2025 Geneva Forum: Dry Run of the AGILE Tool
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The Geneva Forum, Tuesday December 9, 2025 - In the frame of the International Annual Conference on Impact Finance. is organizing, during the International Annual Conference on Impact Finance of the Geneva Forum, a Geneva Foundation for the Future of its - tool – a shared and evolving framework to align finance, philanthropy, and impact projects.
Dry Run
The AGILE tool is designed as a AGILE and allows for:
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Uses of the AGILE Tool
of impact projects (eligibility filters, first intention criteria),
- simplified transversal methodological benchmark (scorecards and red flags),
- Identification (dashboards, dynamic indicators),
- Initial evaluation (mentoring by experts and peers),
- Monitoring and follow-up (replication, duplication, growth plans),
- Support and coaching (societal ROI, systemic impact, shared lessons)...
Acceleration and scaling up
AGILE simplifies daily work and harmonizes the main taxonomies and existing frameworks:
- Final evaluation & assessment (Environmental – Social – Governance),
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Reference criteria of impact finance integrated
(United Nations Sustainable Development Goals),
- ESG and public frameworks,
- International standards: SDG, EU Green Taxonomy, OECD-DAC...
- Proprietary standards.
Its innovation, the result of 3 years of intersectoral collaborative work, is based on 5 families of criteria:
- IRIS+ (values, SDGs, ESG, local realities)
- ISO26000 (participation, transparency, accountability)
- Alignment (deep, systemic, measurable impact)
- Governance (mobilization, co-creation, sustainability)
- Intention (resource use, viability, scalability)
Leadership
Efficiency
Any actor can bring their project, according to their field:
- Impact project holder
- Foundation / philanthropy
- Family office
- Impact investment fund
- Bank / financial institution
- Incubator / impact platform
- Academic (university, MBA, laboratory)
- Public institution
- NGO / local association
- Blended finance catalyst
These participants will benefit directly from
You can access two levels of participation in the Dry Run
on how to use the simple AGILE tool to position and evaluate their project.
Renseignements and Registration.
Level 1 – Simple AGILE tool
Participants will be able to present to the audience a methodological insights and showcase their project.
All types and stages of projects are eligible:
- Level 2 – Pitch of projects evaluated with AGILE (50–500k€),
- pitch structured around the AGILE criteria (500k–10M€),
- Small pilot projects / local innovations (above 10M€),
- Projects Intermediate projects / scalable initiatives, Large systemic or institutional projects, in seed stage or in growth.
Each pitch will be analyzed using the AGILE grid, allowing for collective feedback and a concrete illustration of its role as a in scaling up for impact finance.
Submit here your project for an AGILE pitch.
This Dry Run marks a key step in the collaborative development of the infrastructure tool, now capable of becoming the transversal benchmark between philanthropists, investors, public institutions, and project holders, to re-enchant finance and accelerate the transition toward a regenerative economy.


