All In: Global Leaders For Ending Gender-Based Violence were proudly in attendance at Women Deliver 2026. Hosted for the first time in the Oceanic Pacific, some 6000 delegates gathered together from around the world to shape a gender-equal future for all.
On Sunday, at the pre-conference strategy panel ‘Resourcing a Global Movement,’ our co-chair Tarana Burke spoke about the need for collective action to accelerate change: ‘Together, we can scale our resources - and our impact.’ Dr. Emma Fulu, panellist and our co-CEO, elaborated: ‘To implement solutions at scale, we need leaders across governments, tech, sports, culture, finance and beyond - to play a role. To be all in on solving this with us.’
On Monday, All In Global Leaders shared an open letter urging immediate action to end gender-based violence, alongside Women Deliver. The letter was picked up by AAP and covered widely in the news, with Geeta Rao Rupta’s excellent opinion piece generating additional coverage.
On Tuesday, All In brought together a roundtable of leaders in finance and philanthropy to unpack how innovative financing strengthens the accountability and resourcing needed to prevent gender-based violence. Opening speaker and All In Global Leader Geeta Rao Gupta, said: ‘Decades of evidence show that gender-based violence is solvable - and can reduce violence by up to half. The constraint is not a lack of solutions - it’s a lack of political will and resourcing.’ John Hartman, CEO at Minderoo Foundation, emphasised the need to reframe inaction in a language that investors understood best: numbers. ‘We need to frame the true cost on society to make GBV a priority. In Australia alone, there are an estimated $26 billion dollars of lost productivity and health impacts.’
Greater investment into GBV prevention starts by influencing how mainstream investment decisions are made by wealth advisors. As Swatee Deepak from the London School of Economics and Political Science pointed out: ‘The challenge is not a lack of capital: the Great Wealth Transfer will peak in 2045, with US $74 trillion transferring into the hands of heirs. Survivors are investors too. That’s 70% of intergenerational wealth, transferring into the hands of women, who think of their wealth investment with a different lens.’
Joy Anderson, Founder of Criterion Institute reiterated the material risks of funds that don’t embed GBV prevention into their investment strategy: ‘For investors, it creates 4 areas of risk: operational, reputational, regulatory and political.’ Cat Fay, from Perpetual Limited urged Boards to reconsider ‘whether their investments are an appropriate reflection of values.’ All In leader Victor Madrigal-Borloz closed by saying: ‘Investment into the gender movement is about more than just gender - it’s about dismantling symmetries of power.’
On Wednesday night, alongside Equality Now, Equimundo, Movember and Minderoo Foundation, All In hosted ‘Stories That Shift Power & Culture.’ Moderated by Dr. Emma Fulu, speakers reaffirmed the need to engage leaders with stories that mobilise the will - and the resources - to accelerate prevention. As John Hartman said, ‘Stories are how we bury the broccoli.’ Sarah Sternberg from Movember posed the challenge: ‘How can we change the narratives that men see online in order to change how they see themselves, and create healthier masculinity?’ Gary Barker, CEO of Equimundo, elaborated: ‘Stories of care - of men being caring humans - are what activate the best of manhood.’ And Mona Sinha from Equality Now left the audience with one final thought: ‘Stories are how we create change that’s designed, not just left to chance.’ We closed the session with a demonstration of the power of storytelling, by sharing our launch film.
Now that Women Deliver has wrapped, and our 6000 new friends and allies are back home, we’ve had a moment to reflect on what was an incredibly inspiring week. Every event and every delegate reaffirmed the power of collective action at scale. As Geeta Rao Gupta put it: ‘Women deliver all the time. Now, more than ever, leaders across all sectors and every region of the globe, must go all in with us - to deliver on the system-wide action that can solve gender-based violence.’