In 2021, the public initiative Klimaneustart Berlin collected over 30,000 signatures for a petition to the Berlin House of Representatives calling for a citizens’ assembly on climate, which resulted in the creation of the Berlin Climate Citizens' Council.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreThis resource showcases participatory processes implemented with the aid of the Decide Madrid digital platform, including participatory policymaking and participatory budgeting.
Read MoreThis tool makes it easier to perform stratified random selection.
Read MoreThis toolkit, in Bulgarian, provides step-by-step guidance to lead a participation process at school.
Read MoreLATINNO is the first comprehensive and systematic source of data on new institutions for citizen participation evolving in Latin America — so-called democratic innovations.
Read MoreParticipatory budgeting began in Porto Alegre, Brazil in the early 1990s and spread around the world, but its use has since declined in Brazil. This paper examines the causes for this change.
Read MoreThis practical guidance is for policy officials who are thinking about organising a climate assembly.
Read MoreThis guide is designed to help groups and organizations implement participatory budgeting (PB) internally, with members, staff, partners, donors, and other organizational stakeholders.
Read MoreThis website provides information and resources about green participatory budgeting (PB), a way for people to make direct decisions about how budgets are spent addressing climate change and reducing carbon footprints.
Read MoreThis manual discusses the 10 steps of participatory budgeting (PB), drawing on Kenyan county examples to illustrate the practical application of the steps.
Read MoreA video about participatory budgeting in Kenya.
Read MoreA user manual for facilitating Participatory Budgeting in Kenya developed by Fahamu which seeks to adapt and localize existing models of participatory budgeting to ensure that the focus is "people centred" as opposed to "structure centered".
Read MoreThis report describes the Participatory Budgeting approach adopted by Makueni and West Pokot counties (Kenya). It seeks to provide detailed information on the step by step process that the two counties have adopted and describes the support provided by the Kenya Participatory Budgeting Initiative.
Read MoreThis resource from the World Bank examines the potential and perils of participatory budgeting, as observed from practices around the globe.
Read MoreThe Global Assembly, which is made up of 150 organisations from over 50 countries around the world, aims to create a permanent global citizens’ assembly on the climate crisis and has been co-designed with institutions, scientists, citizens and social movements.
Read MoreThis paper looks at two climate change vulnerability assessments (CCVA) processes in Indonesia, one that was deployed in the cities of Semarang and Bandar Lampung, and another implemented in Manado and Makassar.
Read MoreA website with information on the Baan Mankong "Secure House" collective housing programme which puts slum residents at the centre of decisions on housing, environment, basic services and tenure security, as well as other long-term development issues.
Read MoreThe final report of the Citizens' Jury on Nuclear Waste in South Australia, an ambitious public deliberation under the imprimatur of the Premier of South Australia, Jay Weatherill.
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