The IMD Driving Innovative Finance for Impact (DIFI) Programme is designed to help you design and lead innovative financing projects that create real, meaningful change for vulnerable communities.

Human Planet by KOIS and MzN International was unveiled at the Humanitarian Finance Summit in London on 14 February 2025.

A new report, Humanitarian Impact Finance: Instruments & Approaches, sheds light on promising new solutions.

In this episode, guests discuss ways to turn Somalia’s climate vulnerability to climate resilience.

For the first time, an insurance payout has been triggered by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - IFRC Disaster Response Emergency Fund (hashtag#DREF), as demands for disaster relief surpassed its ‘deductible’ threshold. Speaking at United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, IFRC Under Secretary General Nena Stoiljkovic said: “For the first time ever a single, worldwide, commercial indemnity insurance policy will pay the emergency humanitarian costs of disasters.”

This course helps you develop organisational capacity for innovative finance transactions in fragile settings.

A pioneering initiative where investors provide upfront capital to fund a vocational, entrepreneurship, and resilience-building programme for refugees and members of their host communities.

The African Risk Capacity (ARC) Group's USD 11.6 million payout to Malawi and its Replica partner, the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency is a testament to the power of innovative finance in supporting humanitarian efforts. It is the largest drought payout in Malawi, addressing the worst drought in 100 years.

Last month, The Forum concluded a successful year with our participation at the prestigious Doha Forum where we co-hosted a panel titled "Reimagining Financial Markets for Humanitarian Impact: The Role of Small States & Private Sector Partnerships," emphasizing the crucial role of innovative financing in addressing global humanitarian challenges. This blog from Simon Kingston, our panel moderator, offers three key takeaways from the discussion as we look ahead to 2024.

The International Centre for Humanitarian Finance (iCHF) concept was conceived from the Ditchley Park Initiative Still too important to fail - addressing the humanitarian financing gap to act as an incubator, catalyst, and potential seed funder in the humanitarian finance sector.

On Tuesday 17th November 2023, we hosted The London Summit, which brought together leaders from civil society, governments, multilateral agencies, and private sector companies. Our goal? To facilitate a progressive dive into humanitarian response, disaster risk finance, and innovative insurance mechanisms, through meaningful cross-sector dialogues and partnerships.

Advancing equity is the World Health Organization pandemic treaty’s goal. O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health