At the conference “Associated Citizens” , in Belgrade , on February 16, 2003 , the Federation of NGOs of Serbia – FENS – was founded. To date this is the network of NGOs with the largest number of members- in this moment network has around 460 member-organizations from 102 municipalities in Serbia .

The Executive body of the Network is FeNS Council,  consisted of 17 representatives of the organizations chosen by region. The Council is consisted of 3 co- presidents, who are representing FeNS in public.

At last FeNS Assembly, four objectives were clearly defined for the following period

	Designing the new Law on NGOs
	Legal regulation of financing and financial management of NGOs
	Creating institutional channels for communication with the Government
	Starting design of the national Strategy for Sustainable Development of the Civil Society.

Four declarations were also adopted: Programme Declaration, Declaration on Poverty Reduction and Role of NGOs in the Process, Declaration on Youth Participation, and Declaration on European Integrations. (documents)