The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) is an international membership organization connecting, informing and mobilizing people and organizations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights. AWID's goal is to cause policy, institutional and individual change that will improve the lives of women and girls everywhere. We do this by facilitating ongoing debates on fundamental and provocative issues as well as by building the individual and organizational capacities of those working for women's empowerment and social justice. AWID members are researchers, academics, students, educators, activists, business people, policy-makers, development practitioners, funders, and more. The AWID international forum, occurring every three years, is AWID's flagship event. This event brings together diverse stakeholders from all disciplines and all ages in the gender and development and women's human rights communities.