Enhancing Fiscal Transparency through Participatory Budgeting in the EU - Related links

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European Parliament

Participatory budgeting; An innovative approach (EPRS, January 2016) 

REPORT on Citizens’ dialogues and Citizens’ participation in the EU decision-making  (Report by the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rapporteur MEP Helmut Scholz, June 2021) 

The practice of democracy: A selection of civic engagement initiatives (EPRS, June 2020) 

European Court of Auditors

‘Have your say!’: Commission’s public consultations engage citizens, but fall short of outreach activities (2019)

OECD

Dispelling Myths about Participatory Budgeting across Levels of Government (July 2022) 

IMF

National Evaluation of Participatory Budgeting in England  (Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, 2011) 

Think tanks and other organisations

The World Atlas of Participatory Budgeting (Oficina, 2019)

Participatory budgeting framing analysis report (Demotec, May 2022) (received funding from the EU Horizon 2020 programme)

Participatory Budgeting: Does Evidence Match Enthusiasm? (Open Government Partnership, November 2017) 

Hybrid Participatory Budgeting: The Challenges of a Multi-Channel Participation (Empatia, Michelangelo Secchi, 2016) 

Enabling Multichannel Participation through ICT Adaptations for Participatory Budgeting (Empatia, 2016)

Participatory budgeting: a methodological approach to address sustainability challenges (Empatia, 2017)

Reviving Hope in Democracy: The Role of Citizen Participation (Centre For European Progression, January 2024)

EU could experiment with a participatory budget, experts say (Euractiv, May 2023)

Should European citizens dictate the bloc’s budget? (Euractiv, April 2022)

Participatory budgets: growing trend, little impact?  (Euractiv, January 2023)

CEPA strategy guidance note on Participatory budgeting (UN, January 2022) 

Features and drivers of citizen participation: Insights from participatory budgeting in three European cities (Public Management Review, August 2021) 

White Paper on participatory budgeting for youth in Europe (June 2019) 

Participatory budgeting for youth annual action plan (Pont Group May, 2020)