Women, Governance & Trade Forum

Africa's women are governing finance ministries, heading revenue authorities, tabling billion-dollar budgets, building businesses, exporting across borders, and bringing products to market that solve real problems for real people. And yet the rooms where Africa's governance and trade agendas are set, the exhibition halls where brands are launched, and the networks where deals are made are still not fully theirs.

The Women, Governance & Trade Forum at APSCA 2026 changes that. For the first time, APSCA is creating a fully integrated public-private platform that brings together Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, Governors, and agency CEOs alongside private sector brands, women-owned enterprises, cooperatives, and innovators — in the same space, on the same days, before the same audience of 2,500+ government leaders and institutional decision-makers from 10+ African countries — advancing women's full participation in Africa's public and economic life.