Associated Country Women of the World

Organization's name: Associated Country Women of the World
Organization's acronym: ACWW
Headquarters address  
Address: A04 Parkhall, 40 Martell Road
London
SE21 8EN
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Phone: 44 (0) 20-7799-3875
Fax: 44 (0) 20-7340-9950
Email: nick@acww.org.uk
Web site: www.acww.org.uk

Organization type: Non-governmental organization
Languages::
  • English

Contacts & Participation:

First Name:

Last Name:

Contact Type:

Patricia Collins Designation , Head of Organization
Monica TUPAY
Kerry Maw-Smith Others
Joanna Koch Others
Safia Roble Others
Magdalena de Kock Others
Mary Kidd Others
Jimi Tamang Lama
Gertraud Pichler Others
Gia Virginia Gaspard Taylor
Tricia Patrice
Chaiskran Hiranpruk Others
Asha Angela Pugh
Irene Miguel
Donna Jebb
Patricia Collins Designation , Head of Organization
Grace Staples Designation
Patricia Collins Others , Advancement of Women
Madonna Simone Maria Roudett
Patricia Collins Others , Advancement of Women
Sherri Culver Designation
Elizabeth Ann Kelly Designation
Patricia Altshuler Others
Hemamali Anushka Wirasinha Others
Roma Patten
Mary Kidd Others
Nicholas Newland Public Administration , Social Development , Designation , Committee on NGOs Representative , Advancement of Women , Re-classification , Quadrennial Report , Sustainable Development (primary)
Irene Miguel
Magdalena de Kock Others
Sandip Verma Designation
FADZILAH BINTI MUHAMMAD ALI
Henrietta Schoeman Others
HRH Princess Azizah Iskandar of Pahang
Claire Mahon Designation
Ruth Shanks Others
Sandip Verma Designation
Nicholas Newland Public Administration , Social Development , Designation , Committee on NGOs Representative , Advancement of Women , Re-classification , Quadrennial Report , Conference Focal Point , Sustainable Development (primary)
Magdalena de Kock Advancement of Women
Patricia Collins Designation , Head of Organization
Suzanne Garrett
Tiemtip Kitibut Others
Emma Schaefer Designation
Marie Kenny Designation
Fadzilah Muhammad Ali
Irene Miguel
Valerie Stevens
Mary Kidd Others
Maureen Allen
UMA GHIMIRE
Hamimah binti A. Karim
Gerd Louise Myhre Molvig
Intan Amalina Mohd. Sarit
Meg Berruex-Bryant Others
Audrey Goh Others
Audrey Koina
Jo Almond Others
Sue GREEN
Tengku Aishah Ahmad Shah Others
Nicholas Newland Advancement of Women , Conference Focal Point
Anna Gibbon Others
Gopal Ghimire
Noela MacLeod
Sharon Hatten Others
Nicholas Newland Public Administration , Social Development , Designation , Committee on NGOs Representative , Advancement of Women , Re-classification , Quadrennial Report , Sustainable Development (primary)
Susan WINSTON
Jennifer Sellers Designation
Ian McConchie Others
DILEAN EVELYN AGATHA SMITH- RICHARDS
Irene Miguel
Cynthia de Windt Others
Gertraud Pichler Others
Ursula Dumpangol (GOH)
Ruth Shanks Others
Patricia Altshuler Others
Ruth Shanks Others
Hemamali Anushka Wirasinha Others
Sharon Hatten Others
Ingunn Birkeland
Meg Berruex-Bryant Others
Azizah of Pahang Others
Joanna Koch Others
Magdalena de Kock Head of Organization
Claire Mahon Designation
Ruth Shanks Others
Helen Christie
Magdalena de Kock Others
Alison Burnett Others

Activities

Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
Economic and Social:
  • Agriculture
  • Education
  • Family
  • Food
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Water
  • Women

Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
  • Capacity building
  • Education and training of women
  • Human rights of women
  • The girl child
  • Violence against women
  • Women and armed conflict
  • Women and the economy
  • Women and the environment
  • Women and the media
  • Women and the media

Social Development:
  • Poverty

Sustainable Development:
  • Agriculture
  • Education
  • Health
  • Rural Development
  • Sanitation
Geographic scope: International
Country of activity:
  • India
  • Philippines
  • Germany
  • Spain
  • New Zealand
  • Switzerland
  • Guyana
  • Cameroon
  • Latvia
  • South Africa
  • Iceland
  • Bulgaria
  • Indonesia
  • United States of America
  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Gambia
  • Tuvalu
  • Sierra Leone
  • Jamaica
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Solomon Islands
  • Bangladesh
  • Pakistan
  • Lesotho
  • Eswatini
  • Malaysia
  • Tonga
  • Belarus
  • Kiribati
  • Estonia
  • Kenya
  • Denmark
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Romania
  • Canada
  • Sri Lanka
  • Finland
  • Slovenia
  • Colombia
  • Namibia
  • Zambia
  • Botswana
  • China
  • Czechia
  • Norway
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Ghana
  • Ireland
  • Sweden
  • Uganda
  • Brazil
  • Australia
  • Netherlands
  • Zimbabwe
  • Greece
Millennium Development Goals:
  • Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
  • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  • Achieve universal primary education
  • Promote gender equality and empower women
  • Reduce child mortality
  • Improve maternal health
  • Ensure environmental sustainability
  • Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:
Year established (YYYY): 1933
Year of registration (YYYY): 1947
Organizational structure: Triennial Conference: current officers and voting delegates from member societies elect incoming officers and specified committee chairmen; Board of Trustees responsible for management; Executive Committee administers the organisation's affairs and comprises World President, Deputy President, Secretary and Treasurer; six Specified Committees address Agriculture, Finance, Projects, Promotion & Publications, Triennial Conference and United Nations
Number and type of members: at 30 September 2010 - 475 member societies and 1,333 individual members. Member Societies comprise women's organisations whose constitutions and methods of work are in harmony with the objectives, activities and policy of ACWW.
Affiliation with NGO networks: CONGO, NGO Committee on the Status of Women New York Vienna, NGO Committee on UNICEF & Working Group on Girls New York, NGO Committee on UNIFEM New York, NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child Geneva, NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee Paris,
Funding structure:
  • Membership fees or dues
  • Donations and grants from domestic sources

Additional Information

Main Objective

Advancement of Women
Username: un@acww.org.uk