CAWTAR’s Mission:

• To generate knowledge and enhance the capacity of Arab institutions to use this knowledge in ways that enable Arab women to become fully empowered and to exercise their rights to share in the development of their communities. 

CAWTAR’s Objectives:

• Women’s Rights
• Women’s empowerment
  

 To achieve these objectives, CAWTAR promotes the capacity of Arab governance systems to support women’s rights and of Arab economic systems to fully integrate women and improve their status.

The Center undertakes its multi-faceted objectives through five main programs:

Research

Training

Networking and Partnerships

The Media and Communication

Documentation and Databases