Riga residents will be able to vote on 49 project ideas they submitted, with up to 12 potentially receiving funding, public broadcaster LSM reported. The city has set aside more than 2.8 million euros for this year’s participatory budgeting competition, its largest allocation so far. The proposal…

CIDNY is hosting Idea Generation Workshops for this year's NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) The People’s Money participatory budgeting process! Join other New Yorkers like you to help decide ho...

Several spaces for children’s leisure activities have been created in the Vidzeme region through participatory budgeting, LSM reported. The scheme allows residents to submit projects and vote on which ones should be implemented, while municipalities are responsible for carrying them out. Particip…

🔙 Looking back at where it all began. Over 180 Spottiswoode Park residents came together for the Community Launch of Singapore's first Participatory Budgeting (PB) pilot. In partnership with Grassroots Adviser Foo Cexiang, the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) and Tanjong Pagar Town Council, residents were briefed on the PB process and embarked on a Discovery Walk — exploring six potential sites for renewal, exchanging ideas, and imagining what their neighbourhood could become. What followed over the next three months was a resident-led journey — from 162 ideas submitted, to feasibility reviews, to a community exhibition and selection exercise in July. Watch the highlights from the day that kicked it all off. ▶️ The PB pilot complements the estate's Neighbourhood Renewal Programme (NRP), with up to $200,000 drawn from the Future Ready Society Impact Fund for residents to allocate toward community infrastructure projects of their choice. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IPSLKYSPP Twitter: https://twitter.com/IPS_sg Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ips_sg/ IPS Website: https://lkyspp.nus.edu.sg/ips

During a lengthy public comment period, many Worcester residents urged a charter review to address concentrated administrative power, push for a strong-mayor option, create participatory budgeting and establish a civilian review or inspector-general role.

The global diffusion of participatory budgeting (PB) has attracted scholarly attention, particularly regarding how PB is institutionalised across different contexts. This article argues that instituti...

Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a democratic process that empowers community members through civic engagement to decide how to spend part of a public budget. PB was first developed in Brazil in 1989 and is now used in over 1,500 cities around the world.

Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a democratic process that empowers community members through civic engagement to decide how to spend part of a public budget. PB was first developed in Brazil in 1989 and is now used in over 1,500 cities around the world.

Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a democratic process that empowers community members through civic engagement to decide how to spend part of a public budget. PB was first developed in Brazil in 1989 and is now used in over 1,500 cities around the world.

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