Resources

A lot of resources can be found here.  However, here are some more resources which we think would be more specifically useful to facilitators.

Research & publications

 Case studies from Seville & Toronto - research paper

History of PB in Brazil: a short research piece providing more information on the history of PB in Brazil

Participatory budgeting in Europe:a short research piece on participatory budgeting in Europe

Interim evaluation of the Stockport and Tameside community safety PB pilots: Produced by Greater Manchester Police on their Home Office funded community safety pilots in 2009

Resources

Press checklist for PB organisers: Checklist for you to use to help you involve the media in your PB events

Values, Principles and Standards draft document: we are looking for feedback on this until 30th June

Form for PB Toolkit: you can use this form to order a paper copy of the toolkit with DVD and pocket for additional toolkit sheets

PB Toolkit: You can download the toolkit here

Case Study Template: template for you to use to submit case studies for us to put on the website

Guidance for practitioners on e-PB: Short guidance on implementing online PB

External Links

People and participation - a really useful publication by Involve which provides a practical guide to thinking about different participation models, how to use participation and when to use it.

Participation Nation - another publication from Involve taking more of an overview of participation and it's role in democracy.  It looks at the role of the citizen in the public realm from a number of different perspectives.  Again a really useful and interesting read.

Report on community budgeting in Fife

From Porto Alegre to Europe: the potential and limits of participatory budgeting

Participatory budgets in Germany and Europe

A guide to participatory budgeting by Brian Wampler

Civic Engagement paper by UNDP

Report on Gender and Budgets - IDS

Strengthening participation in public expenditure management - OECD

Citizenship knows no age - IIED: a report on involving children and young people in participation

Beyond Public Scrutiny: Stocktaking of Public Accountability in OECD Countries: A report by OECD on public accountability

Community engagement and community cohesion: a study looking at bringing these two fields together by Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Deliberative public engagement: nine principles: a paper produced by Involve on some key principles for public engagement

Flexible format for creative & enjoyable public meetings: a practical guide produced by the New Economics Foundation on how to create enjoyable and useful public meetings

e-Participatory Budgeting: e-democracy from theory to success?: an interesting paper produced by the E-democracy Centre in Zurich looking at e-participatory budgeting in Belo Horizonte in Brazil - it's successes, learning points and how e-pb might be used.

'First talk, then vote': An article by Robert Goodin.  He argues the need for both talk or deliberation and voting in a democratic decision-making process.

Participatory budgeting in Europe: Potentials & Challenges by Sintomer, Herzberg and Rocke.  This article looks at 6 different models of PB across Europe and assesses their potential to deliver meaningful PB.

Directory of online budget simulators - Online budget simulators and games produced to help educate people about public budgets.