International
Women's Think Tank
Policy Areas
IWTT's policies work to find strategic insights and solutions to issues related to women and girls. Programs and initiatives are implemented through the International Women's Center and are designed to have broad outreach.
Child Well-Being
IWTT recognizes child wellbeing as essential social infrastructure for women’s empowerment. When children are safe, healthy, educated, and supported, women and families are better positioned to participate fully in economic, civic, social, and leadership life.
Women’s Empowerment remains central to IWTT’s mission. However, true empowerment cannot be limited to forums, training programs, or awareness-building alone. It must also address the systems that shape women’s daily realities, including childcare, education, family stability, health, safety, economic opportunity, and community support.
IWTT is committed to advancing research, partnerships, leadership development, and community-centered strategies that strengthen women, girls, children, and families. By connecting women’s empowerment with child and family wellbeing, IWTT moves beyond conversation toward practical solutions, measurable impact, and long-term systems change.
Child wellbeing is not only a family concern. It is a global development priority and a shared responsibility. When children thrive, families become stronger. When families are stronger, women are better equipped to lead, build, work, advocate, innovate, and shape the future.
Through this work, IWTT seeks to help build resilient communities, expand opportunity, and position women and girls as powerful contributors to a more equitable, prosperous, and sustainable world.
Announcement: IWTT has pioneered the Sister School collaboration between Baltimore, Maryland based Western High School, the oldest all girls public high school in the USA and the Sister School Global Initiative of Lagos, Nigeria. The initial African school to begin this collaboration with Western is the Federal Government Girls College, Shagamu. The purpose of the collaboration is to prepare young women for future global leadership roles by expanding their understanding of diverse world cultures.
Child Well-Being strengthens the empowerment of women and their families.
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Education
IWTT’s Education, Leadership, and Training Platform equips women and girls with the knowledge, confidence, strategic tools, and leadership capacity needed to move from participation to influence.
Through quarterly empowerment trainings, IWTT supports the whole woman professionally, intellectually, economically, civically, socially, and personally. These trainings bring together sector leaders, educators, entrepreneurs, policy voices, and community advocates to share practical insight, proven strategies, and real-world guidance.
As women lead in their communities and contribute to progress in science, the arts, business, governance, technology, and social innovation, IWTT remains committed to building a leadership development pathway that strengthens women’s voices, expands opportunity, and prepares them to become agents of change.
Through education, leadership development, and cross-sector collaboration, IWTT advances women’s empowerment beyond inspiration toward skill-building, influence, measurable impact, and lasting community transformation.
Technology
IWTT recognizes technology as a critical pathway to women’s empowerment, economic mobility, and global leadership. Supporting women and girls in STEM, artificial intelligence, and emerging digital systems is essential to ensuring they are not merely consumers of technology, but creators, innovators, researchers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and decision-makers shaping the future.
As artificial intelligence transforms education, work, business, healthcare, governance, and communication, women and girls must be equipped with the knowledge, confidence, and ethical awareness to use these tools responsibly and lead in the systems they influence. AI literacy is now a core leadership skill, necessary for innovation, problem-solving, entrepreneurship, and participation in the modern economy.
IWTT also recognizes the growing importance of blockchain and the tokenization of real-world assets — the digital representation of ownership, value, and assets such as property, commodities, intellectual property, and financial instruments. As these technologies reshape commerce, investment, ownership, and access to capital, women must have the literacy and strategic understanding needed to participate responsibly, protect their interests, and help shape inclusive financial systems.
Through its focus on STEM education, AI literacy, digital finance awareness, innovation, and technology leadership, IWTT prepares women and girls to understand, question, build, govern, and lead within the systems transforming the world. Expanding access to these fields is not only a matter of equity; it is essential to creating stronger economies, more inclusive innovation, and a future where women help define the rules, tools, and opportunities of the digital age.
Economic Development
IWTT advances women’s economic empowerment by helping women access the knowledge, tools, networks, capital-readiness, and market opportunities needed to build strong enterprises and participate fully in economic life.
Women’s economic participation is essential to inclusive and sustainable development. When women have greater access to business education, financial literacy, entrepreneurship support, technology, ownership opportunities, and pathways to markets, families become stronger, communities become more resilient, and economies become more productive.
Women entrepreneurs play a vital role across industry, agriculture, technology, services, and the creative economy. Their businesses generate income, create jobs, expand innovation, strengthen local markets, and contribute to long-term community growth.
IWTT’s Entrepreneurial and Economic Development Program equips aspiring and existing women entrepreneurs with practical guidance, strategic training, mentorship, business-development resources, and economic leadership support. By strengthening women’s ability to launch, grow, and sustain enterprises, IWTT helps move economic empowerment beyond aspiration and toward measurable opportunity, inclusive growth, and lasting impact.
Agriculture Research & Development
IWTT recognizes agriculture as a vital driver of food security, climate resilience, economic development, public health, and sustainable wealth creation. As global food systems face increasing pressure from climate change, resource scarcity, population growth, and market instability, agricultural research has become essential to building stronger, smarter, and more resilient communities.
Through science, technology, data, and innovation, agricultural research helps advance modern farming practices, improve soil and water management, strengthen food quality, increase productivity, and support climate-smart solutions. These tools are critical to helping farmers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and communities adapt to changing conditions while protecting the environment and expanding economic opportunity.
IWTT positions Women in Agriculture as essential leaders in the future of food systems. Women serve as producers, researchers, agribusiness owners, innovators, land stewards, educators, and community builders. Yet their contributions are often underrecognized and under-resourced. Strengthening women’s access to agricultural knowledge, technology, capital, markets, and leadership opportunities is critical to advancing food security, economic mobility, and sustainable development.
Through its focus on agriculture research, innovation, entrepreneurship, and women’s leadership, IWTT seeks to elevate agriculture as a pathway to resilience, health, ownership, and generational prosperity. By supporting women in this field, IWTT helps cultivate stronger food systems, stronger economies, and a more sustainable future.
