Public Participation and Sustainable Development On-Line Module

Welcome to the Public Participation and Sustainable Development Online Module. This module addresses the different ways in which citizens can be engaged in public issues, and is organized according to the following central themes:

• General introduction to public participation
  What do we understand about Public Participation? Why is it important? Which institutions are necessary for public participation?

• Access to decision making processes
  How can we participate in decision-making? What effects does citizen participation have?

• Access to public information
  What is public information? Why is it important? How can we access this information?

• Access to justice
  How do we defend our collective rights? What mechanisms do we count on in order to access justice?

The Public Participation and Sustainable Development Module gives a conceptual framework about public participation and provides access to resources such as case studies, bibliography, related sites, regulations, research documents, etc. We would appreciate you sending us suggestions about other resources related to public participation that could enrich the module's content.

This module was developed by FARN with the cooperation of IISD (Canada); The REC (Hungary) and SEI (Sweden), within the framework of the Sustainable Development Communications Network. Its implementation has been possible thanks to the help of the Canadian International Development Agency and the AVINA Group.

 

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