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Founder of Martha Tilaar Group Reveals the Importance of Womanpreneur Empowerment
This week, Dr. (H.C) Martha Tilaar become one of keynote speakers in Women Business Forum which is part of Indonesia Global Compact Network (IGCN) Forum 2017 series. IGCN is a local network of United Nations Global Compact with mission to be a respectable agent of change in accelerating country transformation towards the achievement of human rights, competitive labor, sustainable environment, and ethical business practices.
In forum that held at Plaza Simas Jakarta, Dr. Martha who is one of IGCN founders talk about the importance of women entrepreneur empowerment. “This women entrepreneur empowerment is necessary in order to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), one of IGCN’s purposes,” says Dr. Martha.
Not only come as speaker, along with 26 respresentative from other local companies, Dr. Martha also signed the agreement that will create cooperation between IGCN and International Trade Centre (ITC), namely ITC SheTrades Initiatives. This agreement aims to connect 1 million women entrepreneur in 2020 market by creating business environment which involving more of women’s role. This is of course, in line with one of SDGs’s agendas, Gender Equality.