Resource Center

A booklet with insights and practical guidance on using Legislative Theater to engage communities and influence policy.

Training session on the basics of participatory budgeting and its planning.

Training session on participatory budgeting criteria, idea generation and proposal development.

Training session on the design of the voting and consensus phase of participatory budgeting.

A video session exploring how to make evaluations meaningful, useful, and effective for improving participatory budgeting.

A training for participatory budgeting delegates or volunteers, focused on the proposal development stage.

A synthesis of discussions on the future, opportunities, and challenges of participatory platforms with a public intent.

A field study of the role of emotions in deliberative processes about climate change, conducted with young children.

An article examining the engagement of ethnic minorities in participatory budgeting.

This KNOCA briefing collates the existing literature to review the impact of the French Climate Citizens’ Convention.

This podcast discusses the roles of artificial intelligence in deliberative democracy and the implications of its use in practice.

This paper discusses the use of public participation in the development, deployment and governance of commercial artificial intelligence systems.

This article explores the use of artificial intelligence in citizens’ assemblies, proposing a framework for the evaluation of benefits and limitations of their application.

This resource from Involve explores ways to practically engage the public in discussions about the governance of artificial intelligence.

A report of key findings on national laws that incorporate a participatory approach to budgeting.

This report evaluates the Global Assembly, a citizens' assembly that brought together 100 citizens from around the world to deliberate the climate and ecological crisis.

An evaluation of deliberative citizens’ assemblies across 15 Western European countries, examining whether these processes can re-engage politically dissatisfied citizens.

An article discussing the value of creating space for value-based deliberation in citizens’ assemblies.

A guide for citizen engagement in local decision-making in Armenia, to enhance democratic governance in the country.

Website with all the info and documents from Estonia’s first climate citizens' assembly, where young people from Ida-Viru County developed recommendations for a just transition to climate neutrality.

A guide providing strategies for Flemish governments to implement participatory budgeting, focusing on transparency, inclusivity, and civic engagement to build public trust.

A manual for participatory budgeting in Ukraine, including theoretical foundations, past experiences in the country, and a step-by-step guide to each stage of the process.

A practice-oriented guide for the design and implementation of participatory budgeting processes, adapted to the Ukrainian context.

A manual for the implementation of participatory budgeting in youth centers in Slovenia, as a way to include more young people in the decision-making and budget allocation of youth organizations.

A guide for the use of different citizen participation mechanisms for urban planning and urban projects in the legal and social context of Spain, and specifically in the Valencian Community.

This resource showcases the state of the art of citizens’ asemblies and opens new perspectives informed by multidisciplinary research and new thinking about deliberative processes.

This document (written in Romanian) includes the methodological details of participatory budgeting experiences implemented in different Moldovan municipalities.

This resource introduces Augusto Boal's methods in Lithuanian, including their history, principles, examples, and practical advice for application.

This document provides an overview of participatory budgeting in Poland, discussing its implementation, benefits, challenges, and historical and legal context.

This document analyzes participatory budgeting as a direct democracy tool in Polish local governments.