Citizens' assembly in Valjevo: Air pollution
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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.
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Guide for #ClimateOfChange Campaigners
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A guide for the development of a climate justice campaign, including different methods, tools, activities, and materials to engage youth in climate issues.
Read MoreGuide to preparing municipal citizen participation plans
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This guide helps Spanish municipalities plan citizen participation to achieve more democratic, legitimate and socially beneficial municipal management.
Read More25 questions on initiative budgeting
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An introduction to initiative budgeting, a type of participatory budgeting predominantly practiced in Russia.
Read MoreLegislative theater: Animated presentation
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A brief video introduction to legislative theater and some examples of how it has been used in policymaking.
Read MorePermanent citizenship for political advocacy
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A book discussing the risks of political participation to citizens in Colombia, and theoretical concepts and methods to promote political advocacy through the concept of "permanent citizenship."
Read MoreDemocratizing city charters
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A report exploring the use of municipal charters to allow equitable and just community decision-making, through a case study of the City of Boston, United States.
Read MoreCitizen participation in governance: For a strong democratic society
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A report discussing elements and guiding principles of citizen participation and how it can be embedded into decision-making.
Read MoreCitizen participation on complex issues: Experiences from development work
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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.
Read MoreParticipatory budgeting: How to give local people a voice in funding decisions
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A short video that explains how participatory budgeting works.
Read MoreThe rise and fall of "participatory budgeting": The Porto Alegre story
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This article discusses the origin and process of participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Read MoreBuilding youth voice: a participatory budgeting toolkit
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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.
Read MoreFraming the remit: Research note
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This guide goes into detail on how the question in a deliberative process, such as a citizens' assembly or jury, should be framed.
Read MoreKlimaneustart Berlin: Public initiative
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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.
Read MoreIntroduction to Participatory Budgets
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This four-part course in French introduces different stages of the participatory budgeting process and case studies in France, Brazil, Portugal, Italy, and Scotland.
Read MoreDemocratizing financing through PB
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This toolkit provides practical guidance on how to use participatory budgeting to maximize the community benefits of Tax Increment Financing.
Read MoreThe limits of participatory democracy
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A research paper that presents the current state of participatory democracy, civil society organizations, and emerging informal politics in South Africa.
Read MoreGet Out The Vote (GOTV) experiment
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A research paper that presents findings on how the non-partisan voter mobilization impacts the popular vote in Brazil.
Read MoreOcupar la Política (Occupy Politics)
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A video about ''Ocupar la Política,'' a program of Exituto de Política Abierta that aims to create political campaigns where candidates can develop a direct link with citizens to build a collective vision of their cities.
Read MoreBuilding a people's budget
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A draft research and evaluation report on the 2013-2014 Participatory Budgeting Process in Chicago.
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