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ANWBN Brings To Front Burner Challenges Faced By Nigerian Women In Business

The Association of Nigerian Women Business Network (ANWBN), a coalition of over 50 different women associations focused on business and career development of its members will be hosting the first ever Nigerian Women Business Virtual Summit (NWBS 2000).

ANWBN serves as the apex (private sector) body committed to mitigating the challenges faced by women pursuing business and career growth and has a combined membership of over four million (4,000,000) women entrepreneurs.

In 2016, ANWBN published the first edition of the Women National Business Agenda (WNBA), a vital tool that served to identify laws and regulations that hinder business activity of women and also offer concrete recommendations and reforms to remove these barriers and improve the business climate.

Since the initial study, several changes have taken place within the women business community as well as the socio-economic and socio-political environments across Nigeria.

Furthermore, the onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the unprecedented global response it necessitated has required further revision of the WNBA.

The Nigerian Women Business Summit (NWBS) 2020, a three-day virtual event that will hold from 29th September – 1st October 2020 will serve as a platform to launch the updated Women National Business Agenda and also galvanize action towards addressing the five (5) identified key challenges faced by women who do business in Nigeria.

Renowned international and national speakers/panelists drawn from the public and private sector as well as civil society, will converge to discuss and proffer solutions to issues like lack of access to finance, gender inequality, insecurity, poor infrastructure and inadequate power. Over 30,000 guests are expected to attend.

As a network, the coalition work on total empowerment for women, building leadership skills, access to credit, patronage of Made in Nigeria Goods as well as creating a gender friendly environment for women.

The coalition is dedicated to the economic and socio-political development of Nigeria through a formalized system of public-private dialogue among the three tiers of government, and other relevant stakeholders.