Media, Unions and Associations , and churches are becoming more courageous and creative. Fear of government prosecution deters media, and community organizers. International support and protection for them is needed, as well as partnership for capacity building and for the supply of resources. Community spirit is hard to promote as government and private sector promote individualism and exclusion, fearing the people should they become really united. People and groups must do more to support each other.
Civic education is needed to promote a concept of citizenship, and to define a national agenda.
A partnership with the state must be established. Companies would like to see greater transparency but they will not press the government to reveal budgets or bank accounts. It is unlikely that the Angolan government will accept this type of recommendation from the companies, and they are unlikely to make them. They are very absent in the peacemaking process. Certainly the Angolan government, since it is winning the war, is now more in the spotlight of how it serves the people, and its shortcomings more clearly seen since not all or even most of the suffering can be blamed on the war.