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Public voting is now open for this year’s Community Choices, with 57 projects from community and third sector groups across Falkirk District.
The Participative Democracy Certificate (PDC) is a youth award developed by YouthLink Scotland aimed at young people involved in decision making processes.
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.
The City of Edinburgh Council have now been awarded a Green PB Seal for their Green Participatory Budgeting Programme – “The Edinburgh Community Climate Fund” - which was launched in 2023.
Our new Ideas Clinics are collaborative, peer learning spaces to help those working around participatory budgeting (PB) and beyond to come together to share experiences, challenges and ideas.
The National Participatory Budgeting Strategic Group, which was established to help guide the strategic direction for PB in Scotland, has published its annual report for 2022/23.
PKC have used their recent PB to cover a number of topics, looking at cost of living and the climate recently as a small grants PB.
In this article, PB Scotland’s Paul Nelis explores the work of the Ripple Project and Craigentinney Primary school where PB has been used by pupils to set their priorities.
The Rising Stars Mentorship Program connects democracy practitioners with expert guidance to launch and improve participatory programs.
This PB Scotland learning event will be a chance to explore how we fund participatory budgeting (PB) and the learning we're seeing from across Scotland.
We've brought together a mix of news, resources, guides and training around PB and participatory democracy.
We’ve brought together some of the key evaluation resources that are feature on our PB Resources Hub, as well as some examples of real PB processes.
This briefing from GCPH explore things to think about when planning and evaluating a PB project.
This briefing aims to support public sector organisations wishing to evaluate their ‘mainstream’ Participatory Budgeting (PB) initiatives. The techniques outlined here are also applicable to PB grant making programmes.
The toolkit is intended to be user-friendly and helpful for the public sector, the voluntary sector and community organisations running PB activities.
This guidance and the accompanying tools are designed to address the issue of capacity to evaluate, and also to ensure that the evaluation meets local need.
The Improvement Service is hosting a free webinar on Participatory Budgeting for community councillors on Wednesday 15th November from 6pm to 7pm
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.
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.
To help users decide which online participation platform to choose, People Powered have rated the leading options in three categories according to six criteria.
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.
The PB Charter is a set of seven key features showing what a fair and high quality PB process should look like.