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WEEGS Closing Remarks: Women’s Economic

Empowerment Not an Open-Ended Journey
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Published December 6th, 2017 - 12:00 GMT Press Release
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The first Women’s Economic Empowerment Global Summit (WEEGS 2017) signaled the implementation
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Economic Empowerment, which was to address the issue of women’s economic empowerment by
working directly with female entrepreneurs with a specific focus on building the bridge between them and
the private sector, bringing stakeholders together and building partnerships between them.
Gender-responsive procurement of goods and services by increasing the number of products procured
from women owned and run enterprises, and making it a mainstream trade practice instead of an
exception, was one of the summits key focus areas, as per the UN Report’s recommendations. Currently, FROM AROUND THE WEB
only 1 percent of goods procured globally fall in this category.
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