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Porto Alegre’s Participatory Budgeting at a Crossroads
Mike Fox recently published an update in NACLA on the situation of participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre:
"Porto Alegre’s Participatory Budgeting at a Crossroads"
http://nacla.org/node/4566
UK releases draft national participatory budgeting strategy
The UK Secretary of Communities and Local Government has released a draft national participatory budgeting strategy, and is now seeking feedback on the plan.
See http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/communities/participatorybudgeting
The plan adopts a fairly strong definition of participatory budgeting: "Participatory budgeting engages people in taking decisions on the spending priorities for a defined public budget in their local area. This means engaging residents and community groups to discuss spending priorities, make spending proposals, and vote on them, as well giving local people a role in the scrutiny and monitoring of the process."
The strategy also includes a few case studies and models of PB, and proposals for launching pilot programs, with the goal of having PB used in every local authority by 2012.
Participatory Budgeting in New York
The PB Project is proud to serve as the lead technical assistance partner for a new $6 million PB process in four New York City Council districts.
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