25 questions on initiative budgeting

An introduction to initiative budgeting, a type of participatory budgeting predominantly practiced in Russia.

This resource introduces and expands on initiative budgeting (IB) in Russia, how it works, its impacts, and how it can be implemented. It discusses IB's origins in the emergence of participatory budgeting and details how it has been implemented in Russia and its mechanisms, in a broad sense. It also covers how it can be implemented at the municipal level.

Source: International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (IOPD)
Author information: Vagin, V; Timokhina, E; Gavrilova, N; Shapovalova, N; Fenin, A; and Antsyferova, I.
Language: English

Year of publication: 2017