Among many others, the core activities of ICWA include;

• Promotion of micro and small scale enterprises by focusing on;
• Training of women in specific skills, consultancy, in business management.
• Loan / credit policies planning for finanacial self sufficiency.
• Introduction of record-keeping and simple bookkeeping system for small businesses.
• Source of fund.
• Appraisal of credit facilities available to women entrepreneurs.
• Enhancing the system of gathering, storing and utilization of information on women entrepreneurship.
• Promoting the sustenance of cooperatives base on local resources.
• Identifying appropriate agricultural technologies for women entrepreneurs to facilitate food production, processing and storage.
• Raising awareness and imparting business skills to women, men and youths to enable them to undertake income-generating activities.
• Providing avenue for the acquisition of the necessary education, economic and entrepreneurial skills, knowledge, and dispositions relevant to improving the condition of African women through conferences, seminars, workshop and vocational centres.