If we’re truly celebrating legacy, let’s make the next chapter one that communities would choose for themselves. #Pathway2Transformation

Learn more about the #FutureOfAid here: www.iaran.org/future-of-aid

Real inclusion means investing in communities as co-architects, not end-users—and reimagining legitimacy, accountability, and effectiveness for a volatile world.

These priorities land right alongside #FutureofAid 2040’s call to redesign the aid system playbook: transform financing, put local leadership at the centre, and build resilience that can withstand system shocks.

This year’s high-level UN commemorations aren’t just about retrospection, but about strengthening the #PactForTheFuture to have “peace, development and human rights.”

We look forward to continuing this important conversation with our partners in India and beyond. We are deeply grateful to our co-hosts, panellists, and all participants for their insights and engagement in this event.

Visit: www.iaran.org/future-of-aid

The launch confirmed that the Future of Aid 2040 is not about prediction, but about co-creation. Together, we are building pathways toward decentralized, community-driven, and resilient humanitarian systems.

🔹 From response to resilience. Aid must move beyond late crisis response to anticipatory action, preparedness, and resilience-building. Scenario thinking, adaptive tools, and innovative funding models — including diaspora and homegrown resources — will be critical in this transition.

🔹 Communities must be at the center. Speakers highlighted the shift from needs to demands, where affected people define their own priorities and exercise agency. True transformation requires recognizing diversity within communities and ensuring inclusive representation.

🔹 India’s leadership role is pivotal. No longer only seen as a recipient, India is increasingly a giver of aid, shaping inclusive, regionally grounded humanitarian models. With its geopolitical weight and diverse civil society, India is central to any global conversation on transforming aid.

Three key takeaways emerged from the discussion:

- India’s leadership role is pivotal
- Communities must be at the center.
- From response to resilience

With leading voices from government, civil society & global aid networks in the room, this launch brings together the different partners needed to chart real transformation.

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🗓️ Sept–Dec 2025

🌍 New Delhi, Berlin, Bogotá, Melbourne, Mexico City, Paris, Rome & Jakarta.

Join the movement. Let’s transform aid together.

#Pathways2Transformation #FutureOfAid2040

Built by and for the aid system, including local actors, youth voices, and global foresight contributors.
Because no single perspective can imagine the future alone.

🔗 Read the report: iaran.org/future-of-aid
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This report does not offer predictions, but rather provocations based on a real, measured assessment of possibilities. It is a strategic tool to:

⚠️ Surface uncertainty
🌀 Challenge assumptions
🌱 Inspire transformation

🧠 What’s inside this report?

✅ Four distinct future scenarios
✅ Analysis of the current aid system
✅ A new typology of crisis
✅ Global drivers of change
✅ Human stories of crises affected people 2040
✅ A framework to think, plan, and act differently

This report is the result of the exploration phase of the Future of Aid 2040: Pathways to Transformation project - led by IARAN and CHL, with strong contributions from local and Global South participants.