%0 Journal Article %T Social movement, public policy changes and partnerships building for local development %A Vasconcellos %A M¨¢rio %A Vasconcellos %A Ana Maria %J Intera£¿£¿es (Campo Grande) %D 2012 %I Universidade Cat¨®lica Dom Bosco %R 10.1590/S1518-70122012000200011 %X the paper debates the rural social movement's influence on policy changes for small-scale rural producers and the creation of partnerships between government and local organizations for local development in amazonia, particularly in par¨¢ state. the paper's goal is to examine partnership as a result of an interactive process of both changes of public policies and the demands of social movements. the paper shows that although social movements are part of a relation of conflict between state and society, in par¨¢ they were a precondition for changes in public policy, financing and in the priorities of regional agencies that resulted in propositions for cooperation between local government and local organizations at munic¨ªpio level. %K social movement %K partnership %K local development. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1518-70122012000200011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en