In this short book, Participatory Budgeting Project co-founder Josh Lerner provides a concise history of the organization's origins and its vision, highlighting its real-world successes in fostering grassroots budgeting campaigns in cities like New York, Boston, and Chicago.
Read MoreThis blog post presents a case study from rural Scotland, in which community members were given decision-making power over a public procurement process.
Read MoreA guide created by the City of Madrid, Spain to help residents understand the administrative steps and procedures between the approval of a project proposal and its implementation.
Read MoreA book providing a comparative analysis of innovative democratic practices, including popular assemblies, mini-publics, direct legislation, and e-democracy.
Read MoreThis essay examines several participatory experiences involving children and young people in Spain, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, and Argentina.
Read MoreA guide to using digital tools in citizens' assemblies, with practical examples and links to different options.
Read MoreThis article presents the key findings of a study from Spain on the benefits of discussing democracy in the classroom.
Read MoreThis report presents and analyzes the experience of six Indonesian cities in Indonesia in managing local participatory budgeting processes.
Read MorePhotos of participants in different stages of the participatory budgeting process of the Faculty of Political Science of the National University of Rosario in Argentina.
Read MoreThis toolkit provides instructions and worksheets to plan a participatory budgeting process.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreA case study of legislative theater in Mulhouse, France.
Read MoreA booklet documenting the use of legislative theater by Smes, a Belgian civil society organization focused on mental health and social inclusion.
Read MoreA collection of videos from the 2016 legislative theater festival in Mulhouse, France.
Read MoreThis website provides guides and tools in French to help practitioners successfully facilitate community meetings.
Read MoreA guide to plan and execute effective outreach campaigns for participatory budgeting processes.
Read MoreThis report evaluates participatory budgeting programs in Kenya and provides recommendations to improve how the programs function.
Read MoreA guide for using participatory data collection to develop a disability-inclusive city profile, based on a process in Solo, Indonesia.
Read MoreThis toolkit provides practical guidance on how to use participatory budgeting to maximize the community benefits of Tax Increment Financing.
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