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For the series of interactive consultation sessions on the proposal "Geneva, the Impact Capital", see below.

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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.

What is a Global Impact Project?

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.

A monthly meeting to refinance International Geneva’s organizations

To transform the momentum from the December 2025 Forum into operational dynamics, the Geneva Forum organizes a one-day workshop per month in Geneva.

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).

Typical workshop agenda

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 day follows 4 sequences, in a deliberately fluid order:

a monthly challenge-topic (a concrete entry point),
a progress update
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.

Next monthly workshop

Friday, October 23, 2026

Global Impact Projects: autumn cycle

Action Carbon, impact scaling and Geneva, impact platform

Geneva – Maison de l’Avenir

The session of October 23, 2026 continues the autumn cycle of the Geneva Forum Sustainable Management Workshops.

After the work carried out from January to June, several Global Impact Projects have reached a sufficient level of maturity to enter a professional concept-design phase, as soon as the dedicated funding has been secured.

The concept designs have not yet started. They constitute the next structuring step: remunerating the collective work, consolidating the consortia, specifying the economic models, clarifying the risks, preparing the governance frameworks and making the projects understandable for organizations, institutions, funders and partners.

The preliminary project outlines will then follow, project by project, after the concept designs have been finalized and the seed funding specific to each project has been obtained.

The autumn cycle prepares the professional concept designs, the preparation funding, the consortia, and the trajectory towards the Geneva Forum from December 7 to 11, 2026.

Program of the day

October 23 brings together four sequences:

Action Carbon, Global Impact Project of the month,
a collaborative workshop on impact entrepreneurship: Scaling an impact project towards a viable, replicable economic model that generates financial profits compatible with its mission,
a global update on the Global Impact Projects following Building Bridges,
a participatory consultation on Geneva, Capital of Impact.

This day is intended for international organizations, UN agencies, NGOs, scientific institutions, foundations, mission-driven companies, climate and biodiversity actors, sustainable finance actors, nature finance actors, funders, experts, entrepreneurs, project leaders, contributors and observers.

Come and understand the progress of the projects, contribute to the next steps, identify your place in the consortia, or connect your organization to a dynamic of structural impact.

Morning: Action Carbon and scaling impact

Welcome between 09:30 and 10:00.
Working session from 10:00 to 13:00.

The morning is open to participants wishing to discover, contribute, observe, fund, operate or join a project dynamic.

10:00 – 10:20: Opening

From project to structural scale

The morning begins with an update on the progress of the autumn cycle:

maturity acquired by the Global Impact Projects,
preparation of the professional concept designs,
funding needed for the collective work,
connection with the Building Bridges discussions,
preparation of the Geneva Forum from December 7 to 11, 2026.

The Global Impact Projects are designed as cross-silo architectures capable of strengthening and funding the organizations that contribute to them: international organizations, NGOs, scientific institutions, mission-driven companies, field operators, funders, local authorities, schools, universities and citizen networks.

Structural scale requires a method, governance, revenue, evidence and a capacity for sustainable cooperation.

10:20 – 11:10: Global Impact Project of the month

Action Carbon

Structuring carbon and nature finance solutions as a lever for transition, ecological integrity and territorial funding

Action Carbon explores how carbon, biodiversity and nature finance projects can be structured with a high level of scientific, territorial and financial integrity.

The project connects:

climate and biodiversity,
carbon capture and nature-based solutions,
territories and sustainable finance,
field organizations and investors,
impact measurement and governance,
ecological transition and structural revenue.

The presentation highlights the structuring points of the future professional concept design:

systemic problem addressed,
role of territories,
connection between carbon, biodiversity and nature finance,
conditions of scientific integrity,
stakeholders to be brought together,
possible economic models,
compatible financial instruments,
suitable governance,
evidence to be produced to make the project credible and financeable.

Action Carbon works on a central question: structuring carbon and nature finance solutions capable of funding the transition without weakening ecological integrity or scientific credibility.

11:10 – 11:25: Break

11:25 – 12:35: Collaborative workshop

Scaling impact

Scaling an impact project towards a viable, replicable economic model that generates financial profits compatible with its mission

This workshop continues the autumn cycle devoted to impact entrepreneurship.

The three workshops follow a simple progression:

September: transforming a changemaker idea into an impact project,
October: scaling an impact project towards a viable economic model that generates financial profits,
November: supporting an existing project towards impact.

The October session works on the transition from a promising project to a model capable of scaling up.

Participants will work on:

the conditions for scalability,
the distinction between growth, replication and scaling up,
recurring revenue,
margins,
delivery costs,
operational capacity,
growth governance,
suitable financial instruments,
dilution risks,
compatibility between financial profits and mission,
the evidence to be produced before mobilizing more capital.

Through practice

Each participant will be able to apply a simple framework to a project or organization:

value proposition,
beneficiaries,
payers,
recurring revenue,
direct costs,
coordination costs,
delivery capacity,
growth risks,
governance,
next evidence to be produced.

Bring a project, an offer, an organization or an economic model currently being structured. The workshop makes it possible to work on scaling up with precision, caution and ambition.

An impact project becomes scalable when its mission, economic model, governance and operational capacity progress together.

12:35 – 13:00: Morning summary

The morning ends with a collective summary:

lessons learned from Action Carbon,
methodological points useful for the other Global Impact Projects,
contributions from the workshop on scaling impact,
questions to deepen before November,
connection with the Geneva Forum in December 2026.