Thank you for the question.
There are a couple of things.
One is that the way we spend our money is just as important as how much we spend. The way we spend money needs to be in line with the feminist international assistance policy. We can't support feminist programming in ways that are very rigid, that transfer risk onto local partners, that are compliance-obsessed or that are inflexible.
There is a lot that can be done with the current budget to move our international aid funding to ways that are more flexible and that not only allow organizations to adapt to changing contexts, but enable organizations to adapt from long-term development programs to emergency response when there are humanitarian disasters.