# National Council

National Council may refer to:

## Conservation

* National Council for Science and the Environment, a US-based non-profit organization which has a mission to improve the scientific basis for environmental decision-making
* National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens, former name of Plant Heritage, a British registered charity

## Economics

* National Competitiveness Council, an independent policy advisory body in the Republic of Ireland
* National Council of Welfare, a Canadian citizens' body
* National Council on Economic Education, a nationwide non-profit organization that leads in promoting economic and financial literacy
* National Economic Development Council, a corporatist economic planning forum set up in the 1962 in the United Kingdom to bring together management, trades unions and government in an attempt to address Britain's relative economic decline

## Education

* Kenya National Examinations Council, the national body responsible for overseeing national examination in Kenya
* National Assessment and Accreditation Council, an autonomous body funded by University Grants Commission of Government of India based in Bangalore
* National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, a council of educators created to ensure and raise the quality of preparation for their profession
* National Council of Educational Research and Training, Indian governmental organization for school textbooks
* National Council for the Social Studies, a US-based association devoted to supporting social studies education
* National Council for the Training of Journalists, an organisation that oversees the training of journalists for the newspaper industry in the United Kingdom
* National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying, a national non-profit organization composed of engineering and land surveying licensing boards representing all U.S. states and territories
* National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, the most influential organization in the United States promoting ceramics as an art form
* National Council on Educational Reform, a governmental organization in Japan
* National Council for Teacher Education, a governmental organization in India
* National Council on Teacher Quality, a Washington D.C.–based think tank that advocates for tougher teacher evaluations

## Politics

* Estonian National Council, one of the oldest and largest Estonian central organisations in Sweden
* Jewish National Council, executive body of the Jewish community in Mandatory Palestine
* National Advisory Council (NAC) of India, an advisory body set up, during the First and Second Manmohan Singh ministries to monitor the implementation of the United Progressive Alliance government's manifesto
* National Councils, local government institutions of the Polish People's Republic from 1952 to 1990
* National Council of Administration, a former executive body in Uruguay (1919–1933)
* National Council of La Raza, a non-profit, non-partisan political advocacy group in the United States, now known as UnidosUS
* National Council of Resistance of Iran, an Iranian exile organisation
* National Council of the Union of Burma, a liberal resistance organisation in Myanmar
* National Council of Women's Organizations, an American non-profit political organization headed by Martha Burk
* National Council of American–Soviet Friendship, the successor organisation to the National Council on Soviet Relations
* National Electoral Council (Venezuela), the institution in charge of all electoral processes that take place in Venezuela
* National Operations Council, an emergency administrative body which attempted to restore law and order in Malaysia after the May 13 Incident in 1969
* National Peace Keeping Council, a Thai military junta that overthrew the civilian elected government of Chatichai Choonhavan in 1991
* National Council (Vichy Government)

### Political parties

* Assam Jatiya Parishad (lit. 'Assam National Council'), a political party in Assam, India
* Codava National Council, a political party in the Indian state of Karnataka
* Garo National Council, a political party in Meghalaya, India
* Iraqi National Dialogue Council, a Sunni Arab political party initially established as an umbrella organization of approximately 10 smaller Sunni parties to take part in the 2005 Iraqi Constitution drafting process
* National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons, a Nigerian political party from 1944 to 1966
* National Council for the Defense of Democracy, a former ethnic Hutu rebel group that now functions as a political party in Burundi
* National Council for the Defense of Democracy – Forces for the Defense of Democracy, another former rebel group and current political party in Burundi
* National Council of Venezuelan Indians, a political party in Venezuela
* United African National Council, a party led by Abel Muzorewa

### Legislative bodies

* Federal National Council, the legislature of the United Arab Emirates
* National Council, the second chamber of the National Assembly of Estonia from 1938 to 1940
* National Council (Austria), one of the two houses of the Austrian parliament
* National Council (Bhutan), the upper chamber of the parliament of the Kingdom of Bhutan
* National Council (Greece), short-lived legislative body convened by the National Liberation Front in Greece in May 1944
* Czech National Council
* National Council (Monaco), the parliament of the Principality of Monaco
* National Council (Namibia), the upper chamber of the country's bicameral Parliament
* National Council (Nepal), a national legislature
* National Council of Provinces, the upper house of the Parliament of South Africa under the constitution which came into full effect in 1997
* National Council (Switzerland), the large Chamber of the parliament
* National Council (Slovakia), the parliament of Slovakia since 1 October 1992
* National Council of Turkmenistan, a defunct parliament of Turkmenistan
* Palestinian National Council, the parliament in exile of the Palestinian people
* Provisional National Defence Council, the Ghanaian government after the People's National Party's elected government was overthrown by Jerry Rawlings
* Sahrawi National Council, the legislature of the government in exile of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
* State National Council, a parliament-like political body formed in the late stages of the Second World War in the Soviet Union

