There were 33 Commonwealth and regional meetings in the 2015-2017 period. The voices of our countries, both large and small, were heard in these high-level forums; none more so than at our 2017 Finance Ministers Meeting in Washington DC. There, in a forceful intervention, the Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, Allen Chastanet, called for funding rules to be changed. The impact of climate change on small island developing states (SIDS) needed urgent attention, he argued. The rules must change so that those countries could access funds more quickly.