How to start a climate assembly
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A four-page, user-friendly guide that provides recommendations on how to start a climate assembly.
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How Cities Can Use Participatory Budgeting to Address Climate Change
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A four-page, user-friendly guide that provides recommendations on how to use participatory budgeting to address climate change.
Read MoreToolkit for youth democratic action
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This toolkit, developed based on participatory budgeting experiences in Chicago schools, aims to make PB easier to implement with teachers and youth in schools across a wide variety of models and contexts.
Read MoreStandards for citizens' assemblies
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A set of draft standards for citizens' assemblies, developed by Involve, organized into “essential” and “desirable” features of ten criteria.
Read MoreHow to run a citizens’ assembly
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A handbook that provides guidance for different stages involved with planning, organizing, and delivering a successful citizens' assembly.
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 MoreParticipatory budgeting toolkit
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A toolkit developed in Scotland for community groups and organizations who are planning to organise a grantmaking PB event.
Read MoreExtinction Rebellion guide to citizens’ assemblies
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This guide provides a general introduction to citizens’ assemblies. It explains what one is, how it works and why we need one. It also outlines the key steps in designing and running an assembly and presents some exciting examples of similar processes from around the globe.
Read MoreClimate assemblies and juries
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This guide aims to support local authorities and other bodies thinking of commissioning a citizens’ assembly or jury. It considers how such processes might address the climate emergency, what is involved and approaches to design and delivery.
Read MoreDos and don'ts on designing for accessibility
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This blog post presents six posters with best practices for making government services accessible to different groups of users: low vision, D/deaf and hard of hearing, dyslexia, motor disabilities, users on the autistic spectrum and users of screen readers.
Read MorePrinciples for community empowerment
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A briefing document by Audit Scotland on community empowerment in Scotland, including principles and case studies.
Read MoreBuilding a public culture of economics
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A report that recommends methods to build public trust in economic and public institutions in the UK by incorporating deliberative processes into economic policymaking.
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 MoreManual of participatory budgeting in Cameroon
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A manual for implementing PB in Cameroon, with specific advice for community engagement and mediation.
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.
Read MorePathways through participation
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A report of a research project that explores how and why individuals get and stay involved in different forms of participation and the factors that shape their participation over time.
Read MorePublic participation in budget solutions
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A guide that presents information on how people can influence problem-solving in their municipalities through participatory budgeting.
Read MoreSorted: Civic lotteries
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A report that explains how sortition can lower the barrier to political participation and create a more powerful and direct role for citizens.
Read MoreLegislative Theatre: Augusto Boal
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In this book, Theatre of the Oppressed creator Augusto Boal explains how he created Legislative Theatre, the principles behind it, and how he implemented it in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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