About the Participation Citizens Toolkit

What is the Toolkit Citizens Participation

Region

Africa

Asia

Europe

Australia and Pacific

North America

Latin America

Scale

Village

Urban

Metropolitan

Rural district

Small scale urban

Unknown

Focus

Health and Sanitation

Urban upgrading

Improving local government

Environmental rehabilitation

Urban economic development

Rural economic development

Environment

Infrastructure

Economic Development

Administrational capacities

Social Development and poverty allivation

Cultural development

Agricultural projects

Citizenship and Political awareness raising

Spatial planning

Public safety and crime prevention

Disaster management

Habitat

Integrated rural development programmes

Energy conservation

Gender issues

Womens' rights

Drugrelated problems

Communication

Transport

Actors

The council

Municipal employees

Service NGOs

CBOs Grassroots organisations

National enterprises

Organisations of neighbourhood people

National Government

Governmental institutions

Village or local self governing body

Research Institutes

Financing Institutions

Health organisations

Educational organisations

Womens organisations

Labour organisations

Ethnical organisations

Youth organisations

International enterprises

Local and small enterprises

Communication organisations

Media

International Organisations

Network(ing) organisations

Individiual citizens

Report on study trip to the Stuttgart region, Germ...

TOOLKIT AWARD 2006 GOES TO BULGARIA!

Interesting study visits on citizen participation

European Charter of Active Citizenship!

Cameroon, Mamfe, Participation of grassr...

India, Amadagu Mandal, Anantapur Distric...

Bulgaria, Svishtov municipality, Local I...

India, Kalyani, Creating Employment in B...

Benin, , Participative Planning for Deve...

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WHAT IS THE TOOLKIT PARTNERSHIP?
We are a growing group of civil society (NGO) and local government organisations from all over the world, working together to promote participatory local governance.

Our site offers information on tools which promote citizen participation, a forum for discussions and it holds articles for further reference. Please submit your own case or join us as a Participant.

We hope that our site inspires you to participate more fully in local governance!
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Citizen participation in local governance is an important theme in policy and development debates. This website aims to contribute to this debate.

The toolkit offers various types of information on citizen participation in local governance. The major part of the website is filled with a database of cases from all over the world. Each case describes a real-life practice on participatory governance, including tools used and lessons learnt. Contact details of persons and organizations involved are provided whenever possible.
The site also presents articles and links to organizations active in the field of participatory local governance.

A dynamic site like this will is never 'finished'. Therefore we invite you to contribute with your own articles, links and cases.by sending these to the webmaster (you can do so under 'contact us').

We trust this Participation Toolkit will contribute to promoting citizen participation in local governance worldwide!

Report on study trip to the Stuttgart region, Germany
wednesday 11 october 2006
The Governance International Study Trip on Citizen Participation to the Stuttgart region showed how decision-makers at local and central levels of government and representatives of NGO can take existing approaches of citizen engagement further and make them more results-oriented.

TOOLKIT AWARD 2006 GOES TO BULGARIA!
thursday 22 june 2006
At the World Urban Forum in Vancouver, Canada, the Toolkit Award 2006 was presented to a representative from Svishtov municipality (Obshtina Svishtov). Every two years this global prize is awarded to the organisation / municipality which has added the most inspiring case on citizen participation at the local level to www.toolkitparticipation.com

Mayor Wim Deetman, first vice-president of CEMR has received the Award on behalf of his colleague, Mayor Blagov of Svishtov Municipality. The award was presented by Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director of UN Habitat.

Interesting study visits on citizen participation
monday 08 may 2006
Governance International Study visit programme 2006

Governance International is pleased to announce that it will organize and facilitate three Good Practice Visits in 2006. Each of these exciting and innovative study visits will take place over two days and include a number of site visits to cutting-edge organizations and partnerships. The directors and staff of Governance International will also give you briefing presentations and background material which help you to get maximum benefit from the visits. The working language of the visits will be English.

European Charter of Active Citizenship!
friday 31 march 2006

Active Citizenship Network – the European program of the Italian citizens’ organisation
Cittadinanzattiva - and FONDACA, the Active Citizenship Foundation, are implementing since
June 2005 a project aiming at improving the European and national policies on civic activism
through the definition of the rights and duties of civic participation.

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