AWID stands for a progressive intersectional feminism and has a broad and inclusive human rights focus, working for marginalized genders and other groups.

[2] AWID is funded by UN Women, various government development agencies and a number of progressive donors, including Open Society Foundations, MacKenzie Scott and the Sigrid Rausing Trust.

[3] A dynamic network of women and men around the world, AWID members are researchers, academics, students, educators, activists, business people, policy-makers, development practitioners, funders, and more.

[3] Since 2016 the organization has been led by Hakima Abbas[5][6] and Cindy Clark[7] as Co-Executive Directors, with American feminist author Charlotte Bunch joining as board president.

In that, initial policies to support feminist and gender justice organizations were also recommended to influence relevant decision-making and to involve policy-makers, not limited to mentioning potentially complement bodies as well as those existing engagement and positions.