- Date: January 25, 2020
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“As our 2019 Advocacy Award winner, Manizha Wafeq has demonstrated the true meaning of this award by educating and impacting hundreds of Afghan women entrepreneurs through her 12 years of work with PEACE THROUGH BUSINESS and for the past 16 years as an advocate for women’s empowerment and gender equality in Afghanistan.” she said. “Her persistent and influential lobbying skills resulted in the first Afghan Women’s Chamber of Commerce, a 5 percent preference clause for women-owned businesses in national procurement, and a 15-25 percent allocation of industrial park space for small, medium and women-owned businesses in Afghanistan. Manizha is one of her country’s strongest advocates for women in business and her work has been life-changing,” Smiley said.
https://enterprisingwomen.com/the-connector/phyllis-newhouse-inducted-into-the-enterprising-women-hall-of-fame-manizha-wafeq-is-bestowed-the-2019-enterprising-women-advocacy-award