comprising board chairs and chief executive officers ceos from a selection of private and multinational companies it promotes the goal of per cent women on private sector boards finally mwa has worked with ngos such as global women or diversity new zealand to increase leadership and governance capacity across a range of different industries in new zealand instead of only addressing the deficiencies of women candidates mwa focuses on broader societal and organisational change to foster encouraging environments for women to be able to realise these leadership goals mechanisms such as the new zealand census of womens participation or mwa s annual gender stocktake are used to collect statistical data new initiatives such as the nzx diversity listing rule will be used to monitor private sector progress finally commissioned research and additional publications including from ngos and other sources are used to bolster the evidence base on women s leadership