The Asian Women in Co-operative Development Forum (AWCF), set up in 1990, is a resource center and advocacy body on gender and co-operatives in Asia. Its members in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam are national co-op organizations and non-government organizations (NGOs) that promote co-operatives.

As a resource center, AWCF assists and provides services to co-op organizations and social development agencies in the areas of gender mainstreaming and co-op development. As an advocacy body, it promotes gender awareness and integration of gender concerns in co-ops and social development agencies in the international, regional and local levels.

AWCF takes a two-pronged approach in its work:

1. To transform and enable co-ops to become vehicles for gender equality and gender equity

2.To enable women and men in co-ops to advocate change in and through co-ops for their benefit.