To address wicked problems effectively, a fundamental shift in approach and practice is required. As Lethabo Rampya from Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropies reflects, “We know that collaboration gets you further, and quicker, and we’re learning that it is disingenuous to fund collaboration and then stand outside of it. We have to be in it.” True collaboration means active participation from all stakeholders, including funders, who must be as engaged in the process as the implementing partners. Without this involvement, collaboration risks becoming tokenistic, failing to address the core of these wicked problems.