For 49 years, the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) has set the global agenda for gender equity, inclusion, and shared prosperity with action-oriented research and solutions. Our global experts generate groundbreaking insights and develop gender transformative strategies on topics like economic opportunity and security, health and reproductive rights, gender norms, and climate action.

Our Approach

We are a decentralized global network made up of three regional entities—ICRW-Africa, ICRW-Americas, and ICRW-Asia—each operating autonomously under its own executive director, with its own independent board, and the ability to set priorities rooted in its own context.

With a deep regional presence and a globally connected community of researchers and research users, we are developing these entities to be world-class institutions that accelerate innovation to achieve gender equality.

Characterized by their trusted connection to the communities where they operate, our regional entities demonstrate that both proximity and empiricism are critical to shaping global policy. United by our common vision, mission, values, and brand, we partner to foster learning, knowledge-sharing, and collaboration to enhance impact.

We balance context-specificity at the regional level with shared purpose at the global level, strengthening local ownership, enhancing agility, nurturing the next generation of researchers, activists, and practitioners, and delivering lasting change for communities everywhere.