The author examines the problem of how to make individuals share responsibility for their own development and the development of their community so as to satisfy their own needs and those of their local community. In this connection she examines the role of adult educator as an animator in local projects. She stresses the importance of establishing new relation ships between local communities and the state, and implementation of what she calls a "structura and policy" for systemic furtherance of local projects. Finally, she dwells upon the role of community-set projects in the perspective of the development of the locality.Dušana Findeisen v tem prispevku obravnava vprašanje, kako spodbuditi ljudi k soodgovornosti za lasten razvoj in razvoj kraja. Preučuje tudi, kako naj prebivalci postanejo soodgovorni za zadostitev lastnih potreb in potreb njihovega kraja. V zvezi s tem se dotakne vloge izobraževalca odraslih - animatorja lokalnih projektov. Poudarja tudi pomen navezovanja novih odnosov in razmerij med lokalnimi skupnostmi in državo ter uvajanje “strukturalne politike”, kot jo imenuje avtorica, za sistemsko pomoč razvoju lokalnih projektov. Nazadnje pa obravnava vlogo lokalnih projektov z vidika razvoja kraja
