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Long Beach’s Youth Power Participatory Budget

In April 2025 young people ages 12-26 who live, work or play in Long Beach, California had the chance to vote on how $550,000 will be spent on a wide range of youth-centered projects, with awarded sums ranging from $10,000…

Have Your Say in Galway City East, Eire

Galway City Council are running a new funding scheme of €25,000 under their newly introduced Participatory Budgeting process. Galway City Council agreed it will designate a percentage of its annual budget for Community Participatory Budgeting. The amount initially determined for…

Resources on international climate themed PB

Yves Cabannes was a leading researcher and practitioner in Participatory Budgeting, and in recent years had been focussing his work on climate themed PB. Over the years he shared with us a number of publications that explore this topic in…

Case study on Cleveland, USA People’s Budget

In 2023, People’s Budget Cleveland launched a historic ballot initiative to direct the City of Cleveland to put aside funds equivalent to 2% of the City of Cleveland’s General Fund each year towards participatory budgeting. While the vote was razor…

Paris PB: Vote until 24th Sept 2024

Paris has established the largest Participatory Budget in Europe. In the 2024 year residents of Paris have again been invited to vote on projects, with voting running until the end of September 2024. Climate and environmental improvements have always featured…

Erasmus+ Youth PB Accelerator Project

We believe that young people should have a voice in shaping their future through participatory democracy. That is why we took part in a joint project, funded by Erasmus+, working with colleagues in Poland, Spain and Northern Ireland. The project created…

Democratic Journeys: Participatory Budgeting in a time of Covid Podcast

The podcast series Democracy Journeys, by the Association of Municipalities and Regions of Sweden (SALAR) is about citizen dialogue, co-creation and democracy at a local and regional level. Each episode focuses on developing democracy and strengthening the relationship between citizens and a municipality or…