Geneva Sustainable Management Workshops

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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, 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).

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 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.

Next monthly workshop

Friday May 22nd, 2026

At United Nations, Room S4, Palais des Nations, Geneva

Consolidation of the Global Impact Projects Sketches

United Nations, Palais des Nations, Geneva (To receive room information and the link to create your UN access badge, please make sure you have created a user account on this website)

The May 2026 session is dedicated to the in-depth consolidation of the Global Impact Projects sketches initiated since April.

This is no longer about writing new components, but about testing, adjusting, and strengthening the sketches so that they are coherent in substance, economically credible, readable for third parties, and robust enough to prepare for finalization in June.

Morning – Strategic and Economic Consolidation

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

Generic work open to involved operators

The morning is dedicated to critical analysis and reinforcement of the ongoing sketches:

review of the sketches produced since April and shared maturity assessment,
verification of overall coherence between problem, solution, impacts, and economic model,
adjustments to scope and systemic logic if necessary,
deepening and prioritization of targeted impacts (primary / secondary),
initial hypotheses of qualitative and quantitative indicators,
strengthening of the economic model (level 3) and sustainability testing in the short, medium, and long term,
improvement of financial and institutional readability.

Objective: to obtain a consolidated sketch (version 0.8), credible and readable, ready to enter the finalization phase in June.

Lunch break from 13:00 to 15:00.

Afternoon

Strategic Theme of the Month: Global Citizen Science Alliance for Ocean

Management Theme of the Month: Risk Management and Project Credibility

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 is dedicated to the exploration of an emblematic Global Impact Project and the conditions for large-scale credibility:

systemic issues related to the Ocean (climate, biodiversity, economy, security, peace),
Geneva’s legitimacy as a coordination platform for global impact projects serving the Ocean,
feedback from the Global Impact Project “Global Citizen Science Alliance for Ocean”,
identification of scaling levers and key watchpoints.

A dedicated time is set aside for identifying risks (technical, regulatory, reputational, financial) and related mitigation strategies.

Management Focus of the Month: