NHN coordination and information sharing includes positioning the network and the membership on operations and policies related to humanitarian and development assistance and policy.

The centre of Humanitarian advocacy of NHN is around “an effective and efficient humanitarian systems being led by responsible and accountable humanitarian and disaster mitigation institutions for the development of safer and disaster resistant nations

NHN is known as the biggest civil society network of Pakistan; keeping in view the importance of building local humanitarian capacities NHN is continuing with building its institutional capacity in the country

The practice of disaster related information management in this country is largely reactive. It is mostly after a disaster and seldom during the preparedness phase that any mapping of physical and human capacities of the humanitarian resources is carried out.