IFBPW actively initiates and promotes:

• legislative action to press governments for the ratification of the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW);
• projects and programmes designed to assist women by providing credit facilities, training and employment schemes;
• equal opportunities in the financial and newly developing fields of work.

• regional contacts between women of similar culture and language;
• twinning links between BPW Clubs worldwide;
• a strong network structure among the membership.

• committees at international level in a number of areas, including Agriculture, Business, Training & Technology, Development, Training and Employment, Health and Young Career Women;
• a clearing house for information on equal opportunities for women and men;
• opportunities for women for Leadership Experience, Career Development, Personal Improvement, Community Consciousness, International Understanding and other experiences to widen their interests and contacts.

IFBPW is actively involved in the INSTRAW Women's Training Centre, UNIFEM, Project 5-0 International, the ILO Training Centre, Women's World Banking and over 50 other on-going projects around the world.