The Participatory Budgeting Project is a non-profit organization that supports participatory budgeting in North America and hosts an international resource site.
PB in Montreal
An article was recently published in the Montreal Gazette on the PB experiment in one of the city's boroughs: http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=2e7df5be-8d2b-4bbd-8c9b-cc71e0285169
More information about the PB process is available in French at http://www.ville.montreal.qc.ca/plateau/budgetparticipatif
PB networking session at WUF
There will be a participatory budgeting networking session at the World Urban Forum in Vancouver:
Date: Wednesday June 20, 2006.
Time: 16:30-18:30
Location: MR 12
Co-organizers: Municipalities of Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre, CIGU from Ecuador and PDM from Harare
