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.
What this stream covers.
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.
- Direct access to public-sector buyers and private-sector partners in one room
- Exhibition and market exposure for women-owned brands and cooperatives
- A cross-border network of 2,500+ government and institutional decision-makers
A fully integrated public-private platform — ministerial dialogue, an exhibition floor for women-owned brands, and structured deal-making sessions.
Women ministers, permanent secretaries, governors and agency CEOs, alongside women-owned enterprises, cooperatives and innovators.
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Speakers for the Women, Governance & Trade Forum will be announced as APSCA 2026 approaches.
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