More recently, realizing the need to work together rather than compete, Diadema and the other municipal governments in the industrial region of the MRSP, home to many favelas, have set up both a Regional Chamber and an Agency for Economic Development made up of municipal and state government officials, unions, businesspeople and civil society.
With the aim to ensure national and government endorsement to the National Youth Policy, this conference will more specifically review the participatory process based on partnership between the United Nations, civil society and the State.
"The political foundations from Germany are making an important contribution to the development of democratic structures, the building of a state based on law and the encouragement of civil society, " CDU general secretary Hermann Groehe said in a statement.
Moreover, each signatory State recognizes the fundamental role of civil society and commits itself to encouraging its active participation.
"The event will mobilize Heads of State and government, leaders of UN agencies, international and bilateral organizations, foundations, donors, the private sector, civil society, academics, religious leaders, eminent personalities, the media and other stakeholders in an effort to reinforce commitment in favour of programs for girls' education, " said the Federal Minister for Education and Training.
Cognisance of all these principles needs to be taken into account on these burgeoning platforms by the range of actors involved, whether State bodies, private sector intermediaries, the media, civil society and individual users.
Our success on this front cannot be made through state actions alone but will need to involve cooperation with civil society groups and structures.
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Mr Assad himself added more oblique warnings in a rare interview published in February, declaring that the forums were not representative of public opinion, that the term civil society was a foreign invention, and that he would never allow the interests of the state to be endangered.
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