Driving Innovative Finance for Impact
Developing organizational capacity for innovative finance transactions in fragile settings
Innovative finance for humanitarian impact requires a new set of skills for all involved, including financial expertise, change management and partnership building. To develop new ways of working, collaboration between humanitarian and development actors, corporates and investors and access to their respective skill sets, will be key.
Driving Innovative Finance for Impact program develops your organizational capacity to lead innovative finance transactions in the humanitarian and development space. You will identify high-impact value opportunities for your organization and gain all the necessary tools and skills to successfully manage and execute innovative financing transactions.
You will leave the program fully equipped to work across the public and private sectors, set up and manage deal teams combined with a rich network of committed practitioners.
As humanitarian needs expand due to conflict and fragility, scaling game-changing financial models will be essential to improve people’s lives in fragile situations and bring hope to future generations.
An investment mindset and organizational capacity are the critical ingredients for international organizations to unlock the power of innovative finance in fragile settings and beyond. We are excited to help incubate this new IMD program, which will mainstream innovative finance by providing the necessary training so that senior executives can translate potential into deals and results.
Benefit from hands-on learning with a strong focus on case studies
IMD’s Driving Innovative Finance for Impact program is the only outcome-oriented training program available for senior managers and sector specialists with global and local responsibilities. It combines liVe virtual sessions, self-paced learning, expert coaching plus face-to-face learning at the IMD campus.
You will enjoy cutting-edge content and learning materials together with our network of partners including ICRC, Lombard Odier and the World Economic Forum. The program provides practical, hands-on learning with a strong focus on case studies and unique content from partners and guest speakers from the Humanitarian and Resilience Investing Initiative network.
Each module provides practical takeaways and you will finish the program with identified “deals” to be piloted or financed.
Online
Identify strategic focus areas for growth and legacy activities that could be financed differently – internal analysis and priorities.
Online
Example of topics covered:
– Established financial asset classes: bonds, notes, loans.
– Risk mitigation mechanisms: subsidies, insurance, advance market commitments, guarantees, anticipatory finance.
Online
Example of topics covered:
– Established financial asset classes: bonds, notes, loans.
– Risk mitigation mechanisms: subsidies, insurance, advance market commitments, guarantees, anticipatory finance.
On campus (2 days)
– Case practical analysis: Build the transaction.
– Launching the investment and reporting requirements.
– The road ahead – future proposals.
– Coalition building.
Meet your Program Director
Benefit from faculty expertise and research
Vanina Farber is an economist and political scientist specializing in social innovation, corporate social responsibility and sustainable finance with more than 20 years of consultancy, research and teaching experience, working with academic institutions, multinational corporations and international organizations. She is Dean of our Executive MBA and elea Professor for Social Innovation.
Farber’s research is focused on studying and fostering the application of innovative, practical, sustainable, and inclusive market-oriented approaches that aspire to change the world by eliminating the root causes of social ills. Her research focuses on social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, and impact investing, and ESG Integration/sustainable finance. She seeks to understand the social innovation environment through a holistic approach that examines both the supply (entrepreneurs and corporates) and demand side (social but also investors) of social innovation.
Innovative finance is an emerging field with tremendous promise to improve development outcomes in fragile settings and beyond. Ensuring the course’s continuous focus on real-world problem solving is our ambition. The course’s dedicated Steering Committee convenes on a regular basis to source innovations, new case applications, and otherwise relevant emerging practice and research.
Program partners
IMD network of partners includes ICRC, Lombard Odier and the World Economic Forum. This program has been incubated and co-funded by Fondation Lombard Odier and is offered at a special reduced fee.
Length: 3-week online/liVe virtual and 2 days on campus.
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