This resource showcases the state of the art of citizens’ asemblies and opens new perspectives informed by multidisciplinary research and new thinking about deliberative processes.

The playbook provides guidance on engaging with climate assemblies to influence climate policy effectively, emphasizing public participation and accountability.

A brief video introduction to legislative theater and some examples of how it has been used in policymaking.

A toolkit providing an overview of citizen engagement styles and strategies, drawing from case studies on citizen participation initiatives in the Americas and the Caribbean.

A short guide on designing and launching a communications campaign.

A video and report on the process and proposals from Poland's citizens' assembly on energy costs, organized by the Shipyard Foundation, which took place between September and December 2022.

A report on a series of deliberative minipublics run by the Decidania program in Brazil.

Useful tools for workshops and activities at every stage of planning, designing and facilitating a community-led placemaking process with citizens.

A booklet containing information about school governments in Bogota, Colombia.

This resource provides guidance, methods and tools for designing and organizing participatory budgeting (PB) for young people, particularly aimed at teachers working in schools and educational institutions.

A ready-to-use practical toolkit for organizing participatory budgeting (PB) for young people, aimed at teachers working in schools and other educational institutions.

This research brief offers a global picture of the current state of research on the short- and long-term impacts of participatory budgeting (PB) on people, communities, and governments.

A video of the "Tok tok" initiative in Coutances Mer and Bocage (France), which had the aim was to reach out to young people and their families who live in remote rural areas and don't usually join citizens' participation processes held in the city in order to hear their mobility needs and their proposals for low-carbon solutions.

This resource maps the key steps of participatory policymaking.

This brief video captures the legislative theater process, based on four experiences to address homelessness in the United Kingdom.

This video documents Camden, England's journey to tackle the climate crisis alongside residents through a local citizens' assembly.

This video introduces the use of participatory planning to address environmental vulnerability in Indonesia.

This video features highlights of legislative theatre events that brought community members together to address homelessness in Manchester, England.

This four-part course in French introduces different stages of the participatory budgeting process and case studies in France, Brazil, Portugal, Italy, and Scotland.

The Participatory Budgeting Theory of Change (PB ToC) is a tool that can help researchers and practitioners understand how PB can lead to desired changes for people, communities, and governments.

A toolkit in Spanish to help you plan a participatory budgeting process, including guidance about key actors, virtual and in person processes, the stages of PB, and useful resources.

A toolkit in Spanish to help you plan a citizen consultation, including guidance about key actors, types of consultation, the stages of the process, and useful resources.

A video about the "Make Your Brussels - Mobility" citizens' panel.

A four-page, user-friendly guide that provides recommendations on how to start a climate assembly.

A handbook that provides guidance for different stages involved with planning, organizing, and delivering a successful citizens' assembly.

Video about the PB experience in Portugal, developed by the CES at the University of Coimbra. Video in Portuguese with subtitles in French.

In this 40-minute podcast, Lora Krasteva of Untrained Effort talks to Katy Rubin, one of the world's leading practitioners of Legislative Theatre.

In this book, Theatre of the Oppressed creator Augusto Boal explains how he created Legislative Theatre, the principles behind it, and how he implemented it in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

A practical guide on how to organize a citizens' assembly, with the primary focus on the city level.

A report that explains how Theatre of the Oppressed practices have been applied to raise awareness of pertinent issues of oppression, shift the minds of policymakers, and engage audience members in civic action.

A detailed manual in English, Romanian, Hungarian, Portuguese, Greek and Polish for practitioners interested in using legislative theater in their work.

This guide shares the necessary tools to carry out this form of theater, including materials and step-by-step instructions.

A guide presenting a flexible approach to engage people in addressing public challenges in urban settings.

A video and report on the process and proposals from Poland's citizens' assembly on energy costs, organized by the Shipyard Foundation, which took place between September and December 2022.

This report presents case studies of citizen participation across 10 Swedish municipalities and provides a model for designing citizen participation for social change, primarily at the local and regional government level.

A toolkit to promote public innovation in policy administration, with a focus on citizen-centered design.

A study of the traits and attitudes of over 22,000 internet voters from Rio Grande do Sul during a referendum on state-level spending priorities.

A handbook with practical tools and techniques for participatory processes, primarily aimed at activists and social movements or collectives.

An article on the use of the digital participation platform Polis in Taiwan to build consensus on hot-button political issues.

