Citizen participation: Best practices
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A toolkit providing an overview of citizen engagement styles and strategies, drawing from case studies on citizen participation initiatives in the Americas and the Caribbean.
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Participatory budgeting in global perspective
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A book on participatory budgeting that explores its origins and theory of change, and defines the different types of program methodologies and how they work.
Read MorePeople-led innovation: Methodology for solving urban problems
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A guide presenting a flexible approach to engage people in addressing public challenges in urban settings.
Read MoreOGP national handbook 2022: Rules and guidance
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A handbook on the open government process, in line with Open Government Partnership (OGP) standards.
Read MoreCitizen sensing: A toolkit
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A toolkit providing best practices and guidance on citizen sensing, a participatory approach to data collection and community-led action.
Read MoreCitizen participation on complex issues: Experiences from development work
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This report presents case studies of citizen participation across 10 Swedish municipalities and provides a model for designing citizen participation for social change, primarily at the local and regional government level.
Read MoreBrazilian democracy can count on the strength of citizen deliberation
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A report on a series of deliberative minipublics run by the Decidania program in Brazil.
Read MorePlacemaking for democracy: Community toolkit
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Useful tools for workshops and activities at every stage of planning, designing and facilitating a community-led placemaking process with citizens.
Read MoreManual for the implementation of youth participatory budgeting
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This guide introduces youth participatory budgeting, detailing the stages of design and implementation and the conditions necessary for a successful process.
Read MoreInnovation kit: Practical tools for promoting public innovation
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A toolkit to promote public innovation in policy administration, with a focus on citizen-centered design.
Read MorePractical guide for the development of local participatory budgeting
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A short handbook on designing and managing municipal-level participatory budgeting (PB).
Read MoreCitizens’ assembly websites: Practical guidance
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A short handbook on designing websites for citizens' assemblies.
Read MoreParticipatory budgeting experience in Meilan (Haikou), China
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An article discussing the pilot participatory budgeting program launched by the government of Meilan District in Haikou City between 2016 and 2017.
Read MoreEnabling national initiatives to take democracy beyond elections
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A handbook on planning and designing a citizens' assembly or jury.
Read MoreI look forward to new changes: Let's give Xindian a better future
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This short documentary presents a local participatory budgeting (PB) process in Taiwan.
Read MoreThe rise and fall of "participatory budgeting": The Porto Alegre story
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This article discusses the origin and process of participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Read MoreBuilding youth voice: a participatory budgeting toolkit
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This resource provides guidance, methods and tools for designing and organizing participatory budgeting (PB) for young people, particularly aimed at teachers working in schools and educational institutions.
Read MoreYouth participatory budgeting: do-it-yourself manual
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A ready-to-use practical toolkit for organizing participatory budgeting (PB) for young people, aimed at teachers working in schools and other educational institutions.
Read MoreFraming the remit: Research note
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This guide goes into detail on how the question in a deliberative process, such as a citizens' assembly or jury, should be framed.
Read MoreHow to run a citizens’ assembly
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This guide covers each stage of organizing a citizens' assembly, drawing on case studies from the Innovation in Democracy Programme, which supported three local governments in the United Kingdom to run assemblies in their local area.
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