Taking into account forms of undertaken social activities, most of all one can distinguish consultations with inhabitants in issues concerning: landscape management, the functioning of health care, culture and sports units, and recently planning the civil budget. Understood as such, social participation is possible due to the access to public information, information flow and the exchange of information between citizens and public authorities/ administration. Participation, in Latin particeps, means taking part, and in English participation taking part by individuals in a larger group, formation, project or institution. Bearing such a meaning, public participation will indicate activities aimed at the participation of citizens, legal subjects and various organizations in public life of a particular community. It ought to be comprehended as the participation in processes of undertaking and fulfilling projects and decisions concerning the development and functioning of a city, borough, residential estate, or even as it is possible in Ukraine, a street. Therefore, public participation may manifest itself in multitude of ways, including public activity, or citizens` involvement, as electoral participation, or obligatory participation. Within social participation develops the participation of citizens in disposing of the budget means to realize tasks referring to the functioning of a city and its administrative units. The opportunity to take part in the process of creating a participation budget strengthens the awareness of each inhabitant of the fact that they can actively participate in managing the issues of their local community. Such a creative opportunity of each citizen`s participation in the selection of aims and means for their achievement influences on the sense of worth, and is an added value to an individual identity, and additionally affects its development. (fragment of text)