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Participatory budgeting in Scotland.

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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.

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Case study: Merkinch & South Kessock (Inverness): Your Place, Your Point

Funded by Police Scotland, Youth Highland have been working with young people to understand more about their feelings about where they live.

Evaluating our PB practice: A resource to support PB learning and evaluation
Evaluating our PB practice: A resource to support PB learning and evaluation

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.

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National PB Strategic Group publishes 2022/23 annual report

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.

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PB in Schools: Doing Democracy in Craigentinney Primary School

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.

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Learning Event Report: How can we fund PB in Scotland?

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.

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From the Resource Hub: Evaluating participatory budgeting

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.

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Supporting Community- Based Evaluations Of Participatory Budgeting

This briefing from GCPH explore things to think about when planning and evaluating a PB project.

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Hear the Voice, Make the Change: Guide to evaluating PB processes

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.

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Glasgow’s Participatory Budgeting Evaluation Toolkit

The toolkit is intended to be user-friendly and helpful for the public sector, the voluntary sector and community organisations running PB activities.

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Participatory Budgeting Self-Evaluation Toolkit

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.

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8 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.

Participatory budgeting in 60 seconds
Participatory budgeting in 60 seconds

A quick guide to what PB is and how it works.

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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.

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Digital 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.

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Guide 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.

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Participation Playbook

The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community.

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Participatory 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

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What is the 1% local government participatory budgeting commitment?

The 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.

PB Framework - National PB Strategic Group
PB Framework - National PB Strategic Group

The 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.

Evidence and Ideas: A in-depth guide to PB in schools
Evidence and Ideas: A in-depth guide to PB in schools

This 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.

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PB in schools in 60 seconds

A quick guide explaining how PB can be used in schools.

Green PB in Scotland
Green PB in Scotland

Green PB is a way for people to make direct decisions about how budgets are spent addressing climate change and reducing our carbon footprints.

Research: Supporting Community Access to Digital PB Tools in Scotland
Research: Supporting Community Access to Digital PB Tools in Scotland

Democratic 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.

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Aberdeenshire pupils use PB for climate action

Aberdeenshire pupils have been involved in a participatory budgeting process which has seen 27 projects related to climate change and carbon reduction.

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Event report: Growing PB through Digital Tools – 22 June 2023

On 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.

PB Scotland Guide: Digital Tools for PB
PB Scotland Guide: Digital Tools for PB

This resource highlight some useful digital tools which can support a Participatory Budgeting process - from complete solutions to useful individual tools.

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First Green PB Seal Issued! Just Transition Participatory Budgeting Partnership

PB 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.

A new way to recognise Green PB in Scotland
A new way to recognise Green PB in Scotland

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.

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Blog: How we're recognising Scotland Green PB Activity - PB Seal and Benefit Badge

The Badges and Seals are being introduced to act as a simple way to recognise where Green PB activity has taken place.

 

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