Webinar: Financial Inclusion of People Benefitting from Humanitarian Cash Transfers
Hosted by the Cash Hub, in collaboration with Altai Consulting, PROPARCO, HIFHUB and the ICRC, this session presented preliminary findings from a joint study on how individuals receiving humanitarian cash assistance engage with financial services.
Panel discussion: Humanitarian Blended Finance for Water
At World Water Week 2025, our online panel discussion explored how Humanitarian Blended Finance (HBF) can align public and private interests with humanitarian and development needs to deliver lasting solutions.
New Webinar Series to Help National Societies Navigate Humanitarian Innovative Finance
In a rapidly evolving financial landscape, humanitarian organisations, including Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies, are facing a deepening funding crisis. Traditional sources of humanitarian aid are becoming increasingly unpredictable, while the scale and complexity of crises continue to grow.
Landscape Review: Impact Bonds in Humanitarian and Development Settings
This Landscape Review was compiled by Bénédicte Kariger for the HIFHUB to help stakeholders assess the potential of social impact bonds, development impact bonds, and related models to finance programmes in development and humanitarian settings.
Webinar: Humanitarian Blended Finance – Going Beyond Grants For Sustainable Impact
As humanitarian needs become increasingly long-term and complex, there is a growing need to mobilise and align humanitarian, public, and private resources in more strategic ways. Humanitarian Blended Finance (HBF) offers one such approach, supporting sustainable impact through innovative partnerships and financing models.
Now Out: Exploring Innovative Finance Learning Package
The Exploring Innovative Finance e-learning curriculum is designed for RCRC staff interested in learning more about this field. It introduces key concepts, explains why they matter, and offers real-life examples of how innovative finance is already being applied.
Apply Now: IMD Business School Programme
Ready to move beyond grants — and learn how to structure your initiative for investment?
The 2025 Driving Innovative Finance for Impact (DIFI) Program at IMD Business School offers practical, hands-on learning with a strong focus on case studies and unique insights from guest speakers. You don’t need a project to apply — but if you have one, you’re welcome to submit it. Apply now via the link below. Deadline: 29 August.
Webinar: Humanitarian Insurance, Leveraging Risk Sharing To Unlock Additional Resources
As traditional funding becomes increasingly unpredictable, National Societies need new ways to stay financially sustainable. Humanitarian innovative finance (HIF) offers fresh solutions to diversify funding, boost sustainability, and create lasting impact.
Webinar: Early Findings and Best Practices for HBF in Fragile Contexts
This one-hour session, hosted by HIFHUB’s Juan Coderque in collaboration with Chris Clubb from Convergence Blended Finance, brings together insights from across sectors as part of the Grand Bargain Community of Practice on Humanitarian Innovative Financing.
Learning Package: Exploring Innovative Finance
Launched in June 2025, this learning package is aimed at Red Cross and Red Crescent staff interested in how humanitarian innovative finance can address growing needs amid limited donor funding. It offers short, flexible courses covering the basics of humanitarian innovative finance and its instruments. The content is practical and accessible, with standalone modules tailored for different roles within the Movement.
Recommended Courses on Humanitarian Innovative Finance
Looking to build your skills in humanitarian innovative finance? This curated list of recommended courses will help you understand the fundamentals, explore emerging models, and gain practical tools to design and implement innovative finance solutions in humanitarian and fragile settings. Whether you’re just getting started or looking to deepen your expertise, these courses offer valuable insights into how financial innovation can support more effective, sustainable humanitarian action.
The Impact of Impact Measurement
This 2024 elea (Foundation for Ethics in Globalization) white paper offers a framework for distinguishing impact investment strategies and highlights challenges in measuring impact across different models.
Driving Innovative Finance for Humanitarian Impact Programme
Innovative finance for humanitarian and development impact involves cross-sector partnerships, new working methods, and resource mobilization, requiring diverse skills from actors like NGOs, businesses, and investors. The IMD’s Driving Innovative Finance for Humanitarian Impact programme equips participants to lead such projects by developing practical tools and solutions for high-impact challenges.
Webinar: Humanitarian Innovative Finance – Solutions Beyond Grants
As traditional funding becomes increasingly unpredictable, National Societies need new ways to stay financially sustainable. Humanitarian innovative finance (HIF) offers fresh solutions to diversify funding, boost sustainability, and create lasting impact.
Humanitarian Impact Finance: Instruments & Approaches
The 2024 Humanitarian Impact Finance: Instruments & Approaches report from IMD Business School, co-authored by HIFHUB’s Senior Advisor Juan Coderque, explores the tools and strategies shaping the future of humanitarian innovative finance. Developed in collaboration with Foundation Lombard Odier and the La Caixa Foundation it’s a practical guide to unlocking sustainable solutions.