Human Rights Budgeting Resource Page

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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

  • Participedia.net-website featuring democratizing projects from around the world-models and toolkits for local action!

Pittsburgh City of Pittsburgh Operating Budget 2019


Further Reading
Yes! Magazine