Resources
This section has some resources which you might find helpful including tools and publications
Publications
Here are some publications produced mostly, although not completely, by the PB Unit. They will provide you with more information about PB and some different contexts that you might want to consider.
Bringing Budgets Alive: PB in Practice
Towards a gender sensitive participatory budgeting
Slicing up the pie: Community involvement in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Gender & Participatory Budgeting report - DFID
Breathing life into democracy: The power of PB
PB in the UK: From the grassroots to national policy by Anja Rocke
Report on the PB Unit's work with Children and Young People
Participatory budgeting and the Arts
Interim evaluation of PB community safety pilots in Stockport and Tameside
Community Safety PB pilots case studies booklet
For more publications please click here
Tools
Here are some tools developed by the PB Unit, which you may find useful. Some are about understanding how public budgets work. There is also a diagram of how local government is put together and a case study template that you can use to submit case studies to us on (or use yourself in other ways).
Salford budget matrix step by step guide
Guide to developing a budget matrix
External Links
is a document produced by CLG & Involve to help communities hold events on the empowerment white paper and how to feed the discussions at the events back to government. It has some useful information about arranging and managing events and also how to respond to government consultations.
For the Empowerment White Paper, click here
Ryedale district council have developed a budget simulator to help communities understand how public budgets work
An introductory leaflet to PB produced by the CFE
Gender responsive budgeting - Training manual on gender budget analysis by UNIFEM
For links to external sites and reports click here
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