It also offers us the opportunity to review the various pledges made at the summit and to recommend concrete actions for the way forward. Ladies and Gentlemen, women form a big proportion of the population and command a sizeable role in our societies’ socio-economic activities and are therefore important economic and social change agents.
In Africa, women constitute more than half of the population and form the majority of our labour force, especially in agricultural activities and household welfare, which remain the backbone of our economies. A large number of them also run micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) that constitute a significant share of economic activity in our economies.