Webinar: Participatory budgeting and its potential for community empowerment and social justice
Channel: What Works Scotland
Date: 2018-10-25

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 the What Works Scotland website http://whatworksscotland.ac.uk/publications/hope-for-democracy-participatory-budgeting-in-scotland/ 

Please note: 
• There is a very small amount of content missing just before the main presentation begins, which introduced the book mentioned above.
• The slides are not very clear and are reduced size at the start. They become full screen about six minutes into the presentation but all the slides are available to download at http://whatworksscotland.ac.uk/events/webinar-participatory-budgeting-and-its-potential-for-community-empowerment-and-social-justice/

See all of What Works Scotland resources on participatory budgeting http://whatworksscotland.ac.uk/category/participatory-budgeting/