A guide to help you determine if this tool is helpful to you.

2. What is Participatory Budgeting (PB)?

Participatory budgeting takes a portion of a government budget and puts it in the hands of residents to determine how it's spent.

3. What is a Participatory Budget Good for?

There are many community benefits that result from engaging in participatory budgeting.

4. How do I Start a Participatory Budget (PB) Project?

There are several steps to organizing a participatory budgeting event.

5. Participatory Budget Case Studies

5.1. Participatory Budget (PB) Network

Advice on how to approach Partipatory Budgeting (PB).

5.2. The Participatory Budgeting Project

Experiences with Particpatory Budgeting.

5.3. The "Dare to Reimagine: A Vision for Transformative Change" Project

A big city comes together for transformative change.

6. Participatory Budget Exercise

6.1. PB Network

The PB Network based in the UK has quite a few blog posts of residents describing their experiences in participatory budgeting

6.2. Participatory Budgeting Project

Participatory Budgeting Project has produced some case studies, which you can find below the map

6.3. Dare to Imagine

Dare to Imagine have published a case study from New York. It details the experience of setting up PB across the city

6.4. City of Vancouver

In 2018, the City of Vancouver used Participatory Budgeting to gather and implement ideas to improve the west end of the city

7. Additional Resources

7.1. Participatory Budgeting in Schools

A call for youth action.

7.2. We Choose Participatory Budget

Participatory Budgeting in Vancouver.

7.3. Welsh Government Participatory Budgeting Toolkit

A toolkit for Participatory Budgeting.

The "Dare to Reimagine: A Vision for Transformative Change" Project

Finally, still in regard to the case studies presented here, it is opportune for us to mention that three hundred people, elected officials, community partners, and their allies have come together to organize the “Dare to Reimagine: A Vision for Transformative Change” project in New York City. Follow their Participatory Budget (PB) Project across such a big city here:

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