The PB Charter for Scotland: Making good PB happen
/The PB Charter is a set of seven key features showing what a fair and high quality PB process should look like.
Read MoreEvaluating our PB practice: A resource to support PB learning and evaluation→
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This resource aims to support PB practitioners to develop and improve evaluation practices. It’s web-based, easy to use and will support practice at all stages.
Read More8 Steps to Delivering a Successful Small Grants PB Process
/In this article, we’re going to set out the basic steps of how to run a successful small grants PB process – and share links to some useful resources and tips.
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Guide to Evaluating the Wellbeing impacts of Participatory Budgeting
/This new guide and toolkit reflects on recent experiences of Participatory Budgeting (PB) within the Gwent area of Wales, from early 2020 to January 2023.
Read MoreDigital Platform Ratings
/To help users decide which online participation platform to choose, People Powered have rated the leading options in three categories according to six criteria.
Read MoreGuide to Digital Participation Platforms
/This guide explains key features of these civic-tech tools, shares lessons learned from users around the world, suggests best practices, and offers several practical resources to guide selection and implementation.
Read MoreParticipation Playbook
/The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community.
Read MoreParticipatory Policy-Making Toolkit
/This toolkit provides an overview of participatory democracy practices focused on policy-making, shares the results of a participatory policy-making (PPM) process
Read MoreGreen PB in Scotland→
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Green PB is a way for people to make direct decisions about how budgets are spent addressing climate change and reducing our carbon footprints.
Read MoreNew Digital Participation Resource launches
/A new resource from People Powered takes you through each step of developing digital tools for your participatory budgeting project.
Read More2020/21 PB World Atlas published
/Oficina has published the latest Participatory Budgeting World Atlas, a detailed summary of where and how PB is taking place across the globe.
Read MoreGuide on digital participation in Europe
/Dutch organisations ‘Democratie in Actie, ‘Netwerk Democratie’ and the Like! project have developed a guide on local practices of digital participation in Europe.
Read MoreAyrshire Participatory Budgeting Toolkit
/The toolkit takes groups through all aspects of running a PB process, and includes useful example forms, flyers and evaluation sheets.
Read MoreBudgeting for Equality - a vital contribution to PB from disabled people
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This report from Glasgow Disability Alliance (GDA) highlights the experiences and views of disabled people in relation to having their voices heard in decision making processes.
Read MoreVoting systems for PB: Making your choice
/Here Paul Nelis reflects on his discussion with Ullapool Community Trust about the voting options available to them as they plan for their participatory budgeting event. It seems like there are as many variations in voting as snowflakes on a winters day.
Read MoreCHARTER OF QUALITY FOR PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING IN PORTUGAL
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The creation of a Charter of Quality for Participatory Budgeting in Portugal, based on thirteen principles.
Read MoreForms of Mini-publics: An Introduction to deliberative innovations in democratic practice
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A paper introducing a range of democratic innovations known as ‘mini-publics’.
Read MoreHear the Voice, Make the Change: Guide to evaluating PB processes
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This comprehensive guide from PB Partners lays out 10 essential actions to record, monitor and evaluate the impact of a PB programme.
Read MorePB scoping toolkit
/This toolkit, developed by the US-based Participatory Budgeting Project, provides an introduction to PB.
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