There is a significant lack of information and data about rural communities. In particular, there's a real lack of difference between the information on rural, rural remote, and remote. They're not well defined in the data. There's also a lack of understanding about urban communities and rural challenges, because those are quite unique.
There's an inability to publicly access gendered federal data on funding. That impacts organizations that are looking to apply for funding opportunities but don't have those quantitative statistics that can help inform and strengthen funding applications. That has proven to be quite a barrier for rural organizations, in particular rural organizations supporting women's services.
I don't want to take up everyone's time here, but there's one other piece I would like to add. There's really not a lot of data on indigenous peoples, particularly recently formed bands. That has also been an incredible barrier for funding opportunities in particular.