Participatory Budgeting via National Law: What Works and What Doesn’t
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A report of key findings on national laws that incorporate a participatory approach to budgeting.
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Thirty years of democratic innovations in Latin America
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A compendium of case studies and trends in public participation in Latin America. These cases showcase how participation can successfully be embedded into institutional structures, facilitating the scaling and strengthening of public participation in Latin America.
Read MoreLegislative theater manual
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A detailed manual in English, Romanian, Hungarian, Portuguese, Greek and Polish for practitioners interested in using legislative theater in their work.
Read MoreCitizen participation: Best practices
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A toolkit providing an overview of citizen engagement styles and strategies, drawing from case studies on citizen participation initiatives in the Americas and the Caribbean.
Read MoreBrazilian democracy can count on the strength of citizen deliberation
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A report on a series of deliberative minipublics run by the Decidania program in Brazil.
Read MoreLATINNO: Innovations for Democracy in Latin America
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LATINNO is the first comprehensive and systematic source of data on new institutions for citizen participation evolving in Latin America — so-called democratic innovations.
Read MoreImpacts of participatory budgeting: what we know
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This research brief offers a global picture of the current state of research on the short- and long-term impacts of participatory budgeting (PB) on people, communities, and governments.
Read MoreJersey's Citizens' Assembly on Climate Change
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A report on the Citizen's Assembly in Jersey organized in response to the declaration of climate emergency by Jersey’s Parliament in 2019.
Read MoreCommunity Action Boards (JACs)
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A Participedia article on the Juntas de Acción Comunal (JACs), which are aimed to help community members in Colombia meet, plan, and discuss ways to develop their community.
Read MorePermanent Participatory Forum Buenos Aires
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A website with information on the Permanent Participatory Forum of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
Read MoreCitizens' Council of Fortaleza
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Read MoreParticipatory Budgeting Theory of Change
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The Participatory Budgeting Theory of Change (PB ToC) is a tool that can help researchers and practitioners understand how PB can lead to desired changes for people, communities, and governments.
Read MoreNational University, Rosario: PB Library
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A collection of research, organization, and management resources related to participatory budgets, mainly in Spanish.
Read MoreArticulation Instrument between Territorial Planning and Participatory Budgeting
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This paper presents comparative case studies about tools for applying participatory budgeting to broader processes of urban planning.
Read MorePopular participation in the public budget
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A user-friendly guide on PB from the state of Goiás, Brazil.
Read MoreParticipatory Budgeting: Dissemination guide
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A guide that provides a set of recommendations for PB implementation by local governments in Portugal.
Read MoreCharter of quality for PB in Portugal
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Charter elaborated by the Portuguese Network of Local Authorities that sets basic paramethers for the quality of PB implementation.
Read MoreInternal rules of participatory budgeting
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An example of the operating rules of PB, from the city of Macaé, in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil (2010).
Read MoreThe power of the village
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This book documents how the Porto Alegre Participatory Budget came into being and how this form of managing public resources was built from the beginning: conflicts, contradictions, difficulties, and solutions that arose in the course of its construction.
Read MoreMunicipal participatory budgeting in Mozambique
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A guide to support the adoption of PB by municipalities in Mozambique, including planning, implementation, and evaluation.
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