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Outline While being quite prescriptive in their principles, public participation provisions of Article 6 of the convention are rather flexible in leaving the national governments the breathing space to regulate the details of implementing procedures (such as processes of notification, organisation of public hearings, making the information available, taking due account of the public comments, etc). Where the text of the convention has been adopted as a whole and procedural regulations and guidance are missing, officials are often left with an uneasy choice of relying entirely on their intuition. As has happened many times with decisions on providing the public access to particular information, an official in such a position tends to take safer and more conservative approach. Active public involvement in the development of such procedures is often a key to success. The NGOs and community organisers can help to identify the most efficient methods and approaches to greater involvement of the public and building more constructive dialogue within the decision-making process. This project aims at building capacity and improving efficiency and quality of government environmental decision making by facilitating the development of implementing provisions and regulations at national and local levels. The larger intent is to disseminate and promote the use of best practices of public participation in order to show the benefits of well-functioning democratic mechanisms. The trainings will involve mainly decision makers on the local, and where applicable, the national level. To ensure proper reflection of civil society’s position with regard to the public participation process development, the NGOs and, whenever possible, businesses will also be involved into the programme. |
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