The Way of Enabling Social Actors to Participate in decision-Making Processes in Local Communities

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to introduce the methodology and the results of educational pilot projects implemented in Lithuania in 2020. The results of the educational pilot projects confirmed the scientific hypothesis raised by the authors of this article that more active civil participation in decision-making processes in the local communities can be expected while recognizing the objective differences of the social actors (local stakeholders)and according to that the most appropriate forms of civil participation in decision-making processes would be selected as well as the accurate information for social actors (local stakeholders) classified into some groups would be provided