Webinar: Participatory budgeting and its potential
for community empowerment and social justice
Community empowerment and public service reform are
central to the Scottish experience of participatory budgeting (PB). But does
this focus also open a window of opportunity for democratic innovation for
Scotland?
In this webinar, Dr Oliver Escobar looked at what needs
to happen to ensure that the mainstreaming of PB simultaneously carves out
space for more complex participatory and deliberative processes in local
government decision-making.
This webinar draws on the work of the PB Scotland
working group, published this year in the free e-book Hope for democracy: 30
years of participatory budgeting worldwide, available
on the What Works Scotland website
Please note:
· There is a very small amount of content missing just before the main
presentation begins. This introduced the book mentioned above.
· The slides are not very clear and are a reduced size at the start. They
become full screen about six minutes into the presentation but all the
slides are available
to download
See all
of What Works Scotland resources on participatory budgeting