[10] Porto Alegre spends about 200 million dollars per year on construction and services, this money is subject to participatory budgeting.
The OmaStadi-process ("MyOwnHelsinki") consists of four stages: First, citizen make proposals in the areas of ecology, culture, outdoors, nature, build environment and community.
In 2023 it initiated a PB process using a novel aggregation rule, the method of equal shares, which aims to guarantee justified representation to all groups in the population.
The program was called the Zielony Milion – Green Million, as the total allocated budget was 1,000,000 PLN, and the focus was on environmental projects.
"[34] Other municipalities that have implemented participatory budgeting at some point include "Puente Genil, Cabezas de San Juan and Rubi.
[38] Pineda Nebot (2009) elaborates that local governments across Spain struggle to coordinate between citizens who recommend specific spending priorities and the bureaucracy that implements the budget.
After left-wing parties won the Madrid municipal elections in 2015, a participatory budgeting experiment began, but the practice has faced problems with clear communication, transparency, and utilization of latest technology.
[34] For example, Pineda Nebot and Pires (2017) believe that many of the experiments in Spain do not provide sufficient information about previous budgets or space for citizens to design the rules of debate to have better deliberations, though they suggest that adopting technological innovations could improve the process.
[41][42] PB in the United Kingdom was initially introduced as part of the 'New Labour' Party's decentralization agenda that aimed to empower the local governments in the first decade of the 21st century.
[43] Hazel Blears, the Labour MP, "[...] played a key role in the inclusion of PB on the national policy agenda[...]," pushing for greater community participation and empowerment in the governmental structure.
[43] The "UK style" of PB, as Anja Rocke puts it, "in form of small grant-spending processes with no secured financial basis and organized at the margins of the political system," failed to gain enough momentum to be established nationally as a formal decision-making procedure.
A documentary film exploring how Glasgow and Fife community planning partnerships learnt about implementing participatory budgeting on a study trip to Paris, a European leader in mainstreaming PB.
The first recorded Participatory Budgeting process in the United States of America started in 2009[51] in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.
Idea collection is focused particularly on hard-to-reach communities, such as immigrants with limited English proficiency, youth, senior citizens, and public housing residents.
[2] A voter-approved amendment to the New York City Charter in November 2018 created a new Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) which was charged with designing and implementing a citywide Participatory Budgeting process to start in 2020.
[3] The CEC has also implemented other civic engagement initiatives, including a mobile community center and poll site interpretation services.
[8] The most recent iteration of citywide participatory budgeting is also called "The People's Money" and allocates $5 million to fund local projects across the city.
Once finalized, all NYC residents age 11 and older will be able to vote on which proposals receive funding, with the goal of implementing winning projects starting in 2024.
Citing the case of Toronto, Community Voices Heard (CVH) has called for PB within the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).
As part of a platform for democratizing and improving access to public housing, CVH has advocated for developing a kind of participatory system tied together by PB.
In 2013–2014 MIT's International Development Group within the school's Department of Urban Studies and Planning conducted an $8,000 PB process.
District 3 also possesses a PB Youth Committee December 2015, which works in collaboration with an organization called Friends of the High Line.
In his State of the City address, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that PB would be launched in every public high school.
[65] The World Bank Group's research lists Mangaung and Ekurhuleni municipalities as representative cases to demonstrate the typical PB process in South Africa.
[65] The rate of transparency for the municipal governments has increased because the sub-organization ward committees are able to maintain consistently ongoing communication with the citizens.
[65] Regardless, the challenges in South African local governance still prevail as a result of the lack of resources and limited capacities assigned to PB.
[66] Before the 2011 decree, approximately 45% of local governments had already been utilizing the PB system, and it took 3 years for the remaining municipalities to fulfill the mandate.
Transparency in budget documents and information sharing has increased since 2011, and the approval rates by local PB committees averaged to approximately 70%.
On the other hand, the study also points out that the lack of citizen capacity, inadequate resources for smaller municipalities, and limited representativeness of vested interests as some of the most unresolved challenges in Korea's PB implementation.
Pune's PB system was met with a large response from its local citizens, and multiple online and offline workshops were carried out to foster the implementation[68] As a result, Pune has experienced both increased citizen participation and budget allocation, which are directed primarily towards roads, electricity, slum-improvement, and water shortage.