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Building partnerships for good governance involves recognizing and including all relevant stakeholders in a community into strategic alliances around goals and tasks. These strategic alliances involve recognition of strengths and weaknesses of the various partners, as well as developing synergies for results-oriented activities. With these active partnerships, the involved institutions, citizens and organizations recognize not only the value of passively receiving benefits from proximity but also the value of assertively seeking out the best of each others’ performance possibilities. Cooperative, productive partnerships involve institutions, citizens and organizations. In this spirit, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) participated in the World Conference on Governance, hosted by the Government of the Philippines and organized by the Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration (EROPA), the Philippine Civil Service Commission and the University of the Philippines’ National College of Public Administration and Governance in Manila, from 31 May-4 June 1999. During the Conference, UNDESA organized a half-day programme consisting of a plenary session and five workshops, focusing on the following six themes:...