This website is a key pillar of the exchanges the NGO Forum is committed to promoting. In pursuit of the ultimate goal of Health for All, we seek to offer a space where our members, and others with a similar vision, can exchange information, knowledge, ideas, experiences and challenges. We’re recovering from a serious hacking incident and are still reconstructing, but this has given us an opportunity to rethink our communications. Please offer us your inputs for the website and suggestions for its improvement.

The past year has seen important developments in the Forum’s work, a number of them guided by the independent Strategic Review which reported in October 2012 (see below). We have engaged with the WHO’s reform process, the Global Mental Health Action Plan, and the UN’s Social Protection Floor Initiative. Other sections of the website list specific events and activities, including action by our working groups. For an overview of issues, and a range of useful documentation, see the Issues section.

Let me thank our members, volunteers, interns and other friends for the enthusiasm they’ve brought to the Forum not only this year but on an ongoing basis. We offer individual as well as institutional membership – please contact us for details.

Alan Leather
President