The way Canada basically funds programming where there's humanitarian development needs a major shift and rethink. It's not only about carving out exceptions in certain conflict situations. It's that our aid is so compartmentalized.
I'll give you one example. We've received money from the Canadian government to support building the capacity of women's rights organizations in Pakistan. It's fantastic and much-needed work, but then we haven't had the flexibility to use those funds to support those same women's rights organizations to respond to the flooding in Pakistan that happened last fall. It's to be able to shift and say we're building up capacity, but then capacity is built and we can't use the same funds when circumstances change. This goes for humanitarian response for conflict.
It's rethinking the dividing lines between peacebuilding funds, humanitarian response funds, long-term development funding and democratic institution strengthening. The world doesn't work in those boxes. It certainly never has, but definitely doesn't now. It's rethinking channels of funding that allow for adaptive programming.