Mainstreaming participatory budgeting

A policy briefing that outlines key strategic decisions for designing and implementing PB, lessons learned and opportunities identified, and challenges to move to Mainstream PB.

A policy briefing that outlines key strategic decisions for designing and implementing PB, lessons learned and opportunities identified, and challenges to move to Mainstream PB. 

This policy briefing reviews how participatory budgeting (PB) has become central to advancing three policy agendas in Scotland – public service reform, community empowerment and social justice – and examines the requirements to mainstream PB including the co-production of new systems, new mindsets and ways of working.

Source: What Works Scotland

Year of publication: 2018