Is participatory budgeting only implemented at the municipal level?

Not exclusively! Nevertheless, the great majority of Participatory Budgets have been and still are implemented at the municipal level, where the use of municipal funds is debated. At the sub-national level (province, region, department, state, etc.), the currently suspended experience of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, which grew out of what was happening in Porto Alegre, deserves a mention. Also notable are the supra-municipal initiatives in Colombia, at the provincial level (the grouping of los Nevados municipalities in El Tolima) or the departmental level (for example in Risaralda, since 2002). Peru has also been implementing processes at the provincial level, for example, in the provinces of Chucampas, Celendín or Moropon Chulucanas. To date, only one country, Peru, has a National Participatory Budgeting Law applicable to all municipalities and provinces of the country.  On the other hand, some Participatory Budgets are initiated in or limited to a certain part of the municipality (district, zone, delegation), particularly in large cities. This was the case in Buenos Aires, and most recently in District 7 (pop. 34,000) of the city of El Alto (pop. 680,000) in Bolivia.