The objective of this article is to discuss civil society participation in the context of the VI CONFINTEA and questions to which the preparatory process has given rise. To that end, it recounts the way in which this participation has occurred in recent Brazilian history in dialogue with the constitution of public policies of adult and youth education, whilst discussing the relation between public power and civil society. It goes back to the preparatory process for CONFINTEA V, which took place in Hamburg (Germany) in 1997 and the resulting creation of the state forums of adult and youth education and the national meetings of these forums - ENEJAS, giving expression to a particular type of participation.
VI CONFINTEA; civil society participation