Report and Statement – Impact Finance: AGILE Tool Dry Run – Geneva Forum 2025

17th Geneva Forum – Palais des Nations (UN), Geneva – Monday, 8 December 2025

10th Annual International Conference on Philanthropy and Impact Investments for Peace and Development;
Impact finance and partnership opportunities: transdisciplinary projects, new sources of funding to support the goals of the United Nations and non-governmental organizations.

Afternoon Session: AGILE Tool Dry Run for Impact Finance.

The aim of the afternoon session was to examine, through several local and international projects, how the AGILE tool can assess the coherence, reliability, and maturity of impact projects, while testing its applicability in various operational contexts (urban, digital, educational, ecological, financial sovereignty).

The session was structured progressively, moving:
- from an initial panel of concrete examples (impact projects),
- to a methodological introduction of the AGILE tool,
- then to usage examples in different sectors,
- and finally to a full Dry Run in sub-groups, followed by feedback, critical debate, and an action-oriented closing.

Formats announced at the opening of the afternoon
- formation of sub-groups of 5 to 6 people,
- rapid selection of a real project (ongoing, known, in preparation, or used as a case study),
- use of printed templates distributed in the room,
- collective debrief towards the end of the afternoon, followed by a feedback exchange between the audience and the facilitation team.

The aim of a Dry Run is to check whether the tool allows fast progress without losing meaning, offering both training and a crash test.

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The AGILE Tool Dry Run was facilitated by Thomas EGLI, Tristan LESCURE, Aymeric JUNG, and Grégoire MOUHICA.

Agenda Followed During the AGILE Sequence (Execution Timeline)

Introduction to the AGILE tool for impact finance
- principles, structure, levels of use, evaluation philosophy
Examples of AGILE tool use across multiple sectors
- digital projects, NGOs, agriculture/soil, culture, responsible extractives (case studies)
Hands-on workshop (Dry Run) in sub-groups
- applying the grid, identifying strengths/weaknesses, internal discussion, and note consolidation
Group work debrief
- presentation of results, consensus areas, areas of divergence, open questions
Discussion and methodological feedback
- subjectivity, documentation, conditions for comparability, adoption by funders/governments, project protection
Q&A and closing
- directions for the rest of Geneva Forum week and the coming months; invitation to networking

The AGILE Tool

Foundations

The Geneva for Future Foundation published [a White Paper in which it proposes a simple and ambitious path->https://www.geneva-for-future.foundation/White-Book-AGILE.html]: to realign finance with purpose, by building an AGILE, transparent, and regenerative model. The central idea is clear: finance can become a driver of systemic transformation if it finally connects philanthropy, investment, and field action.

The [AGILE tool->https://www.geneva-for-future.foundation/White-Book-AGILE.html] offers this common language, based on 5 families of criteria, each with 5 questions scored out of 6 points, for a total of 150 points.

A - Alignment
G - Governance
I - Intention
L - Leadership
E - Efficiency

A relevant, robust, and transversal tool, suitable for public, private, and hybrid projects—useful for filtering, analyzing, adjusting, prioritizing, and supporting projects—capable of creating a common language of impact, essential in multi-