The paper’s authors study several opportunities and challenges in ensuring a transparent activity of local government in the village of Izvoare, Făleşti district, between the years 2016-2018. In 2016, the local council and the Mayor’s office in Izvoare, Făleşti district took no steps whatsoever in consulting their citizens. In this situation, an opportunity for enhancing the transparency for the local council was to work together with civil society organizations, namely with the Izvoare Civic Group. Under the Civic Group’s pressure, an Internal Regulation for Citizen Participation Bureau was developed and implemented, two citizen satisfaction polls are carried out each year, and in the year 2018 the number of citizens that are involved in the decision-making process has doubled. This allows us to draw the conclusion that, although Izvoare council has not become much more transparent, the Izvoare Mayor’s office definitely became more transparent, as a result of civil society pressure.