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• Provide substantive no-strings-attached financial and other appropriate support for building the infrastructure of civil society networks and meta-networks at the municipal, provincial, regional, and national levels. Civil society organizations (CSOs) build ecological, human, cultural, and societal capital that benefit governments and businesses. These valuable contributions need to be supported because CSOs are non-profit by nature.
• Create an Office for Civil Society to help facilitate the massive mobilization and involvement of civil society movements, networks, and organizations at all levels of governance throughout the country.
• Encourage, based on existing sector focus, the formation of CSO clusters/networks around each national government agency. These agency-specific CSO networks will become the respective partners of the different agencies of government.
• Channel appropriate segments of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the strengthening of civil society meta-networks and networks, and CSO participation in governance, and the implementation of innovative programs and projects.
• Support efforts of civil society to create sector and area-based trust funds to ensure their financial sustainability; balance this support with the appropriate regulatory provisions to ensure that these trust funds will be used for the common good.
• Mainstream innovative CSO programs and projects as official national government policies and programs.
• Provide counterpart funding for CSO participation in strategic global conferences, with the proviso that such supported CSO participation necessitates the formal sharing of results of and experiences in these global conferences.
• Issue an Executive Order instructing local government units to create culture and arts councils predominantly involving local artist practitioners and cultural workers.
• Transfer NCCA governance, while maintaining government oversight, over to civil society especially, but not exclusively, competent cultural workers and artists.

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