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If Global Partnerships Are To Work, They Must Work in Fragile Settings
Addressing the Global Partnerships Conference, this Forum Note calls for reconceiving humanitarian financing within a comprehensive resourcing approach. By layering grants with private capital and disaster risk financing, we can strategically protect fragile contexts where climate stress and conflict reverse development.
13th May, 2026
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Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2026
The Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2026 shows an unprecedented contraction in humanitarian funding, resulting in millions of people in crisis without assistance and backsliding on promised reforms.
16th Jun, 2026
If Global Partnerships Are To Work, They Must Work in Fragile Settings
Addressing the Global Partnerships Conference, this Forum Note calls for reconceiving humanitarian financing within a comprehensive resourcing approach. By layering grants with private capital and disaster risk financing, we can strategically protect fragile contexts where climate stress and conflict reverse development.
13th May, 2026
2026 Q1: Newsletter
This newsletter addresses the urgent humanitarian funding crisis, which is an estimated $29.5 billion shortfall, donor trends, and tools for risk-informed resilience.
14th Apr, 2026
Case Studies Recap: Humanitarian Finance Summit 2026
Developed with IMD’s Center for Social Innovation, the Case Studies Recap clearly articulates that the effectiveness of humanitarian finance depends less on novelty, and more on how well capital is designed to match context, risk, and time horizons.
19th Mar, 2026
Executive Summary: 2026 Humanitarian Finance Summit - Financing the Future of Humanitarian Action
The Humanitarian Finance Forum and AidEx convened over 500 senior leaders representing around 300 organisations from 39 countries at the QEII Conference Centre, London.
12th Mar, 2026
Scaling Humanitarian Impact Bonds: What Really Matters
Humanitarian Impact Bonds (HIBs) hold immense potential to mobilise private or philanthropic capital upfront for those who need it most, yet the question remains: how can they scale and replicate instead of remaining as bespoke, one-off pilots?
19th Feb, 2026
Economic and Financial Analysis Toolkit
Start Network recently published its “Economic and Financial Analysis (EFA) Toolkit”, providing a practical framework for assessing the cost-efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and cost-benefit of Anticipatory Action and Early Action.
16th Feb, 2026
2025 Year In Review: Newsletter
This edition of our newsletter looks forward to an expanded Humanitarian Finance Summit in February 2026, co-hosted by the Forum and AidEx at the QEII this February, while reviewing our 2025 highlights.
6th Jan, 2026
The State of Pre-Arranged Financing for Disasters 2025
The Centre for Disaster Protection published its third annual flagship report, ‘The State of Pre-Arranged Financing for Disasters 2025’ providing the most comprehensive, global view of how we plan and pay for crises.
15th Dec, 2025
Humanitarian Blended Finance: Exploring Models to Scale
Convergence Blended Finance published an enhanced data brief to build on the initial analysis of humanitarian blended finance transactions and trends, developed in collaboration with the Humanitarian Innovative Finance Hub (HIFHUB).
9th Dec, 2025
Climate Risk Insurance: A Compendium of Knowledge
KfW’s “Climate Risk Insurance: A Compendium of Knowledge” provides a strategic framework for shifting from reactive aid to proactive disaster preparedness by utilising innovative climate financing, anticipatory action, and rapid-payout insurance to protect vulnerable communities and maintain fiscal stability.
30th Nov, 2025
Cash Hub, ICRC, Proparco - Financial Inclusion of People Benefiting from Humanitarian Cash Transfers
A new report from Cash Hub, ICRC, and Proparco explores the crucial link of moving beyond mere cash account access to evaluate the necessary conditions for sustainable economic empowerment, and help humanitarian cash transfer recipients “graduate from aid” into long-term viable customers of financial services.
17th Nov, 2025
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