In June 2002 ADEPT together with the Agenda 21 Program of UNDP held training seminars entitled Partnership Step by Step in Soroca, Orhei, Ungheni and Lapusna. The seminars gathered representatives of local government, NGOs and business community who worked together to define partnership, to identify advantages of partnership for each of the partners as well as obstacles, and to decide the criteria for selecting a reliable partner. Ina Gutium of ADEPT presented the legal provisions regulating partnership, forms of cooperation between government and NGOs, and business and NGOs as well as steps in partnership building. Participants from all the four localities had the opportunity to share their success stories in partnership building at the grassroots. At the end of the seminars participants worked on case studies in an attempt to find joint solutions to the problems each of the Moldovan communities is facing.