In order to keep up its unique role as a key actor in the national WatSan sector, NGO Forum maintains a continuous and uninterrupted chain of strong advocacy and networking combining it with dissemination of relevant, comprehensive and up-to-date sectoral and organizational information. In line with its mandate to serve effectively as the apex networking and service delivery agency NGO Forum makes continuous coordination and collaboration among and with its partner organizations, sectoral stakeholders, gives special focus on creating favourable sectoral policy environment by promoting different policy and strategy issues, advocates for uniform policy implementation, for preventing duplication of efforts and for complementing each other for sector promotion. Combining these efforts NGO Forum runs it’s Advocacy & Information Services among various cross section of people ranging from the grassroots people to the policy-making authorities covering the civil society and different catalyst groups. 

Advocacy Services:
NGO Forum places advocacy high on its agenda in order to contribute in ensuring good governance and social justice by means of a perfectly united effort from all potential allies. Hence the Forum pursues different agencies and stakeholders implementing their programmes in line with the National WatSan Policy to ensure a rapid progress of the sector.

The Advocacy Services have been kept functional through collaboration, coordination, networking, lobby, policy advocacy, social mobilization, liaison, etc with different sectoral and trans-sectoral stakeholders. The target group of NGO Forum’s Advocacy Services includes the main partners, opinion leaders, local government bodies, different community groups, private sector actors, mass media, legislative level, donor bodies, different government agencies and other relevant actors in the sector.

The Advocacy Services of NGO Forum comprise of the following activities:

	Meeting with Sectoral Stakeholders
	Advocacy Meeting with Mass Media
	WatSan Fair
	Dissemination of Advocacy Material Package
	Policy advocacy on special WatSan issues.

Information Services:

NGO Forum facilitates a well-organized system for providing complete, correct and accessible WatSan information at the right moment. The  Information  Services  strengthen  the  advocacy  and  networking  system  of  the  Forum with the
collaborating partners as well as to play effective role in awareness building of the stakeholders. NGO Forum collects and processes relevant Watsan data on sectoral, organizational and programmatic issues, and maintains a regular sharing and dissemination of the relevant and important information among its partners, policy-makers, sector professionals and sectoral and trans-sectoral stakeholders.

The Information Services are facilitated through different media:

Workshop   Seminer    Symposium

Seminar and Symposium are arranged in observance of the National and International markable days related to WatSan & environment highlighting on the WatSan issues with participation from the government to civil society. Workshops are arranged on striking WatSan issues with participation of the partners & sectoral stakeholders.

Radio & TV Spot Radio Programme    Audio Cassettes on WatSan & Hygiene Issues    WatSan Slides    Promotional and Documentary Films

The audio-visual media of the Forum Successfully disseminated necessary WatSan and hygiene information and messages among people.

WatSan Newsletter (Quarterly)    WatSan Bulletin (Monthly)    Brochure    Annual Report    WatSan Information Booklet    WatSan Information Diary    Case Study Book

The print media package of NGO Forum has disseminated information to and helped sensitizing various stakeholders for the sector promotion.

Collecting, Processing & Disseminating WatSan Data News-Clipping & Dissemination    Internet & Web-site Services

WatSan & relevant information is processed and disseminated among the partners & stakeholders including professionals, policy makers and potential information seekers through different WatSan Source. Newspaper clippings on WatSan, environmental and hygiene issues is processed and disseminated among the stakeholders. The organizational Web-site has been running containing important and updated information on Organizational Profile, Programmes, Projects, Events and so on. WatSan Newsletter and Bulletin is disseminated through Web-site on regular basis.