Nowadays social and economic issues can have unfavourable consequences; social problems
both at the global and local level are outstanding and it is essential to find solutions
because of the efficient functioning of the economy and the society. Also, state and
for-profit actors can take part in solving these problems, but there are lots of services
which can be provided only by civil organizations. The first part of the paper presents
the concept of civil organizations and current issues of them in Hungary. After that,
it describes the way of their contribution to the active citizenship and to social
well-being based on theoretical and empirical background. We made a questionnaire
research in 2013 among civil organizations at the regional level in Hungary; we would
like to show the main results of it. This paper presents a review of the main participatory
forms of the organizations through which they can contribute to the improvement of
the services and to the expanding of the supply. An important message of the paper
is that civil organizations cannot operate without active citizens, our study will
also show the methods how civil organizations can contribute to the active citizenship
and what kind of elements and barriers have this process. This paper can add to the
literature of the civil organizations and can be useful both for policy makers, researchers
and citizens.
