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For the final interactive restitution of the “Shaping the Future” workshop on new forms of collaboration within International Geneva, 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, 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

Thursday, June 25, 2026

Finalization and validation of the outline for the Global Impact Projects

Maison de l’Avenir, Impact Hub, Geneva

This session marks the closing of the first half of 2026 in the progress of the Global Impact Projects.

It will provide an opportunity to review the progress of the various Global Impact Projects currently being designed, and to focus specifically on the Global Citizen Water Watch.

Project progress update and focus on the Global Citizen Water Watch

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

Opportunity to take part in the morning on an exploratory basis, as an involved operator, observer, expert contributor, strategic partner or funder.

10:00 – 10:45: Strategic validation and finalization of the outlines

Generic work

This first sequence is dedicated to reviewing the progress of the outlines:

reminder of the shared validation criteria and closing objectives,
overall review and cross-reading of the outlines: coherence, clarity, differentiation,
validation of the final project scopes,
consolidation of impacts and level 2 indicators,
formalization of the monitoring-evaluation framework,
validation of the economic and financial model: sustainability, balances, needs by phase,
validation of the target governance and commitments of key partners.

Objective: to move the Global Impact Projects toward complete outlines (version 1.0)

Break from 10:45 to 11:00.

11:00 – 12:00: Strategic theme of the month — Global Citizen Water Watch

Global Citizen Water Watch

Sectoral challenges, citizen data and water governance

This sequence explores the conditions for structuring a global project around water governance through citizen data:

overview of water monitoring approaches: Participatory Science, sensors, open data,
challenges of data reliability, interoperability and traceability,
articulation between citizen observation and institutional systems,
multi-level governance challenges: local, national, cross-border,
possible role of Geneva in structuring global standards and platforms,
financing conditions and investor engagement for the transition to the APS phase.

Specific time is dedicated to financing conditions and investor engagement.

Break from 12:00 to 12:15.

12:15 – 13:00: Interactive round table — Validation, arbitration and scaling up

Decisions and support for project progress

Interactive round table:

Knowing how to validate, arbitrate and prepare scaling up

decide at the right time without delaying action or know when to take the time needed,
arbitrate without distorting the initial vision,
prepare the transition from prototype to system,
structure the governance of growth,
collectively simulate a decision to move to the Outline or APS phase,
analyze the engagement criteria of partners and investors.

The round table will in particular make it possible:

to formally validate the new Global Impact Projects currently moving toward outlines,
to appoint the teams responsible for current or upcoming outlines or APS phases,
to clarify financing conditions and pre-commitments,
to set the July–September roadmap,
to identify the arbitration points to be addressed immediately after the session.

End of the morning session at 13:00.

Afternoon of June 25th, 2026

Official and interactive feedback session from the "Shaping the Future" workshop Geneva Forum x Forum Mobilière

"What new collaboration models to jointly relaunch Geneva’s international hub"