RWA may refer to:

Organizations

* Race Walking Association, a professional sports body in the UK *

Resident welfare association A resident welfare association (frequently abbreviated as RWA) is a Non-governmental organization that represents the interests of the residents of a specific urban or suburban locality, particularly in Indian cities. Membership Membership is v ...

, any self-organised group (particularly in India) which claims to represent the residents of a specified region *

Romance Writers of America Romance Writers of America (RWA) is an American non-profit writers' association founded in 1980. Its mission is to "advance the professional and common business interests of career-focused romance writers through networking and advocacy and by incr ...

, a genre-specific writers association * Rot Weiss Ahlen, a football club in Ahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany *

Royal West of England Academy The Royal West of England Academy (RWA) is Bristol's oldest art gallery, located in Clifton, Bristol, near the junction of Queens Road and Whiteladies Road. Situated in a Grade 2* listed building, it hosts five galleries and an exhibition program ...

, an art gallery and academy in Clifton, Bristol, UK * Royal West Academy, a secondary school in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Science and technology

Reaction wheel A reaction wheel (RW) is used primarily by spacecraft for three-axis attitude control, and does not require rockets or external applicators of torque. They provide a high pointing accuracy, and are particularly useful when the spacecraft must be ...

assembly, in spacecraft control * Right-wing authoritarianism, a psychological personality variable *

Rotating wave approximation The rotating-wave approximation is an approximation used in atom optics and magnetic resonance. In this approximation, terms in a Hamiltonian that oscillate rapidly are neglected. This is a valid approximation when the applied electromagnetic radi ...

, a mathematical simplification used in atom optics and magnetic resonance *

Routing and wavelength assignment The routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) problem is an optical networking problem with the goal of maximizing the number of optical connections. Definition The general objective of the RWA problem is to maximize the number of established conne ...

, a process in optical network routing

Other uses

* Research Works Act, proposed US law (2011) to prohibit requiring free public access to results of federally funded research *

Risk-weighted asset Risk-weighted asset (also referred to as RWA) is a bank's assets or off-balance-sheet exposures, weighted according to risk. This sort of asset calculation is used in determining the capital requirement or Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) for a financi ...

, a bank risk management variable usually used in the context of Basel II *RWA, abbreviation for

Rwanda Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator ...

, an east-central African country *Ryan White Act ( Ryan White CARE Act), US law providing assistance to people living with HIV/AIDS {{Disambiguation