GICHD Outlook Report 2025

FINANCIAL

The financial pillar provides the Centre with strategic guidelines to ensure an adequate level of resources to deliver impact in line with the GICHD Strategy and to develop the processes and tools that allow these resources to be managed efficiently. The pillar’s action plan identifies four outcomes related to funding, budgeting, cost efficiency and financial resilience.

In 2025 the GICHD will continue to strive to increase the level of core and flexible funding that allows financial resilience to be maintained across its five outcomes, and implement an overhead cost recovery. It will also aim to reach 100% expenditure burn rate each year. Against the ongoing economic uncertainty—including inflationary and liquidity pressures— the aim of the Centre will be to maintain appropriate levels of reserves and liquidity. To achieve this, the cash flow management solutions—introduced in 2023—will be complemented with a cash flow management tool to improve the Centre’s payment cycle and to optimize the use of foreign currency funds. As a learning organization, the

GICHD will keep improving its planning and budgeting, as well as increase performance in implementing its monthly closure, forecasting and salary allocation processes. Finally, the GICHD will continue collaborating with the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance, and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy to benefit from the economies of scale achievable through sharing suppliers, in a process labelled by the three Centres as “mutualization”. The GICHD became a more active member of the three Centres’ information services forum in 2023 and will continue exploring digital solutions and leveraging technology to optimize resources.

INSTITUTIONAL

The institutional pillar helps the Centre to adapt its processes and to ensure they remain aligned with its core values and working principles. In 2025, the Centre will keep modernizing its internal practices to create a thriving, efficient and effective organization that fully harnesses the potential of its people. Firstly, the GICHD recognizes the importance of cultivating a learning culture. In 2025, the Centre will maintain its focus on offering dedicated training for

leadership roles to enhance their skills, complemented by a 360-degree feedback exercise. Secondly, the Centre will remain committed to continuously improving internal processes by ensuring that policies and systems are aligned with the sector’s best practices. To this end, throughout 2025, the Centre will consolidate its internal onboarding process and learning activities under a new human resource information system. Additionally, the Centre recognizes the importance of having a well-trained crisis

management team in place. Therefore, our priority will continue to be acting proactively and swiftly when risks are identified. Finally, our environmental commitment remains firm. In early 2025, we will partner with an organization dedicated to reducing carbon footprint. The year 2025 will be a time of consolidation, during which we will strive to enhance the Centre’s operations and foster a strong culture rooted in accountability, trust, inclusion, respect, innovation, and learning.

GICHD OUTLOOK REPORT 2025