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 MoreThe Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community.
Read MoreThis toolkit provides an overview of participatory democracy practices focused on policy-making, shares the results of a participatory policy-making (PPM) process
Read MoreCOSLA and the Scottish government have announced that Scottish Councils have reached the milestone of spending 1% of their budgets through participatory budgeting (PB) process.
Read MoreThe 1% PB commitment is an agreement between the Scottish Government and COSLA (which represents local authorities in Scotland) that at least 1% of local government budgets should be decided through participatory budgeting.
Read MoreThe National Participatory Budgeting Strategic Group has published a framework for the future of participatory budgeting (PB) in Scotland. The framework sets out shared intentions and ambitions for PB and, looking ahead, outlines a series of priority recommendations to be carried forward.
Read MoreThis resource looks at Participatory budgeting (PB) in schools from a Scottish and international perspective. It presents insights to the common school themes and points towards useful resources for practitioners.
Read MoreA quick guide explaining how PB can be used in schools.
Read MoreGreen PB is a way for people to make direct decisions about how budgets are spent addressing climate change and reducing our carbon footprints.
Read MoreDemocratic Society and Scottish Community Development Centre hosted an exploratory and discovery research project to understand what community digital participatory budgeting could look like for communities in the future.
Read MoreAberdeenshire pupils have been involved in a participatory budgeting process which has seen 27 projects related to climate change and carbon reduction.
Read MoreOn 22 June PB practitioners joined the online Growing PB through Digital Tools workshop to hear from 3 PB approaches which used digital tools to reach out to a wider audience and involve them in budget decisions.
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Last week we brought together PB Scotland members to explore how digital tools are supporting PB activity across Scotland.
The event featured three excellent presentations from Young Scot, Edinburgh Council and Renfrewshire Council - you can watch videos and these informative inputs, and view the learning and knowledge shared, in this event report.
We've also published a new guide which highlights some of the key tools you can use to carry out digital PB in Scotland. From all-in-one platforms to useful individual tools, this guide is a starting point to explore what works best for you.
This resource highlight some useful digital tools which can support a Participatory Budgeting process - from complete solutions to useful individual tools.
Read MoreParticipatory Budgeting and Grant Making is a new FREE SCQF Level 5 online course, worth 3 credits, which aims to support community activists to be involved in national and local decisions on services and budgets.
Read MorePB Scotland are delighted to announce that our first dedicated Green PB Seal has now been issued to the Just Transition Participatory Budgeting Partnership for their recent Green PB Project in the North East of Scotland.
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As participatory budgeting (PB) continues to progress across Scotland, we’re keen to hear from you about the PB activity that’s happening near you, now and in the future.
This short survey will help us understand the types of activity that are going ahead and also some of the key themes and issues emerging from this work.
This will help us plan PB Scotland work and help promote and highlight your activity to other network members.
The Green PB Seal and Green PB Benefits Badge aim to highlight the positive impact participatory budgeting is having on Scotland’s drive to achieve a Just Transition to net-zero by 2045.
Read MoreThe Badges and Seals are being introduced to act as a simple way to recognise where Green PB activity has taken place.
Read MoreThe report details the activity of the group and the overall development of PB activity during the year.
Read MoreParticipatory budgeting in Scotland.
Participatory budgeting (PB) is a way for people to have a direct say in how local money is spent.
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PB Scotland is developed by the
Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC)
with funding from the Scottish Government.
For more information please contact info@pbscotland.scot.
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