GEWAL – Motsepe Foundation

2024 Gender Equality, Wellness and Leadership Summit

The annual GEWAL Summit commemorates International Women’s Day. Diverse, equality-driven stakeholders convene for discussion and solution-generation that merge international and local insights. It has grown to become a globally recognised platform of advocacy.

To build an inclusive society – where the unique needs of women, the youth and other marginalised people are recognised – the perspectives of social and economic outsiders need to be brought to the fore.

The GEWAL Summit benchmarks the gains and setbacks to gender equality; charts a way forward; and through consultation, advances individual and collective empowerment.

#InspireInclusion | Building New Sustainable and Inclusive Economies

The economies we need will be defined by knowledge industries and lifelong-learning, by tech-savviness and ecological resilience, and will have inclusion, collaboration, and an innovation-entrepreneurial orientation as core values.

Africa has a unique opportunity to move decisively towards new economies in this sense, due to factors such as a youthful population and growing economic integration. Moving to new economies is the surest way to ensue accelerate our SDG efforts, which have lagged over the last decade due to weak growth and job creation, increased fiscal vulnerability and the impact of Covid.

Whilst we transform our economies, we must also do more to protect and support the most vulnerable in society, who are often women and girls.