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…
RiotFest is a long running music festival in the city of Chicago. As part of its commitment to the community that hosts this largescale but a times disruptive event, it has agreed a generous community payback scheme, in association with…
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…
Extracts from an article from Ramil Abbasov, in Modern Diplomacy magazine, March 2025 “In an era where trust in government is declining and political apathy is on the rise, participatory budgeting (PB) offers a beacon of hope. This democratic innovation…
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…
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…
Across the world and especially in developed countries, there has been a decline in trust in democratic institutions, an increase in political discontent and citizen dissatisfaction, and a resulting decrease in voter turnout. Economic crises, climate disruptions and the COVID-19…
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…
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…
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…