Humanitarian Finance Summit 2026

The 2026 Humanitarian Finance Summit offers a critical space for senior leaders across public, private, and philanthropic sectors to confront the widening humanitarian funding gap and reimagine financing models that can sustain humanitarian action. Jointly organised by AidEx and the Humanitarian Finance Forum, the Summit offers a platform to:

• Reflect on global shifts in risk, governance, and power, and their implications for humanitarian finance;

• Elevate practical models that show how innovative finance can deliver faster, more predictable, and more locally driven outcomes;

• Confront the political and structural barriers that impede scale, such as value-for-money metrics, risk aversion, and short-termism;

• Explore emerging tools, from pre-arranged finance and insurance-linked instruments to impact bonds and catalytic donor capital;

• Foster partnerships that move from dialogue to deployment, translating concepts into capital flow.