This resource showcases participatory processes implemented with the aid of the Decide Madrid digital platform, including participatory policymaking and participatory budgeting.

LATINNO is the first comprehensive and systematic source of data on new institutions for citizen participation evolving in Latin America — so-called democratic innovations.

This manual discusses the 10 steps of participatory budgeting (PB), drawing on Kenyan county examples to illustrate the practical application of the steps.

The final report of the Citizens' Jury on Nuclear Waste in South Australia, an ambitious public deliberation under the imprimatur of the Premier of South Australia, Jay Weatherill.

This article examines the origins of legislative theater during Augusto Boal's service as a member of the local parliament in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

This case study details the successes and challenges of a participatory policymaking initiative in Taiwan.

This resource maps the key steps of participatory policymaking.

This article highlights the experience of citizens' assemblies in Gdansk, Poland.

A report on the Citizen's Assembly in Jersey organized in response to the declaration of climate emergency by Jersey’s Parliament in 2019.

Launched in January 2020, Bristol’s first Citizens' Assembly focused on COVID-19 recovery but also examined three topics that had been identified as priorities through the Your City Our Future survey: climate change, health and transport.

An online article on the green corridors in Medellín, Colombia.

This case study analyzes the use of participatory budgeting to address climate change in Lisbon.

This video features highlights of legislative theatre events that brought community members together to address homelessness in Manchester, England.

This webpage looks at participatory budgeting (PB) in schools from a Scottish and international perspective. It presents insights on common school themes and points towards useful resources for practitioners.

Beyond Inclusion: Equity in Public Engagement proposes eight principles to support the meaningful and equitable inclusion of diverse voices in public engagement processes across sectors.

A paper that provides a model of the different levels of citizen participation and involvement in planning processes in the United States.

A video about the "Make Your Brussels - Mobility" citizens' panel.

A research paper that presents the current state of participatory democracy, civil society organizations, and emerging informal politics in South Africa.

A briefing document by Audit Scotland on community empowerment in Scotland, including principles and case studies.

A report that explains how sortition can lower the barrier to political participation and create a more powerful and direct role for citizens.

Blog post about legislative theatre in Greater Manchester with insights into how the play is developed, the role of the facilitator, and the desired outcomes of the process.

Website with all the info and documents from Estonia’s first climate citizens' assembly, where young people from Ida-Viru County developed recommendations for a just transition to climate neutrality.

A guide to involve youth in climate assemblies as a child rights issue, advocating for their participation in decisions affecting their future.

A report presenting the work and recommendations of the Skopje Climate Assembly, the first citzens' assembly to take place in North Macedonia.

The playbook provides guidance on engaging with climate assemblies to influence climate policy effectively, emphasizing public participation and accountability.

A report on Serbia's citizens' assembly in Valjevo, which focused on air pollution, detailing process stages, results, and insights on the potential of such assemblies.

Tartu's first climate assembly, in 2022, engaged 55 randomly chosen residents to propose ways to enhance street safety, reduce pollution, and promote a climate-friendly future.

A model of a citizens' climate assembly developed in the Balearic Islands region in Spain, adapted specifically for a region formed by islands (archipelago).

A guide for the development of a climate justice campaign, including different methods, tools, activities, and materials to engage youth in climate issues.

A complete guide for the design and implementation of citizens' climate assemblies in the Spanish context, providing templates and step-by-step explanation of each of its phases.

An Italian guide for the design and implementation of citizens' assemblies, explaining the main steps, showcasing good practices, and providing the necessary information for their development.

A summary of innovative practices from subnational-level climate juries and assemblies run over the last five years in the United Kingdom.

A toolkit providing best practices and guidance on citizen sensing, a participatory approach to data collection and community-led action.

A report looking at public deliberation in citizens' climate assemblies, with a focus on the Climate Assembly UK, which was the first United Kingdom-wide citizens' assembly on climate change.

In 2021, the public initiative Klimaneustart Berlin collected over 30,000 signatures for a petition to the Berlin House of Representatives calling for a citizens’ assembly on climate, which resulted in the creation of the Berlin Climate Citizens' Council.

This practical guidance is for policy officials who are thinking about organising a climate assembly.

This website provides information and resources about green participatory budgeting (PB), a way for people to make direct decisions about how budgets are spent addressing climate change and reducing carbon footprints.

The Global Assembly, which is made up of 150 organisations from over 50 countries around the world, aims to create a permanent global citizens’ assembly on the climate crisis and has been co-designed with institutions, scientists, citizens and social movements.

