Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and the New York City Council announced the voting results and winning proposals of the 2015-2016 Participatory Budgeting cycle. During the voting period of March 26th through April 3rd, over 67,000 New Yorkers voted to allocate $38 million dollars for locally developed capital projects across 28 Council Districts in New York City…. Read More
International
What's happening in Participatory Budgeting internationally
Seattle’s $700,000 youth focussed Participatory Budgeting
Youth Voice, Youth Choice is a Participatory Budgeting (PB) process in which Seattle youth will democratically decide how to spend $700,000 of the City’s budget. This initiative began here in July 2015 when Seattle Mayor Murray and former Councilmember Nick Licata announced the launch of a citywide youth PB process. Youth Voice, Youth Choice is… Read More
Child-Participatory Budgeting: Good Practice Review
Plan International and the Centre for Children’s Rights at Queen’s University Belfast are conducting a global review of good practice for involving children and young people in participatory budgeting processes. This study includes an online survey and a small number of case studies in different countries and regions around the world. The study examines the… Read More
Participatory Budgeting, Democratisation and Open Government: The State of the Art in Europe and UK
Participatory Budgeting, Democratisation and Open Government: The State of the Art in Europe and UK. There will be a gathering of the PB Network and its partners, the Empatia programme and Brunel University London, on: Thursday 2nd June 2016, from 1.30pm until 6.30pm. Register here for your free place The PB dialogue is taking place… Read More
Boston Youth Leads the Change: Come for Pizza, stay for the power.
The PB Network has been reporting on innovations in Participatory Budgeting, and so we are pleased to read this update on Boston Youth Leads the Change on the Guardian Newspaper’s Cities webpages. As reported by Sandra Larson on the 31st March 2016: "When the city of Boston gave teenagers the power to allocate a million… Read More
Participatory Budgeting awareness grows in Russia
We often report on PB internationally, but until now there seems to have been little awareness of PB in one of the largest countries in the world. However it seems times are changing. We increasingly pick up items from Russia such as an interview with Ilya Sokolov, director of the Budget Policy Department at Russia’s… Read More
The New York City Participatory Budgeting Rap
View the New York PB rap, produced in 2012, with music by Drew King, and created by the International Studies Film Collective – Marymount Manhattan College
Chicago Participatory Budgeting produces its own online rule book
Chicago was the first significant participatory budgeting programme in the USA. Under the guidance of Alderman Joe Moore, who was also a participant on a learning exchange to the UK in 2013 that spurred on new PB work in Scotland it has expanded and become more structured, and there is now a well developed website… Read More
Call for Participatory Budgeting to expand to the whole of New York
We have reported a few times on the grow of Participatory Budgeting in New York, from relatively modest beginnings in four districts, spending around $4m dollars, to over half the city with an annual budget closer to $32m. In a new article from the Gotham Gazette the author and contributors ask why it doesn’t now… Read More
How do we know our participatory budgeting is working? Measure it!
A shared language to evaluate PB processes. That was the goal. How best to compare and contrast, and also validate the effectiveness of participatory budgeting(PB) has been addressed in the USA through a new research programme. There are many measures of success in PB but with the release of 15 key metrics for PB evaluation… Read More