Ministers need to think more radically to solve urgent global challenges

"The Government's efforts to unlock new money for urgent global challenges is welcome - we now need to work together to make sure that money reaches the women who understand their communities and can create sustainable change.

"Ministers are right to raise the alarm about the coming food crisis, but they need to think more radically. Like so many global challenges, food insecurity is a deeply gendered crisis: CARE's work has consistently found that countries with higher gender inequality face worse hunger and safety situations, while in moments of crisis women still eat last and least. Yet the solutions raised so far risk repeating failures of the past by continuing to overlook the expertise of women's rights organisations in building community resilience and responding to emergencies.

"After promises that gender equality would run throughout this Conference and FCDO's new approach to partnerships, women's rights organisations shouldn't be consigned to the margins.

"This conference is rightly looking at different ways to work together to drive peace, resilience and justice on a global scale. But without the right voices in the room, the billions raised could struggle to deliver the transformative change we need. There must be room in the tent to both raise finances at scale while also putting the experiences and expertise of women at the centre of solutions that last."