This paper looks at two climate change vulnerability assessments (CCVA) processes in Indonesia, one that was deployed in the cities of Semarang and Bandar Lampung, and another implemented in Manado and Makassar.

A report on the Warsaw Climate Panel, a citizens' panel devoted to increasing energy efficiency and the share of renewable energy sources in the city.

A video on the Rybnik360 project, a just-energy transition project focused on phasing out coal in one of the EU’s largest coal-producing regions through the involvement of citizens and city stakeholders.

A video of the "Tok tok" initiative in Coutances Mer and Bocage (France), which had the aim was to reach out to young people and their families who live in remote rural areas and don't usually join citizens' participation processes held in the city in order to hear their mobility needs and their proposals for low-carbon solutions.

The website for the six month long consultation, which lasted from January to June 2021 and was aimed at collecting citizens' views and proposals for policies and projects to address the challenges of the local ecological transition.

The final report of the French Citizens' Convention on Climate held in 2019 and 2020, in which a representative panel of citizens was asked to deliberate on the question “How can France reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent (from the 1990s level) by 2030, in the spirit of social justice?”

This is a press release on the ambitious programme of Île-de-France (Paris Region) entitled "Mobilisation plan for the ecological transformation of Ile-de-France by 2024", which boasts a 10 billion euros budget, meaning that the region devotes 1 euro out of 2 to ecology-related areas.

This report summarises the topline findings of the European Perception of Climate Change Project (EPCC), a study that gives insights into public perceptions of climate change across four major European countries – France, Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom.

This is a website with information on the participatory process in Kessel-Lo, Belgium, that allowed residents to determine what their green public spaces should look like.

A platform with information on Barcelona's "Let's Change for the Climate 2030 Plan" which seeks to promote behavioral changes to help develop more sustainable consumption that strengthens climate action.

A report on the online deliberation of a civic panel chosen through random selection on the future transport system in Turku, Finland.

A report on the Finnish Citizen's jury which discussed the fairness and effectiveness of the national climate measures.

A website with information on the Danish Climate Citizens' Assembly.

Website with all the info and documents from Estonia’s first climate citizens' assembly, where young people from Ida-Viru County developed recommendations for a just transition to climate neutrality.

A manual for the implementation of participatory budgeting in youth centers in Slovenia, as a way to include more young people in the decision-making and budget allocation of youth organizations.

A guide to involve youth in climate assemblies as a child rights issue, advocating for their participation in decisions affecting their future.

A paper presenting methods and strategies for ensuring the inclusion of traditionally underrepresented communities in participatory processes.

A video about participatory budgeting in Kenya.

Beyond Inclusion: Equity in Public Engagement proposes eight principles to support the meaningful and equitable inclusion of diverse voices in public engagement processes across sectors.

A four-page, user-friendly guide that provides actionable recommendations on how to engage immigrants, refugees, and IDPs in PB.

A guide for using participatory data collection to develop a disability-inclusive city profile, based on a process in Solo, Indonesia.

This video shows how residents and civil society organizations can perform gender audits of municipal budgets so that public spending better meets women's needs.

A video about the Participatory Budgeting for Migrant Workers case in the city of Taoyuan, Taiwan.

A report on the results of the implementation of Participatory Budgeting (PB) in 5 cities and 5 amalgamated territorial communities in East Ukraine with the goal of increasing social integration of internally displaced people.

A toolkit that shares practices gleaned from the inclusive School PB model developed in response to inclusivity challenges students with disabilities face.

A series of guidelines that provide the steps to make PB more inclusive for people with disabilities at all its stages.

This report presents findings and recommendations for a PB framework that can reduce inequalities disabled people face, ensure their meaningful participation, and improve life outcomes.

A curated list of online tools that can be used at various stages of the policymaking cycle.

An article on Democracy OS, an open-source platform that aims to promote citizen engagement and transparency in government by allowing people to participate in decision-making and policy formation through online discussions and voting.

This resource showcases participatory processes implemented with the aid of the Decide Madrid digital platform, including participatory policymaking and participatory budgeting.

This case study details the successes and challenges of a participatory policymaking initiative in Taiwan.

This case study of "Montevideo Decide" demonstrates how digital platforms can be used to give people power over local policymaking.

A guide to using digital tools in citizens' assemblies, with practical examples and links to different options.

A report on the use of digital tools to support PB in Scotland, including needs assessment and product analysis.