This toolkit, developed based on participatory budgeting experiences in Chicago schools, aims to make PB easier to implement with teachers and youth in schools across a wide variety of models and contexts.
Read MoreA set of draft standards for citizens' assemblies, developed by Involve, organized into “essential” and “desirable” features of ten criteria.
Read MoreA handbook that provides guidance for different stages involved with planning, organizing, and delivering a successful citizens' assembly.
Read MoreThis video follows the story of three participants in three local citizens' assemblies that took place during 2019 in England, showing the process and impact of citizens' assemblies through participants' eyes.
Read MoreA paper by the World Bank that evaluates the impacts of participatory budgeting programs implemented through Russia's Local Initatives Support Program (LISP).
Read MoreThis paper presents comparative case studies about tools for applying participatory budgeting to broader processes of urban planning.
Read MoreA user-friendly guide on PB from the state of Goiás, Brazil.
Read MoreA guide that provides a set of recommendations for PB implementation by local governments in Portugal.
Read MoreA toolkit developed in Scotland for community groups and organizations who are planning to organise a grantmaking PB event.
Read MoreThis guide provides a general introduction to citizens’ assemblies. It explains what one is, how it works and why we need one. It also outlines the key steps in designing and running an assembly and presents some exciting examples of similar processes from around the globe.
Read MoreThis guide aims to support local authorities and other bodies thinking of commissioning a citizens’ assembly or jury. It considers how such processes might address the climate emergency, what is involved and approaches to design and delivery.
Read MoreThis blog post presents six posters with best practices for making government services accessible to different groups of users: low vision, D/deaf and hard of hearing, dyslexia, motor disabilities, users on the autistic spectrum and users of screen readers.
Read MoreA briefing document by Audit Scotland on community empowerment in Scotland, including principles and case studies.
Read MoreA report that recommends methods to build public trust in economic and public institutions in the UK by incorporating deliberative processes into economic policymaking.
Read MoreCharter elaborated by the Portuguese Network of Local Authorities that sets basic paramethers for the quality of PB implementation.
Read MoreVideo about the first PB process in Grenoble, France in 2015.
Read MoreThis 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 MoreAn example of the operating rules of PB, from the city of Macaé, in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil (2010).
Read MoreA guide for using random selection in processes involving citizen participation.
Read MoreA video featuring highlighting from the first year of the Local Initiatives Support Program in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia, that implements PB with the support of the World Bank.
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