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UK releases draft national participatory budgeting strategy
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Josh Lerner
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May 07, 2008 18:37 PDT
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The UK Secretary of Communities and Local Government has released a
draft national participatory budgeting strategy, and is now seeking
feedback on the plan.
See http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/communities/pdf/727993
The plan adopts a fairly strong definition of participatory budgeting:
"Participatory budgeting engages people in taking decisions on the
spending priorities for a defined public budget in their local area.
This means engaging residents and community groups to discuss spending
priorities, make spending proposals, and vote on them, as well giving
local people a role in the scrutiny and monitoring of the process." The
strategy also includes a few case studies and models of PB, and
proposals for launching pilot programs, with the goal of having PB used
in every local authority by 2012.
Congratulations to the PB Unit in the UK for their hard work in making
this happen! I'd be curious to hear what you think about the plan and
the government's approach thus far...
cheers,
Josh
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