Human Rights Budgeting Resource Page

People’s Budgeting: A Tool for Transforming our Region?
Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which community members decide how to spend part of a public budget. It gives people real power over real money. PB started in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1989, as an anti-poverty measure that helped reduce child mortality by nearly 20%. Since then PB has spread to over 3,000 cities around the world, and has been used to decide budgets from states, counties, cities, housing authorities, schools, and other institutions. For more information see: https://www.participatorybudgeting.org/

Resources National Economic and Social Rights Initiative-Tools and resources for human rights budgeting:

• People's Budget short animated film
• Human Rights Budgeting FAQs
• Vermont’s People’s Budget Campaign
• How Participatory Budgeting Works in New York City - The Atlantic

Further Reading

• How to Make City Budgets Racially Just? Let Citizens Do the Numbers
• Meet the Citizens Who Helped Decide Their City’s Budget—and Got Better Buses, Benches, and Crosswalks-Greensboro, NC
• How to Hack City Money: Let 16 Year Olds Vote on Budgets, Get Banks to Invest Locally
• 8 Main Street Job Creators Who Are Rebooting the Economy—Starting with Those Who Need It Most