### Unification

* National Unification Advisory Council, a constitutional governmental organization to advise the President of South Korea on the formulation of Korean peaceful unification policy
* National Unification Council, a governmental body in the Republic of China on Taiwan whose aim is to promote unification with Mainland China

### Racial reconciliation

* Chinese Canadian National Council, an organization whose purpose is to monitor racial discrimination against Chinese in Canada
* Métis National Council, a national representative of the Métis people in Canada
* National Council for Combating Discrimination, an agency of the Romanian government
* National Council on Canada-Arab Relations, a non-profit organization dedicated to building bridges of understanding and cooperation between Canada and the Arab world

## Religion

* National Council of Churches, a religious organization consisting of 35 Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, African-American and historic Christian denominations in the United States
* National Council of Churches in Australia, an ecumenical organisation bringing together a number of Australia's Christian churches in dialogue and practical cooperation
* National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools, a nonprofit organization that promotes the use of its 300-page Bible curriculum in schools throughout the United States

## Science

* National Science Council, the main governmental promotion and funding body for science research in Taiwan
* National Scientific and Technical Research Council, an Argentine government agency which directs and co-ordinates most of the scientific and technical research done in public universities and institutes

## Social aid

* National Council of Women of Australia, an Australian organization founded in 1931
* National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, an American organization
* National Council on Compensation Insurance, a U.S. insurance rating and data collection bureau specializing in workers compensation
* National Council on Disability, an advisory board within the Department of Education
* National Council on Problem Gambling (Singapore), a council set up in Singapore on 31 August 2005 to address problem gambling
* National Temperance Council, a 1913 establishment

## Unionization

* National Council of Trade Unions, a national trade union center in South Africa
* National Council of Unions of the Industrial and Lower Income Group of Government Workers, a national trade union center in Malaysia

## Volunteering

* Boy Scouts of America National Council
* National Council for Voluntary Organisations, the umbrella body for the voluntary sector in England
* National Council of Jewish Women, a volunteer organization
* National Council of Negro Women, a voluntary non-profit membership organization with the mission to advance the opportunities and the quality of life for African American women, their families and communities

## Other

* Australian National Kennel Council, the peak body in Australia responsible for promoting excellence in breeding, showing, trialling, obedience, and other canine-related activities
* Greek National Council for Radio and Television, an independent supervisory and regulatory administrative authority of the radio and television market
* National Advertising Review Council, former name of Advertising Self-Regulatory Council, an organization based in New York US that provides self-regulatory services to the American advertising industry
* National Chicken Council, the non-profit trade association representing the U.S. chicken industry
* National Council (Slovenia), the constitutional representative of social, economic, professional and local interest groups
* National Council for the Maltese Language, an associate member of the European Federation of National Institutions for Language in the EU
* National Council for the Traditional Arts, a private, non-profit arts organization based in the United States that promotes the traditional arts
* National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, the professional association of architectural registration boards of the various states in the United States
* National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, a U.S. organization which seeks to formulate and widely disseminate information, guidance and recommendations on radiation protection
* National Crime Prevention Council, an American educational nonprofit organization whose mission is to enable people to create safer and more caring communities by addressing the causes of crime and violence
* National Fire Information Council, a United States agency that encourages and perpetuates the use of a standardized national incident reporting system as a means of addressing the nation's fire problem and related emergency services issues
* National Foreign Trade Council, a US-based business lobby group for free trade and multinational corporations
* National House Building Council, the National House Builders Registration Council in the United Kingdom
* National Intelligence Council, the center for midterm and long-term strategic thinking within the United States Intelligence Community
* National Multicultural Greek Council, an umbrella council for thirteen Multicultural Greek Letter Organizations established in 1998
* National Pan-Hellenic Council, an umbrella organization for nine historically-black, international Greek letter fraternities and sororities
* National Peace Council, the co-ordinating body for almost 200 groups across Britain
* National Safety Council, a not-for-profit safety organization that was chartered by the US government in 1913
* Singapore National Olympic Council, a registered society
* National Council Against Health Fraud, a US-based organization