NGOs in Turkey working in the fields of women, children, youth, disabled- and social-rights are increasing in number and becoming more and more effective by the day. We all witness how, in recent years, it is becoming a significant advocacy issue for rights-based NGOs to monitor the resources that the public authorities allocate to various social areas, to influence the public policy towards an increase of the amount of spending and to enable all dimensions of social expenditures to be discussed publicly.