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In the wake of the Geneva Forum, the emergence of Global Impact Projects to (re)finance International Geneva.
to observe or join the Global Impact Project that matches your organization and contribute to the financial sustainability of your missions. |
Why join a Global Impact Project
By joining a Global Impact Project, your organization:
- Gains access to already-structured multi-stakeholder consortiums, without having to create them alone
- Benefits from innovations and adaptations in financing models without necessarily undergoing heavy internal changes
- Participates in projects compatible with its mission and positioned just below the logical level of the UN
- Benefits from a financial leverage effect (impact finance, blended finance, strategic philanthropy) without bearing the risk alone
- Strengthens its ability to mobilize new funding, beyond traditional grants
- Contributes to sustaining Geneva’s role as an operational global hub
The Concept
These initiatives aim to break the traditional silos of the International Geneva ecosystem in areas such as climate, health, technology, education or humanitarian.
Rather than acting in isolation, each organization brings its specific expertise, forming large-scale multi-stakeholder consortiums capable of generating lasting structural change.
The Geneva Forum is neither a final beneficiary nor a financial intermediary.
It acts as:
- a catalyst,
- an interinstitutional facilitator,
- a continuous engineering mechanism,
serving the participating organizations and existing Geneva-based platforms.
What truly distinguishes this approach is its new financial model
- The focus shifts from “direct innovation” to “schematic innovation,” rethinking funding sources in response to the decline of traditional solidarity mechanisms.
- The Impact Finance Agile Tool serves as a compass to ensure that each project is investment-ready or clearly structured for philanthropy. This helps funders assess projects with confidence and transparency.
- Through disruptive partnerships, the Geneva Forum supports the design of these collaborations, while the Geneva Foundation For The Future supports their economic models to ensure long-term financial viability.
The AGILE tool serves as a common language between NGOs, International Organizations, funders, donors, foundations, and operators.
It easily enables:
- clarity of complex multi-SDG projects,
- securing financing trajectories,
- alignment of impact, governance, and economic viability.
Projects designed to be autonomous and decentralized.
Associations and local operators work in peer-to-peer networks, securing funding from municipal or regional institutions. This bottom-up approach strengthens autonomy, reduces dependence on central entities, and creates circular financial flows where platform users contribute to its sustainability.
This approach can be compared to assembling a giant puzzle. Rather than funding each piece separately, the model focuses on creating the full picture, allowing investors and philanthropists to support comprehensive, coherent solutions rather than isolated actions.
The result is a true transformation: a shift from organization-centered funding to project-based funding, local empowerment, and hybrid financing models combining philanthropy and investment to build sustainable action ecosystems.
International Geneva works for the world, and the world contributes to International Geneva.
How your organization can get involved
Several levels of engagement are possible depending on your interests:
- Become a strategic stakeholder
- Contribution of expertise
- Participation in steering committees
- Strategic alignment and international visibility
- Become an operational stakeholder
- Field implementation
- Workpackage leadership
- Access to downstream funding flows
- Become an institutional stakeholder
- Political support
- Multilateral legitimacy
- Alignment with mandates and normative frameworks
- Become a financial stakeholder
- Philanthropy
- Impact investing
- Blended finance
Engagement levels are adaptable and tailored to the real capacities of organizations, without imposed operational overload.
Global Impact Projects are designed to be compatible with the mandates of NGOs, Foundations, International Organizations, UN agencies, and public authorities, and to fund them in compliance with:
- the Host State Law,
- their internal governance rules,
- and without requiring internal organizational fees.
to observe or join the Global Impact Project that matches your organization and contribute to the financial sustainability of your missions. |
Listing of Projects and Progress Stages
Consult the projects:
- That have been introduced during the design thinking period
- That have been selected as eligible to carry out a sketch period
- More generally, the projects that have been proposed by the various actors of International Geneva and that are under review are accessible in the "Projects" section of the website.
(Once you have identified a project you would like to associate your organization with, contact us directly).
You wish to:
- explore a stakeholder role,
- position your organization in an existing consortium,
- or co-develop a Global Impact Project?
Contact the Geneva Forum team for a confidential exploratory discussion.
Methodology for Advancement and Implementation
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