Development. The objectives would be achievement through the integration between ministerial actions and policy coordination in the three governmental spheres. This process would value the assumptions of multidimensionality, the multiple scales of power and would be underpinned by the broad popular participation. Thus, we have as object of study's object the Ribeira Valley Territory Citizenship, located in southeastern portion of State of São Paulo. The territory has a unique socio-cultural diversity, marked by several territorial occupation invested by both Brazilian migrants as by foreigners. The geographic, regional and political constraints, were instrumental maintaining the biodiversity of the Atlantic Florest in the region, that now forms the main ecological corridor of this biome in Brazil. The Ribeira Valley Territory Citizenship is marked by several attempts to implement plans e actions by both the government as per initiatives of social organizations. However, the proposals have been implemented in a dispersed and intermittent, not translating in the socialization of positive externalities proposed by plans and actions, and keeping the regular framework of economic and social indicators. From the turn of the millennium, socioeconomic dynamics Ribeira Valley Territory show a variation of productive activities, with decreasing the importance of the agricultural and the quantitative increase around service sector, and a relative improvement of social and economic indicators, dynamics driven by increased public investments in the region, intensified in the early 2000. From this context, the objectives of this dissertation passed through the understanding of the challenges and perspectives the emerged with the implementation of regional programs in the Ribeira Valley Territory Citizenship, especially the Citizenship Territories Program. The results show the program not effected the proposed objectives in its formulation. On de contrary, the implementation of the program was marked by widespread demobilization of popular participation and government, reflecting the retreat of the territorial perspective as a public policy category oriented to the development of rural areas. The effects process identifies the few innovations achieved with the implementation of the Territories for Sustainable Development National Program were lost, so there is a regression in the use of the discourse of territorial approach. This result has as determinants the asymmetrical power relation as well as the local government context marked by resistance to changes in the way planning the use of public resources and the party-political conflicts played by public officials and local leaders.