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Associating with Services

In this section we will explain the system and method regarding associating yourself with the services with elements of Open Forum and show your support to the Programme and Activities. Community service refers to service that a person performs for the benefit of his or her local community. People become involved in community service for a range of reasons — for some, serving community is an altruistic act, for others it is a punishment. The term "community service" therefore refers to projects that member of certain organizations. Some people may view Community Service as a hassle but others may view it as a "good thing to do." It is also an alternative sentencing technique in a justice system. And at times groups of people will commit to perform service to the community as a gesture to the larger community, as part of gift economics. Mandatory Community Research has recently increased in many economic segments of Nation. A study was done that correlates community service with academic success; students, who maintain a weekly community service record, 85% of the time, are more likely to succeed and have a higher grade point average than those who do none at all.

Let us now look at specific areas of interest for Open Forum where you can involve yourself with Programme, Activities or Services:

| Policy dialogue
Non-state actors’ formal or informal participation in intergovernmental discussion, institutional governance, or normative and standard-setting structures within the Open Forum system; or policy dialogue with Open Forum entities outside official intergovernmental processes through global policy networks and voluntary initiatives desensitize policy discussion and bring new angles to discussions.

| Advocacy
Cooperation between the social development organization actors and grassroots communities, raise public awareness and support for Open Forum goals and programmes through joint communications, product-licensing and cause-related or social marketing. Furthermore the private sector can help the Open Forum in its efforts to advocate policy reform both at the national and international level.

| Mobilizing private funds
Cooperation could mobilize public and private capital for Open Forum programmes and projects for development, including humanitarian funds or investment capital.

| Knowledge and learning
Facilitating knowledge sharing, research and joint learning between the Open Forum, governments and/or non-state actors for capacity building and disseminating knowledge and know-how on critical development issues and methodologies.

| Operational delivery
Collaborating on joint programmes and project design, implementation and evaluation, and the mobilization of financial, in-kind, technical or managerial resources enables effective delivery of country programmes.

| Partnership promotion
Actions by Open Forum partner organizations that encourage, foster and facilitate the development of partnerships help us to achieve Open Forum objectives.

| Commercial investments
Investments from the private sector contributes to the achievement of the MDGs, including jobs, provision of services, infrastructure.

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