At the end of each session of the Municipal Council, citizens are given the opportunity to make comments, ask questions, and offer suggestions on matters of public importance with no preliminary listing or censorship.

The project activities aim to involve young people in a dialogue with government institutions. On the one hand, youths study many similar subjects at school geography, history, ethics, law, world and personality, but on the other hand, there are no practical mechanisms that convert the knowledge in all these areas in an active citizens position.

Discussion forum Stop Violence gathered institutions, local authorities, public figures, and students aiming to achieve higher level of information, dialog, and partnership in violence prevention. The participants set effective forms of future joint work.

Municipality of Razgrad is the first one in Bulgaria to develop and enforce and Ethical code for the officials of the municipal administration. The document defined the rules of ethics for municipal officials behavior Its main goal is to preserve the public trust in the morality and professionalism of the officials, as well as to increase the prestige of the local authorities.

Public relations experts regularly conduct surveys with the citizens of Vidin on important public issues. The extent of citizen participation in this context is important for the decision making process.

One of the priorities of the Municipality of Razgrad was engaging as many citizens as possible in resolving local problems. In 1997, collaborating with the United States Agency for International Development, the local Razgrad authorities developed a project for building public councils that would consist of different population groups. Public councils would work on problems in various areas: education and youths spare time activities, culture, sport, health, social activities, and infrastructure and development. After preliminary consultations with eminent public figures and specialists in the different areas, the project partners pointed out the members of the public councils, including representatives of all interested groups.

The project aims at paying more attention to the needs and problems of the citizens of the distant neighborhoods of the City of Dobrich. Since May 2003, the Municipality of Dobrich provides the citizens of two remote neighborhoods Balik and Riltsi with municipal services and information through the electronic desks of Information Services AD branch of Dobrich. At the same cash registers, citizens could pay their electricity and water bills. Hence, the inhabitants of the these neighborhoods save time and receive same high quality service as the one at the Center for Citizens Services and Information of the Municipality of Dobrich.

For more than 10 years the Environment Department has covered citizens education in the area of ecology in its yearly Program of preserving the environment that are developed and realized in partnership with environment non-government organizations and student ecology clubs. Main part of the program is working with local media aiming to increase the level of information spread in society. An active part in the dialog between municipality and citizens plays the newly formed Municipal Environment Center.

For the first time in the modern history of the Town of Dobrich, Mayor s administration, municipal council and media realized a project for extended citizens participation in the local self-government through taking part in Municipal Council sessions. The main goal of the project was to enable citizens to take active part in the life of the municipality management.

The implementation of the Plan for positive joint action of the police and ethnic groups in Razgrad provided the framework of public relations between for the two parties. The key to success lies in principle of partnership between police and community leaders, citizen control and respect for human rights.