This report sums up the current state of our understanding of PB. It focuses on several important aspects of PB and how it has evolved in the past twenty years, including conditions for implementation, impacts, and the role of technology, with an emphasis on the Global South.
Read MoreA guide for using random selection in processes involving citizen participation.
Read MoreA paper proposing the creation of "sortition chambers" on all administrative levels — from a chamber at the same level as the present-day Spanish Congress and Senate down to sortition chambers for each municipality.
Read MoreThis book documents how the Porto Alegre Participatory Budget came into being and how this form of managing public resources was built from the beginning: conflicts, contradictions, difficulties, and solutions that arose in the course of its construction.
Read MoreBook edited by the Paulo Freire Institute that explores themes like citizenship, citzen participation, and social education in relation to participatory budgeting.
Read MoreA report of a research project that explores how and why individuals get and stay involved in different forms of participation and the factors that shape their participation over time.
Read MoreA book edited by Yves Cabannes that discusses the background and challenges of PB processes. It highlights 13 cases of PB around the world, in various contexts and institutions. It also includes recommendations to address challenges with participation.
Read MoreA paper that evaluates and finds that participatory budgeting substancially reduces infant mortality in Brazilian communities, even more so when the programme is institutionalised.
Read MoreA report on the best practices in initiative (participatory) budgeting in Russia for researchers, government officials, and civic activists.
Read MoreAn essay that presents challenges to communicating effectively about sortition, and concrete ways to overcome them.
Read MoreA video explaining a project from two researchers in Switzerland in which they explored drawing lots, a process used throughout history to make political decisions.
Read MoreA report that explains how sortition can lower the barrier to political participation and create a more powerful and direct role for citizens.
Read MoreA study of almost 50 long-form deliberative processes in Canada and Australia that makes the case that adding informed citizen voices to public decision-making leads to more effective policies.
Read MoreAccessible article in The Economist explaining how citizen assemblies work, why they are becoming more popular, and their challenges.
Read MoreA report on the major challenges and needs of participatory budgeting implementers, developed through the PB Exchange, a co-design process with dozens of international experts and practitioners.
Read MoreA toolkit that shares practices gleaned from the inclusive School PB model developed in response to inclusivity challenges students with disabilities face.
Read MoreA report by Yves Cabannes that reviews 15 initiatives that use PB to address climate change adaptation and mitigation. It discusses the contributions, innovations, and challenges of these programs.
Read MoreAn opinion piece from the political right in The Australian newspaper about the Geelong Citizens' Jury.
Read MoreA book about the 30 years of participatory budgeting around the world. It focuses on the international context that enabled PB's international dissemination.
Read MoreA paper that reviews the performance of the Russia Local Initiatives Support Program (LISP) as an instrument to address various needs of the population.
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