Evelyn O'Donnell

Glasgow City Council | Glasgow, United Kingdom

Evelyn works in Community Empowerment Services at Glasgow City Council’s Chief Executive’s Department where she has lead responsibility for the development of participatory budgeting (PB) in collaboration with Glasgow’s communities, elected members, third sector organisations and national PB partners to co-produce Glasgow’s PB strategy. Evelyn's current work involves leading on mainstream and digital PB within the council's departments, council family and community planning partners. Evelyn works at a national level on a range of PB practitioners groups to share learning, develop skills, promote good practice and develop our national PB efforts together in a small country with 32 local authorities.  Evelyn also works with the PB Working Group, and recently took part in national developments of  the next iteration of the Local Governance Review. Evelyn is a qualified International Association of Public Participation (IAP2) practitioner and has experience of facilitating Citizens Panels and deliberative PB processes. She passionately believes people have the fundamental, basic human right to participate equally in decision-making processes.