People Powered

We build the power and impact of organizations and leaders around the world who are building a more participatory democracy, through programs such as participatory budgeting, participatory policy-making, participatory planning, and citizen assemblies. We’re like a global union for participatory democracy workers. We began to grow the organization in 2019, launching a Global Participatory Budgeting Hub as a fiscally sponsored initiative of the Participatory Budgeting Project, a nonprofit organization in the United States. In 2020, 58 participatory democracy leaders from 28 countries engaged in a planning process to build out the Global PB Hub into a new and broader organization. They decided on the mission, vision, values, and commitments below, along with our name and work priorities.