Participatory budgeting
Collaboratively raising and allocating public funds
Suggested reading:
- How to Spend Your City’s Money: In a system known as participatory budgeting, citizens tell the government what to do. The New Yorker
- Take a deeper dive into PB in an entire issue of Local Development & Society dedicated to the topic (free to download until 2025)
Common
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CONSUL DEMOCRACY
The most complete citizen participation tool for an open, transparent and democratic government.
DirectDemocracy
DirectDemocracy is a mobile phone application that enables individuals to propose referendums and participate in voting processes from any location.
Budget Participatif Paris
Décider pour Paris
Budget Participatif, idées citoyennes, et consultations
Civic Trust
Participatory Budgeting empowers communities, amplifies voices, and transforms ideas into action. Partner with Civic Trust to build engaged, thriving cities.
City PB
A PB Platform Built by Civic Trust
Impacts of Participatory Budgeting
This resource highlights 19 key findings on the short- and long-term impacts of participatory budgeting on people, communities, and governments.
Crowdapps
Web apps and solutions for Municipalities & Regions
Orçamento Participativo Digital do Estado do Piauí
O OPA é um instrumento pioneiro que permite à população participar da elaboração do orçamento anual do Estado do Piauí. Através do programa, os cidadãos podem indicar diretamente como desejam que part...
Center on Initiative Budgeting
Проект НИФИ Минфина России – база практик гражданских инициатив по решению вопросов местного значения при непосредственном участии граждан
PB Scotland
Participatory Budgeting Oregon
German Participatory Budgeting Network
People Powered Decides
An annual participatory decision-making program where members vote on budgets, policies, and board selections
AI tools for Decidim
Work in progress AI integration for the participation platform that allows platform admins to install and configure a spam detection service so that any suspicious content gets reported at the earlies...
Pitfalls of Aiming to Empower the Bottom from the Top: The Case of Philippine Participatory Budgeting
Paper by Joy Aceron, 2019. This paper explains why and how a reform program that opened up spaces for participatory budgeting was ultimately unable to result in pro-citizen power shifts that transform...
iD City
Plateforme de démocratie participative
Presupuesto Participativo Raíz
Plataforma de Presupuesto Participativo desarrollada por el Programa Raíz de la Secretaría de Extensión de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
Localwatch
Civic tech participatory platform focusing on local level (municipalities). Kάνε ερωτήσεις και προτάσεις στο Δημοτικό Συμβούλιο, οργάνωσε εθελοντικές δράσεις , συνδιαμόρφωσε τον προϋπολογισμό του Δήμο...
Dalyvauk! Klaipėda
This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.
World Atlas of Participatory Budgeting
The World Atlas of Participatory Budgeting represents the widest compilation of data, to date, on the situation of these processes on the planet.
Fundusz sołecki
Polish law institutionalizing the "Village Fund" form of participatory budgeting, first in rural areas and later required for the 66 largest cities
Dalyvauk! Vilnius
This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.
Dalyvauk! Anykščiai
This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.
Coglobal
Diseñamos y desarrollamos procesos de participación ciudadana
Rosario Participa
Unite, participá y decidí. Todas las acciones de participación en un lugar.
Danes je nov dan
Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.
demokratie.today
Deutschlands Nr. 1 Consul-Anbieter. Consul is the world's most successful platform for citizen participation.
The People's Money
NYC's first citywide Mayoral participatory budgeting process, run by the NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) (2022-2023)
Denver Participatory Budgeting
In the first cycle of Denver's Participatory Budgeting, residents guide the selection of $2 million of neighborhood infrastructure.
L.A. REPAIR
The Los Angeles Reforms for Equity and Public Acknowledgment of Institutional Racism (L.A. REPAIR) is L.A.'s first participatory budget pilot program. L.A. REPAIR will distribute roughly $8.5 million...
City of Sacramento Participatory Budgeting
On June 15, 2021, the Sacramento City Council approved the use of up to $1 million in Measure U funds for residents to propose ideas and vote on project concepts.
Designing Digital Participatory Budgeting Platforms: Urban Biking Activism in Madrid
Investigating the empirical case of urban biking activists in Madrid, we explore how the design of the digital platform Decide Madrid impacted the collaborative practices involved in digital participa...
Decidimos Monterrey
En Monterrey ahora decidiremos juntas y juntos cómo invertir el 5% de la recaudación del pago predial, más de 50 millones de pesos para promover mejoras en tu colonia y en toda la ciudad.
People Powered Global PB Hub
The Global Participatory Budgeting Hub is the initial flagship program of People Powered. It aims to improve and expand participatory budgeting (PB) around the world by addressing common challenges an...
People Powered
People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy - the direct participation of community members in making the policy decisions that affect their lives.
NYC Civic Engagement Commission Decidim platform
A space to enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City
Site OpenPB
This site is an effort of City of Paris to provide a budgetparticipatif.paris-like website to help other cities to get their own participatory budgeting process.
Citizink
citizink es una plataforma de participación creada con tecnologías de código abierto
Discuto
Online collaboration, discussion & consensus. For institutions, organisations & groups.
Oficina
Planning and participatory democracy consultancy out of Portugal that also publishes books about participatory budgeting
Participace 21
Czech participatory engagement platform for towns, villages, schools, and non-profits (and NYC's participatory budgeting)
BiPart
Italian company offering services and projects to engage the public in decision-making
Maptionnaire Community Engagement Platform
Stop Guessing. Start Community Mapping.
OmaStadi
Helsinki's Decidim instance used for participatory budgeting
How Cities Can Use Participatory Budgeting to Address Climate Change
People Powered's course for government and organization staff managing citizen participation + environmental programs
Бюджет участі
Participatory budgeting platform in Ukraine
Abre Tu Muncipio
Digital platform and methodology to open local governments. Powered by CONSUL.
adhocracy+
Makes digital democracy easy - for everyone no matter where.