Best practices in initiative budgeting

A report on the best practices in initiative (participatory) budgeting in Russia for researchers, government officials, and civic activists.

This publication reviews national experience and best practices in the development of initiative budgeting in Russia in 2018. It analyzes various practices to involve citizens in budgeting through proposing and selecting initiatives to be financed, and subsequent monitoring of project implementation. The data was collected from an official survey conducted by the Russian Ministry of Finance. The report may be of interest to a wide range of readers: researchers, government officials, specialists in initiative budgeting development and other practices of citizen participation, civic activists, and all those who are interested in democratic processes taking place in local communities in Russia.

Source: Ministry of Finance Russia

Year of publication: 2019