AidEx Nairobi 2026: Beyond Delivering “More with Less”

AidEx Nairobi takes place on 3–4 June 2026 at the Safari Park Hotel, bringing together over 500 aid and development professionals from East Africa and beyond. This year’s event is titled Beyond Delivering “More with Less” – Scaling innovative solutions, partnership approaches, and financing models to deliver sustainable humanitarian and development responses.

As the humanitarian and development “reset” impacts organisations across East Africa, organisations face growing pressure to redefine their roles, strengthen efficiency and adapt to a rapidly shifting landscape. This year’s AidEx Nairobi examines how scalable innovative and locally led solutions, evolving multi-stakeholder partnerships approaches with private, philanthropy and public sector, and new financing models can support more resilient, equitable and sustainable responses.

We will also examine practical pathways that move beyond resource consolidation and operational streamlining, and instead focus on the models reshaping humanitarian and development assistance for the future.

Sessions include:

• Keynote – Redefining the Role of Philanthropy – Reshaping humanitarian–development partnerships in a changing East African landscape
• Localisation that works – What has actually moved the needle and can it scale?
• Breaking the Endless Cycle – Is anticipatory action and disaster risk financing ready to move East Africa beyond crisis response?
• Moving Beyond Transactions – How do we fully integrate the private sector in East African humanitarian response?
• Locally Led Pooled Funds – The solution to the funding and power imbalance crisis or another model that struggles to scale?
• Integrating WASH, Food Security and Climate Resilience – Scaling innovative solutions for a rapidly changing East Africa
• Supply Chain as “the” Strategic Pillar – Reimagining your biggest asset to achieve longevity, sustainability and operational resilience
• Redefining the Role of Philanthropy – Reshaping Humanitarian–Development partnerships in a changing East African landscape
• Coopetition in East African Supply Chains – Unlocking efficiency or adding complexity?
• Economic Inclusion as Anticipatory Action – Building resilient livelihoods in fragile contexts
• Local Intermediaries – A better partnership model or replacing one bottleneck with another?
• Keynote – Reimagining health responses in fragile contexts

Join thought leaders, practitioners, and key stakeholders from the public, private and civil society sectors. The high-level audience includes UN agencies, donors, Red Cross societies, international and local NGOs, CBOs and the private sector.

Tickets are limited – register now.