NGO Forum on ADB

NGO Forum on ADB (FORUM) is an Asian-led network of non-government and Community-based organizations that support each other to amplify their positions on Asian Development Bank's policies, programs, and projects affecting life forms, resources, constituents - the local communities.
Its origin lies in the NGO Working Group on the ADB (NGOWG-ADB) formed by representatives of civil society groups. From a loose network since 1992, network partners agreed in 1999 to evolve the network into an independent organization. Since then, the NGO Working Group became known as the NGO Forum on ADB. Forum was legally incorporated in the Philippines in May 2001.