Health is created largely outside the health sector. Engagement in health governance,
policy, and intervention development and implementation by sectors other than health is …

La creciente expansión de presupuestos participativos (PP) registrada a partir de la década
de 1980 en diferentes gobiernos locales del mundo, ha sido de gran interés para la …

We inhabit a perpetually accelerating and increasingly interconnected world, with new
ideas, fads, and fashions moving at social-media speed. New policy ideas, especially “ideas …

Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all
cities have developed opportunities for citizen involvement in strategic planning. The World …

Actors and institutions in localities and regions across the world are seeking prosperity and
well-being amidst tumultuous and disruptive shifts and transitions generated by: an …

A Brookings Institution Press and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
publication Participatory Budgeting—the experiment in democracy that could redefine how …

This essay represents an attempt to provide an updated overview of participatory budgeting
(PB) in the world based on a first edition published in 2010. There, our aim was to present …

This paper examines a participatory budgeting process in the city of Surakarta (Solo),
Indonesia. Using newly digitized records of the infrastructure spending results from three …

While prior studies have shown the importance of participatory institutions in strengthening
civil society and in improving policy outcomes, we know much less about why some …

Community-driven development (CDD) has been identified as a potent vehicle for poverty
reduction. Over 105 countries have adopted CDD projects in the hope that citizen …