NGO Forum for Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation (DWSS) is the apex networking and service delivery organization working in the WatSan sector since 1982. Under the umbrella of NGO Forum for DWSS, NRC is established in 2001 to act as a catalyst to provide support services through information and knowledge management and dissemination. As one of the features of a resource centre, NRC is enriching its database launched in 2004 with objective for archiving and systematically retrieves data and information of water and sanitation sector. Through this database system, it has been possible by NGO Forum to procure data for the systematic use for the WatSan Sector and NGO Forum itself.

The WatSan database covering information on “who is doing what, their reports, researches, achievements, organizations etc” with huge back-end support, is being upgraded to make it more informative, user-customized, and online. WatSan bodies around the world can easily access to database with the facility of entering and uploading the data and information. It is believed that through the enriched and informative online-database, NRC could flourish the WatSan sector making information and knowledge accessible and reachable to all