Standards 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.
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How 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 MoreLocal citizens' assemblies in England
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This video follows the story of three participants in three local citizens' assemblies that took place during 2019 in England, showing the process and impact of citizens' assemblies through participants' eyes.
Read MoreLocal Initiatives Support Program in Russia
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A paper by the World Bank that evaluates the impacts of participatory budgeting programs implemented through Russia's Local Initatives Support Program (LISP).
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 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 MoreUnderstand Grenoble's participatory budget
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Video about the first PB process in Grenoble, France in 2015.
Read MoreParticipatory budgeting: Spreading across the globe
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This report sums up the current state of our understanding of PB. It focuses on several important aspects of PB and how it has evolved in the past twenty years, including conditions for implementation, impacts, and the role of technology, with an emphasis on the Global South.
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 draw in politics
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A guide for using random selection in processes involving citizen participation.
Read MoreLocal Initiatives Support program in Yakutia
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A video featuring highlighting from the first year of the Local Initiatives Support Program in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia, that implements PB with the support of the World Bank.
Read MoreInvitation to a debate: Sortition
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A paper proposing the creation of "sortition chambers" on all administrative levels — from a chamber at the same level as the present-day Spanish Congress and Senate down to sortition chambers for each municipality.
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