Partos Innovation Impulse 2025

In this session, the main hall of the venue will transform into a stage where different business and advisory organisations can pitch their innovative solutions around innovative finance and social entrepreneurship to support new horizons and realities of INGOs. Exchange and build on these ideas during short lightning workshops from:

• StoneX: With a workshop on delivering value to your project countries with local currency payments. Some examples will be made of the benefits for NGO’s when making payments to their project countries in local currency. There will be lots of engagement with the audience with questions and room to discuss issues they may be facing. 
• Impact House – Grant Thornton: With a workshop on how to monetise your services or products through (social) entrepreneurship in your organisation.
• ImpactID:  With a workshop on thinking big, focus on small fundraising. How can we increase the cake by tapping into the gigantic potential of small donors worldwide? Think big and co-create recipes with us to bake a larger cake. 
• HVFC-International: With a workshop on turning fundraising failures into collective learning — with the HVFC Failing Forward game. In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore the biggest — and most common — fundraising mistakes using HVFC’s Failing Forward card game. Together, we’ll map out the errors NGOs make most often and, more importantly, learn from each other how to avoid them to increase our fundraising results in the future.

Too often, development and environmental projects fail to achieve their intended impact because they prioritise system-centred approaches over people-centred perspectives. Communities, especially youth and marginalised groups, are treated as reactive participants rather than co-authors of problem definition and solutions. Visibility is often symbolic, diagnostics rely on a few gatekeepers, and local practices that already work are ignored in favour of imported expertise. Siloed approaches across NGOs and communities dilute collective impact. This session explores how youth and marginalised voices can become active participants in designing solutions, rather than passive beneficiaries.

Participants will leave with a grounded understanding of what it takes to operationalise community-led climate justice beyond what is on paper and beyond institutional comfort zones.

This session, which includes a panel and round table discussions, is organised by Care Netherlands, Water Practice International and the Sio-Malaba-Malakisi (SMM) Young Water Diplomats.

How do we stick to inclusive and better communication on international solidarity, when the quest for public support and funding is high priority? Winning hearts and stirring emotions with ‘heart-breaking’ images, calling in celebrities to gain traction. Do we fall back into a white savior complex with one-side stereotypical images that urge to ‘help’? And how do we communicate ethically in a multitude of humanitarian crises, when humanitarian interventions can actually save lives? Are there alternative approaches that center community voices and equitable stories of international solidarity.

Join this session with The Expertise Centre Humanitarian Communication (HuCom) and the Partos Community of Practice on inclusive communication to unpack inclusive communication anno 2025 and beyond. In this interactive workshop we will:

• explore Inclusive Communication in 2025 and beyond
• Share and reflect together on examples of harmful images and campaigning by zooming in on examples
• Discussing dillema’s and providing alternative approaches that center community voices and equitable stories of international solidarity.
• Present our brand new website on Inclusive Communication

The Expertise Centre Humanitarian Communication (HuCom) is a non-profit organization committed to better communication on international solidarity. Over the past 3 years Partos, HuCom and our community of Practice have worked together to actively integrate inclusive and hopeful communications in campaign production, narratives, sponsoring and public engagement work.

Join us to keep this legacy alive!