LCN is organised into sectoral commissions for effective co-ordination and management of member programmes. The main objective of establishing the commissions is to group NGO's with similar programmes/objectives together in order to share experiences and so to facilitate the work of co-ordination by LCN Secretariat.

The meetings are aimed at ensuring that commissions build and sustain networks and relationships that enable them to successfully address common issues for the purposes of advocacy. To ensure that commissions have adequate resources to enable them to engage in policy debates and formulation, implementation and monitoring of the policy framework, to develop the culture of dialogue amongst the various commissions and to encourage joint advocacy work on matters of national and regional importance such as democracy, human rights, transparency, good governance, electoral issues, peace building and issues of corruption in society.

LCN have the following the commissions, women and children, Democracy and Human Rights, Disaster and Humanitarian Relief, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Business Development and Human Resource and Training commission. The commissions meet once in a month to discuss their common areas of engagement and to map the way forward with regard to civil society participation in national issues. To date there are only two commissions that have programmes, AENRC and DHRC. It is against this background that it is important to draw lessons from the two commissions in order to build programmes for other remaining commissions.

Therefore, there will be planning processes that will be supported to identify roles that different commissions can play in influencing policies and expenditure, and in this regard it is crucial that all the commission members assume a lead role in advocacy for change. Meetings will be held per commission in order to assess individual organizations’ progress and also in identifying common constraints and challenge facing commissions.

Challenges facing the commissions
Civil Society solidarity and cooperation has become an integral part of development work given the magnitude of challenges and issues concerning the Civil Society Organisations in Lesotho. Some of these challenges facing NGOs in the commissions include; declining levels of funding both nationally and internationally, low levels of operating capacity of individual NGOs, commissions being exposed to structural complexcities especially with regard to reporting mechanisms, organizations no longer attending commission meetings due to the fact that there are no issues for discussion within the commissions and there is also lack of idea generation that could result into fundable programmes.

It is evident that the above mentioned challenges will result into problems with regard to the collective role of civil society organizations that would affect their participation in finding solutions to the problems in the country, particularly the increasing levels of poverty, deprivation and hunger, unemployment, HIV/AIDS, governance and democracy and gender disparities.

Towards this end it is increasingly becoming imperative for Civil Society Organisations in the Lesotho to build and sustain networks and relationships that will enable them to successfully address common issues together in order to make an impact and to engage in policy and poverty alleviation issues for the benefit of the poverty-stricken communities in Lesotho. In light of this, a lot of work still has to been done to ensure active and vibrant involvement of NGOs in the commissions so as to develop a culture of teaming on critical issues. LCN provides a platform that plays an important liaison role between NGOs in Lesotho with other development partners in and outside Lesotho. However, as indicated the commissions are faced with multiple challenges that need immediate attention.