per speaker)

● Théophile DAUVE and Raphael GALLOIS, Objectif Sciences International NGO A successfull urban renewal in London Abstract A study conducted in London shows that an industrial area can be transformed into a sustainable neighbourhood. Stave Hill Ecological Park, created on a former dock, now hosts a remarkable level of biodiversity, including the red fox — a key indicator of ecological resilience. The coexistence between humans and foxes is positive, providing both ecological and emotional benefits.

● Arno GATTOLLIAT OSI PANTHERA : A participatory research impact project Abstract Coming soon

● Eric GABIRAULT The Virtuous Platform – A Digital Trust and Ethical Governance Model for Financial Autonomy in the Global South Abstract Impact finance is opening new partnership opportunities capable of supporting transdisciplinary projects with strong social, economic and environmental value. In this context, the creation of a Virtual Platform (VP) for sovereignty and direct financing of communities in the Global South represents a strategic innovation aligned with SDGs 1, 9, 13 and 17. Designed as a “Digital and Ethical Guardian,” it ensures that the value generated from the preservation of endogenous knowledge remains in the hands of its original holders. The VP directly addresses two major barriers to financing:  information asymmetry, by providing reliable and transparent traceability of impact on the ground, and  digital dependency, by preventing the capture of local data by external platforms. By securing impact evidence, authenticating community contributions, and facilitating direct financial flows, the VP establishes a new trust mechanism for impact investors, donors and NGOs. A project with multiple impacts—socio-economic, climatic, technological and governance-related—the platform is now seeking funding to deploy this sovereign infrastructure in support of sustainable development across the Global South.

Following this session a statement will be published by the Geneva Forum to summarize what was discussed and decided during the session, and a prototype of an agile impact assessment tool for finance projects will be made available to partner organizations.

 Registration and Memberships

During the Geneva Forum, you can be a member of the audience, contribute ideas for Impact Projects or be in the process of scaling up Impact Projects, propose a Poster presentation, or submit a conference proposal to be delivered at the event. (Deadline for submitting an abstract: see the call for contributions for the conference)

To participate in the Geneva Forum, you must subscribe to the Membership "Event".

Once your membership has been validated, you will receive all the necessary logistical information, as well as the link to generate your badge for each event, a few days beforehand.