RWA

RWA may refer to:

Organizations

 * Race Walking Association, a professional sports body in the UK
 * Resident welfare association, any self-organised group (particularly in India) which claims to represent the residents of a specified region
 * Romance Writers of America, a genre-specific writers association
 * Rot Weiss Ahlen, a football club in Ahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
 * Royal West of England Academy, an art gallery and academy in Clifton, Bristol, UK
 * Royal West Academy, a secondary school in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Science and technology

 * Reaction wheel assembly, in spacecraft control
 * Right-wing authoritarianism, a psychological personality variable
 * Rotating-wave approximation, a mathematical simplification used in atom optics and magnetic resonance
 * Routing and wavelength assignment, 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, a bank risk management variable usually used in the context of Basel II
 * RWA, abbreviation for Rwanda, an east-central African country
 * Ryan White Act (Ryan White CARE Act), US law providing assistance to people living with HIV/AIDS