To citizen:

• Helps to become more active and actively involved in the decision-making process at the local level;
• Helps improve skills, acquire new skills and apply them while working in  his/her own community;
• Helps to develop engagement mechanisms in his/her community; To communicate effectively to identify his/herr own needs, and to overcome challenges; 

It helps the citizen to become more aware of the rights and responsibilities he / she has in front of  his / her municipality and gives him / her the opportunity to participate in both, the planning and implementation stages.

The citizen:

• The academy acquires relevant knowledge and skills in the field of participation  with the help of training seminars, invited experts, practitioners, and qualified trainers,
•  Carrying out the practical work of the partitioning process enables the proper planning process and execution of the partitioning process.

To municipality: 

• Enhances image and authority;
• Gives the opportunity to demonstrate self-government activities and implement open, accountable governance;

• Gives an opportunity to better understand the needs of citizens and the community;
• Cope with challenges by means of participation;
• Gain supporters and the goodwill of the population;

• Allows to become certified and implement engagement mechanisms in its area;
• Provides an opportunity to address local challenges through participatory budgeting with citizen involvement;
• Gives international experience;
• Gives the opportunity to have competent staff in matters of participation;
• Shares the essence of the European leader approach, which involves bottom-up governance;
• Increases trust in the population;

The result is an active civil society that values their work more and builds trust between government and citizens.

Municipality:

• Gains theoretical and practical experience;
• Goes through certification;
•  Receives assistance from experienced experts in the development and implementation of participation mechanisms;
• Receives consultations from the experts of the academy;

To public organizations:

• Allow employees to upgrade their participation skills;
• Become competent in participation issues and, in the future, participate in grant competitions in this regard;
• Establish cooperation with municipalities;
• To get acquainted with and gain international experience in the implementation of “Participation Mechanisms’;
• Involve themselves or encourage citizens to be actively involved in the decision-making process at the local level;
• Lobby important social projects and be involved not only in the monitoring and evaluation phase, but also are given the opportunity to be active at the beginning of the process;

Civil Society Organization

• With the help of training seminars, invited experts, practitioners, qualified trainers, they acquire relevant knowledge and skills in the field of participation.
• Acquire theoretical and practical knowledge and experience;