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Collaboratively raising and allocating public funds
Suggested reading:
- How to Spend Your City’s Money: In a system known as participatory budgeting, citizens tell the government what to do. The New Yorker
- Take a deeper dive into PB in an entire issue of Local Development & Society dedicated to the topic (free to download until 2025)
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The effect of ruling party change and party ideology on participatory budgeting stability: Survivors and victims of local elections
Spain (España) 🇪🇸This study addresses one of the most frequently cited explanations for PB’s instability: changes in the ruling party.
Connect with aligned organizations and funders building a new economy together
CONSUL DEMOCRACY
AmsterdamThe most complete citizen participation tool for an open, transparent and democratic government.
DirectDemocracy is a mobile phone application that enables individuals to propose referendums and participate in voting processes from any location.
Décider pour Paris
ParisBudget Participatif, idées citoyennes, et consultations
Civic Trust
Boulder, COParticipatory Budgeting empowers communities, amplifies voices, and transforms ideas into action. Partner with Civic Trust to build engaged, thriving cities.
This resource highlights 19 key findings on the short- and long-term impacts of participatory budgeting on people, communities, and governments.
Crowdapps
El. Benizeloy 82, Moschato 183 45Web apps and solutions for Municipalities & Regions
Orçamento Participativo Digital do Estado do Piauí
Teresina, Piauí, BrasilO OPA é um instrumento pioneiro que permite à população participar da elaboração do orçamento anual do Estado do Piauí. Através do programa, os cidadãos podem indicar diretamente como desejam que parte dos recursos públicos sejam investidos em seus municípios.
Center on Initiative Budgeting
Russian Federation 🇷🇺Проект НИФИ Минфина России – база практик гражданских инициатив по решению вопросов местного значения при непосредственном участии граждан
AI tools for Decidim
BarcelonaWork in progress AI integration for the participation platform that allows platform admins to install and configure a spam detection service so that any suspicious content gets reported at the earliest possible step.
An annual participatory decision-making program where members vote on budgets, policies, and board selections
Paper by Joy Aceron, 2019. This paper explains why and how a reform program that opened up spaces for participatory budgeting was ultimately unable to result in pro-citizen power shifts that transformed governance.
Presupuesto Participativo Raíz
Av Cordoba 795 - Floor 8 - (C1054AAG) Buenos Aires, ArgentinaPlataforma de Presupuesto Participativo desarrollada por el Programa Raíz de la Secretaría de Extensión de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
Localwatch
AthensCivic tech participatory platform focusing on local level (municipalities). Kάνε ερωτήσεις και προτάσεις στο Δημοτικό Συμβούλιο, οργάνωσε εθελοντικές δράσεις , συνδιαμόρφωσε τον προϋπολογισμό του Δήμου και πάρε μέρος στις διαβουλεύσεις και στην αξιολόγησή του
Fundusz sołecki
Poland (Polska) 🇵🇱Polish law institutionalizing the "Village Fund" form of participatory budgeting, first in rural areas and later required for the 66 largest cities
Dalyvauk! Anykščiai
Lithuania (Lietuva) 🇱🇹This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.
Dalyvauk! Vilnius
Lithuania (Lietuva) 🇱🇹This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.
World Atlas of Participatory Budgeting
Faro, PortugalThe World Atlas of Participatory Budgeting represents the widest compilation of data, to date, on the situation of these processes on the planet.
Dalyvauk! Klaipėda
Lithuania (Lietuva) 🇱🇹This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.
Coglobal
Spain (España) 🇪🇸Diseñamos y desarrollamos procesos de participación ciudadana
Rosario Participa
Rosario, ArgentinaUnite, participá y decidí. Todas las acciones de participación en un lugar.
Danes je nov dan
LjubljanaLjubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.
demokratie.today
Mühlleite 13, 91465 Ergersheim, GermanyDeutschlands Nr. 1 Consul-Anbieter. Consul is the world's most successful platform for citizen participation.
The People's Money
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)NYC's first citywide Mayoral participatory budgeting process, run by the NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) (2022-2023)
L.A. REPAIR
Los AngelesThe Los Angeles Reforms for Equity and Public Acknowledgment of Institutional Racism (L.A. REPAIR) is L.A.'s first participatory budget pilot program. L.A. REPAIR will distribute roughly $8.5 million directly to nine L.A. City neighborhoods, called REPAIR Zones.
Denver Participatory Budgeting
Denver, COIn the first cycle of Denver's Participatory Budgeting, residents guide the selection of $2 million of neighborhood infrastructure.
Investigating the empirical case of urban biking activists in Madrid, we explore how the design of the digital platform Decide Madrid impacted the collaborative practices involved in digital participatory budgeting.
Decidimos Monterrey
MonterreyEn Monterrey ahora decidiremos juntas y juntos cómo invertir el 5% de la recaudación del pago predial, más de 50 millones de pesos para promover mejoras en tu colonia y en toda la ciudad.
NYC Civic Engagement Commission Decidim platform
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)A space to enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City
People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy - the direct participation of community members in making the policy decisions that affect their lives.
The Global Participatory Budgeting Hub is the initial flagship program of People Powered. It aims to improve and expand participatory budgeting (PB) around the world by addressing common challenges and opportunities faced by PB implementers and supporters.
Site OpenPB
ParisThis site is an effort of City of Paris to provide a budgetparticipatif.paris-like website to help other cities to get their own participatory budgeting process.
Empatia Project
Centro de Estudos Sociais Colégio de S.Jerónimo Largo D. Dinis Apartado 3087 3000-995 Coimbra, PortugalThe EMPATIA platform has developed and integrated a number of digital and non digital tools that can support the design, implementation and evaluation of complex participatory systems.
Citizink
Málaga (Spain)citizink es una plataforma de participación creada con tecnologías de código abierto
Discuto
Amtsgasse 13aOnline collaboration, discussion & consensus. For institutions, organisations & groups.
Oficina
OFICINA Association, Estrada Senhora da Saúde, 32A, 8000-500 FaroPlanning and participatory democracy consultancy out of Portugal that also publishes books about participatory budgeting
Participace 21
Czech Republic (Ceska Republika) 🇨🇿Czech participatory engagement platform for towns, villages, schools, and non-profits (and NYC's participatory budgeting)
BiPart
Italy (Italia) 🇮🇹Italian company offering services and projects to engage the public in decision-making
Stop Guessing. Start Community Mapping.
OmaStadi
HelsinkiHelsinki's Decidim instance used for participatory budgeting
People Powered's course for government and organization staff managing citizen participation + environmental programs
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