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Involving citizens in decisions about money

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Participatory Budgeting – a decision-making process through which citizens deliberate and negotiate over the distribution of public resource.

Your Priorities - open source, free to use. Ideas and debates can include text, images, and videos, and are public.

The participatory budgeting process in Antwerp started with aims.
In Paris there is an emphasis on working together.
Newham used working groups and citizens' assemblies to put communities in the driving seat.
In New York a community-led research process is used.
In Leith a participatory budgeting approach is used for a small scale community grants programme.
In Wuppertal a citizens' assembly prioritised the ideas based on which would have the most added value for their city.