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Report on the 2025 Vilnius Citizens' Assembly regarding sustainable mobility recommendations.

This report analyzes "voice insecurity" — when citizens feel their input is ignored by government — and advocates for the use of citizens' assemblies to rebuild trust.

This paper identifies barriers to participation for marginalized groups and proposes concrete methods for ensuring diverse voices within deliberative processes.

This paper explores how citizens' assemblies can be adapted to Africa's diverse contexts by building on indigenous traditions of consensus-building and drawing lessons from real-world experiments.

This paper examines "scaling catalysts", organizations that intentionally drive the expansion of deliberative and participatory practices in their regions.

This paper redefines the concept of "scaling," proposing a five-dimensional framework and analyzing the role of AI in strengthening democratic resilience.

A manual that summarizes years of learning on how social housing providers (housing associations, cooperatives, and councils) can use participatory budgeting

A refreshed 2025 guide aimed at helping local authorities and public bodies in the UK transition from small-scale grant-making to mainstreaming participatory budgeting (PB) as a tool for large-scale service commissioning and investment.

A comprehensive guide and collection of participatory tools designed to help communities and decision-makers in Greater Manchester work collaboratively to design services, shift power, and rebuild trust in local democracy.

This resource features four case studies (Austria, Zimbabwe, UK, and Brazil) that illustrate how legislative theater serves as a powerful tool to bridge the gap between marginalized communities and policymakers.

A pedagogical toolkit and non-formal education program designed for youth, educators, and youth workers to deepen understanding of EU democracy, institutions, and electoral processes.

Detailed two-day schedule and report template for an on-site transnational citizens' dialogue.

A five-part video resource by The People Act documenting the global application of legislative theater as a tool for political advocacy and policy co-creation.

A comprehensive overview of various legislative theater processes across the UK, showcasing how creative participation has led to tangible policy changes in housing, safety, climate, and social inclusion.

An interactive and graphic manual for facilitators (known as "Jokers") who use forum theater as a tool for community building, social activism, and creative advocacy.

An analysis of the different models and structures of local youth councils in Belgium, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, and Portugal, examining their national contexts and specific municipal case studies.

An assessment tool providing concrete indicators to help local youth council members and municipality officers build, reform, or relaunch councils that are more participatory, inclusive, and impactful, including a practical companion manual that explains how to use it.

A 2024 report providing a comparative analysis of the legal frameworks, operational structures, and impact of Local Youth Councils (LYCs) in Estonia, Lithuania, Norway, and Portugal.

A comprehensive resource mapping successful implementations of youth engagement mechanisms at local, regional, national, and international levels.

A comprehensive guide designed to help policymakers and organizations implement, improve, and compare eight different mechanisms for meaningful youth participation.

A specialized guide for combining physical and digital elements ("phygital") to enhance youth engagement in local democracy.

Structured deliberative worksheets for guiding citizen discussions on three key European policy areas.

A multilingual slide template for real-time digital evaluation of transnational citizens' dialogues.

A standardized 11-language evaluation questionnaire for assessing participant experience in on-site citizens' dialogues.

A multilingual slide template with warm-up polling questions for digital citizens' dialogues.

A slide template for breaking the ice and onboarding in multilingual dialogues without translation.

Detailed two-day schedule and report template for an on-site transnational citizens' dialogue.

A Romanian guide for local authorities on implementing good governance and participatory budgeting.

A legal and operational template outlining the tasks and quality standards for third-party recruitment agencies in citizens' dialogues.

A data management tool for tracking demographic quotas during citizen recruitment.