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Local Agenda & Participatory Budget
Approaches, Methods, and Instruments for qualified
and successful Citizens' Participation on local Level
Local Agenda and Participatory Budget are some of the most relevant approaches to promote local democracy in communities all over Europe. Learning Community builds on the rich experiences including the perspective of learning approaches within communities while transcending and improving methods and instruments that make participation vivid and powerful.
Learning Community training offers methods, techniques and advise on how to start, how to implement and how to keep a Local Agenda and Participatory Budget process long-lasting.
The Learning Community training addresses local stakeholders such as town councillors, representatives of public authorities organisations and multipliers if civil society. As a European Course, Learning Community offers a mutual exchange of experience and expertise among participants and facilitators of different European countries and various local contexts.
Objectives
Participants will gain profound theoretical and practical knowledge of the approaches Local Agenda and Participatory Budget
Participants will learn, test and evaluate different participatory methodologies and instruments useful for local level implementation
Participants will be able to plan, design and conduct a Local Agenda and Participatory Budget process on community level
Participants will know how to consider and strengthen local participatory processes and make them long lasting
Participants will be able to address new challenges in their professional field of action by reflecting very particular case studies and find solutions to specific problems.
Learning Community addresses
- town councillors
- representatives of public authorities
- Organisations of civil society
- multipliers, esp. with educational background
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Handbook Learning Community
