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Participatory Budgeting

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Participatory Budgeting Background 

 


 

As defined by Wikipedia, Participatory Budgeting (PB) "is a process of democratic deliberation and decision-making, and a type of participatory democracy, in which ordinary people decide how to allocate part of a municipal or public budget. Participatory budgeting allows citizens to identify, discuss, and prioritize public spending projects, and gives them the power to make real decisions about how money is spent."

 

"Participatory budgeting generally involves several basic steps: 

 

  1. Community members identify spending priorities and select budget delegates 
  2. Budget delegates develop specific spending proposals, with help from experts
  3. Community members vote on which proposals to fund 
  4. The city or institution implements the top proposals"

 

The non-profit Participatory Budgeting Project works to support participatory budgeting in North America as well as hosting an international resource site. The Participatory Budgeting Project historical roots grew out of an informal collaboration between PB activists and researchers in the US and Canada, starting in 2005 at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. 

 

The California city of Vallejo was the first example of city-wide Participatory Budgeting in the USA.

 

"In 2012, the Vallejo City Council established the first city-wide Participatory Budgeting (PB) process in the United States. Through PB, the community is helping decide how to spend over $3 million of revenue from the Measure B Sales Tax. Vallejo residents and stakeholders will propose spending ideas and develop project proposals, residents will vote on projects, and the list of projects that receive the most votes will be submitted to City Council for approval."

 

 

Imagine if your city asked its citizens: how would you spend $3.2 million to improve your town?

 

It happened in the city of Vallejo. You may remember this city north of San Francisco once declared bankruptcy. Now it’s better known as a city that asks residents to participate in a process called participatory budgeting. California Forward’s Cheryl Getuiza reports 01/16/2013.

 

Associated Documents 

 

 

 
      • The Guide shows how to get your school working with Participatory Budgeting (PB). The PB process creates an experiential learning environment for community engagement at a local level. Students are challenged to think about community needs and issues, exploring their environment. They are then empowered to design and implement a solution, taking shared ownership of their school community. They will gain a new attachment to their community; a sense of pride that comes from civic contribution. And they will build a stronger, more collaborative relationship with school administration, one another, and the community at large.

      • Diigo TagsParticipatory Budgetingschoolsparticipatory democracycommunity engagementcommunity empowerment

 

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    • Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. Most examples involve city governments that have opened up decisions around municipal budgets, such as overall priorities and choice of new investments, to citizen assemblies. In other cases, states, counties, schools, universities, housing authorities, and coalitions of community groups have used participatory budgeting to open up spending decisions to democratic participation.

    • Diigo Tagsparticipatorybudgetingparticipatory democracy

 

 

 

    • From 2014 to 2015, more than 70,000 residents across the United States and Canada directly decided how their cities and districts should spend nearly $50 million in public funds through a process known as participatory budgeting (PB). PB is among the fastest growing forms of public engagement in local governance, having expanded to 46 communities in the U.S. and Canada in just 6 years.

    • Diigo TagspublicspendingParticipatory Budgetingparticipatory democracypeoplecommunity empowerment

 

 
    • This publication draws on examples of public engagement in city and county budgeting throughout California and describes six general approaches that local agencies use, often in strategic combination, to involve residents in the budget process.

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    • We support public sector and community groups in developing participatory budgeting processes in their local areas within the UK. We are working with the Department for Communities and Local Government in rolling out and supporting their programme of participatory budgeting pilots.

    • Diigo Tagsbudgetingparticipatory

 

 

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