Priority 1: A shared understanding of PB
/The Strategic Group recommend the following overarching definition of PB: “participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which citizens decide directly how to spend part of a public budget.
This definition is informed by the features outlined in the PB Charter for Scotland and will be best communicated with appropriate messages developed for different audiences. By ‘a democratic process’ we mean: the process of expressing political rights through decision-making. It must include effective and equal participation, deliberation, and agenda control and we recognise that resources are needed to build capacity for participation.
