President Cyril Ramaphosa launched the Women Economic Assembly (WECONA) as a platform to action an enabling procurement environment for women-owned businesses by activating public & private sector supply value chains for a coherent & collaborative approach to achieving women’s economic empowerment. WECONA is a mandate emerging from the National Strategic Plan on Gender-based Violence and Femicide. Since its launch in October 2021, WECONA has sought to engage industry leaders to set gender transformation targets in each industry and establish game-changing interventions that increase procurement from women-owned businesses.
Date
20220805
Start Time
08:30:00
(GMT+02:00) SAST
End Time
16:30:00
(GMT+02:00) SAST
Location
Virtual
Host
President Cyril Ramaphosa
