Aid funders are spending on evidence that leaves women out, CARE argues
Humanitarian funders are allocating money on evidence that omits women, according to Kalkidan Lakew Yihun and Jenny Conrad of CARE, writing in Alliance Magazine in October 2026. In a 2022 drought response in Somaliland, half of households headed by men received assistance against one in four led by women. CARE's Women Respond initiative surveys women directly, and its latest round found 65 percent naming food insecurity their top crisis.
In Omugo refugee settlement in Uganda, planners placed food distribution ten kilometres from where women were staying, on a route that exposed them to repeated violence, because women had no input. The decision came from people reading household averages, not from the people carrying the risk. The authors warn that AI trained on the same data will repeat that blind spot at scale.
Source: Alliance Magazine · October 5, 2026