WHAT THE PB UNIT CAN OFFER
The
PB Unit offers research and consultancy in the following areas:
Research service
Accompaniment in developing and delivering participatory
processes
Technical support
Evaluation and monitoring throughout PB process
Further support
Who is this research and consultancy useful for?
Research service
- Research about policy and practice happening in other local authority
areas
- Research studies about what is happening in local authorities
internally
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Accompaniment in developing and delivering participatory
processes
- Budget literacy work with a range of stakeholders using a range
of participatory tools
- Support in developing community engagement and capacity building
processes to enable active participation in PB pilots
- Facilitation of planning meetings and partnership working
- Reflecting from a position outside the local authority to enable
the necessary bureaucratic structures to be 'invisible' so as to
give more ownership of meetings to local people
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Technical support
- Workshop facilitation with neighbourhood managers, community development
workers, councillors and community members
- Support with the development and delivery of participatory processes
- Support with the development of technical tools, including budget
matrices, policies, rules, etc
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Evaluation and monitoring throughout PB process
- Development of a framework for baseline monitoring, indicators
and targets
- Participatory evaluation
- Writing up of pieces of work and dissemination internally and
externally
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Further support is available from:
- PB Practitioners' Network - opportunity to share learning with
other pilot areas
- National Reference Group meetings - opportunity to share learning
with senior government policy makers
- International networks
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Our services are particularly suitable for organisations
wishing to:
- Develop more participatory and inclusive processes in their budget
decision making
- Build capacity within their organisations and the wider community
around budgets
- Analyse the relationships between budget decision making and social
inclusion
- Develop their commitment to inclusion and participation.
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