Problems and Purpose

The plan to involve citizens more in the City of Trogir's local government began in 2017 and was implemented in 2018. Prior to this, there were issues with transparency and communication between the local government and its citizens [1]. To remedy this, the administration planned and implemented a participatory budgeting programme aimed at including citizens in decision-making on the local level [2].

Background History and Context

Trogir is a small city on the coast of Croatia with a population of roughly 11,000 [3]. The city has a beautiful UNESCO World Heritage-listed old town and a lot of historical depth [4].

Trogir was the first city in Dalmatia and one of the few in Croatia to implament at participatory budgeting programme [5]. According to some academics, the Croatian effort to incorporate more PB into local governments is 'lagging', specifically in the number of cities that currently have such a programme, and in the number of cities planning to develop such a programme [6]. However, Trogir's case has been applauded globally as a success, with the International Observatory for Participatory Democracy (IOPD) placing it within the top fifty best participatory democracy projects in the world for two years in a row [7].

The importance of Trogir's PB programme is not only in the development of the lives of the citizens, but also in the protection of its old town and adherence to sustainable development. UNESCO celebrates how projects being undertaken that were part of public discussion in the PB programme work closely with conservationists to protect the historic old town [8].

Organising, Supporting, and Funding Entities

The municipal administration of the City of Trogir set up the dedicated participatory budgeting department in 2018 in order to include citizens in budget planning [9]. The implementation of this programme was driven by the city's political leadership and civil servants.

The project has received support from pro-democracy groups such as the International Observatory for Participatory Democracy (IOPD), which listed the programme as among the 50 best participatory democracy projects in the world for two years in a row [10]. UNESCO World Heritage Convention has also recognised the programme's contributions to sustainable development, specifically in goals eleven and sixteen. Goal eleven is to 'make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable', and goal sixteen is to 'promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels [11].

The programme's funding comes entirely out of the municipal budget, with a total of 882,600 euros having been spent on the project [12]. In 2024, the municipal budget allocated 240,000 euros to the project, an increase from the 180,000 euros that had been allocated in previous years [13]. In the 2026 budget, the programme has been allocated 285,000 euros [14]. Each local committee that takes part in PB is allocated part of the money depending on the population, with a minimum of 15,000 euros. For example, Travarica received 50,000 euros in 2024, while committees that have lower numbers of residents, such as Drvenik Veliki and Drvenik Mali, received 20,000 euros in 2024 [15].

Participant Recruitment and Selection

To participate in the budgeting, the only criterion for participation is residency. Any resident of Trogir and its nine neighbourhood committees is able to submit proposals surrounding minor utility, traffic and infrastructure via post, email, or in-person within the proposal submission window [16]. This window takes place for a few weeks around mid-September, after the submissions are processed, citizens vote in public forums at local committees on which projects are most important [17]. The votes take place in the local committees; these public hearings have an open-door policy, inviting and encouraging all citizens to take part. The goal is for assurance that 'investments are aligned with the real needs and priorities of the local community' [18].

There are no outreach programmes to involve specific groups, such as less represented groups, like ethnic minorities. However, updates and notices are posted on Facebook and official channels, requesting participation from everyone.

Each year, there are around 250-400 proposal submissions. The City of Trogir local government estimates that up to 2000 participants take part in the process [19].

Methods and Tools Used

Trogir uses a small-scale participatory budgeting system based on the proximity of the citizens to the projects. The PB works via a multi-phase process of proposal, evaluation, presentation, and voting.

The proposals are submitted by any resident who wants to submit a proposal. The proposal can be submitted by email, post, or in-person. These proposals are taken in around mid-September [20]. Around 250-400 of these proposals are submitted each year during this time period [21].

Once the submission window is closed, public servants work to process the submissions. This entails going through each submission and gathering information about each proposal, such as cost, location, feasibility, etc. Then this information is used to make a presentation for each proposal so that the public can remain informed [22].

Each neighbourhood committee then holds public forums where the presentations about the projects created by the public servants are used to inform the residents in their local committee meetings to prepare them for when they will vote on which projects they like the most [23]. The voting traditionally takes place in person, but during the COVID pandemic, the Trogir city council implemented an online voting system. Once the votes are counted, the most popular projects are undertaken [24]. These public forums serve as both deliberative and decision-making functions.

Once these projects are chosen, the administration commits to completing them in the next financial year with updates posted through official channels to maintain transparency [25].

What Went On: Process, Interaction, and Participation

The PB program has run continuously every year from September to October since 2018. Since its beginning, an estimated 2000 participants have taken direct part in the programme with an estimated 400 participants each year. Every year the programme took in between 250 and 400 proposals [26]. This success led to increased funds being allocated to the programme. In 2024, there was 240,000 euros allocated among the neighbourhood committees, and then by 2026 this was increased to 285,000 euros. This meant a 5,000 euro increase to each of the neighbourhood committees for undertaking projects voted and selected by the residents who took part in the participatory budgeting programme [27]. This money was used in projects that varied widely, with some examples including the installation of more trash cans, new bus stops, new benches, and other standard of life-improving projects [28].

When the programme faced a crisis of participation due to a lack of access during the COVID pandemic, the administration implemented better online-access to participation. This was done primarily by allowing votes on the projects to be cast online, as well as access to the presentations for the projects, and the project proposals themselves being able to be submitted online too [29]. Furthermore, in 2023 the new local committee of Mastrinka was formed and enveloped into the PB programme [30]. This demonstrates further the success of the system that it is flexible enough to incorporate a whole new local committee into its workings.

Influence, Outcomes, and Effects

Since 2018 when the Trogir PB programme began, there have been over 150 projects taken [31]. By 2021, a total of 78 proposals had been turned into real projects undertaken by local governments [32], and later 73 projects were taken on in 2024 alone [33]. A cumulative 882,600 euros was spent by 2024 on these many projects [34].

One major outcome of the participatory budgeting process is the resident’s civic training. A direct relationship and trust have been built between the citizens and the local government. UNESCO described the programme as enhancing inclusive and sustainable development, protecting the world’s cultural heritage and its preservation, and promotes responsive and inclusive participatory decision-making at the local level [35].

Trogir’s successful implementation of the PB program has played a part in more Croatian cities implementing similar programmes in the years since Trogir’s began [36]. This success is further recognised globally as the IOPD has documented Trogir as have one of the 50 best practices of participatory democracy worldwide for two years in a row [37].

Some limitations to the outcomes however are that the programme focuses entirely on small infrastructure projects and there is no public participation in larger projects. This limits the power given by the local government to its citizens.

Analysis and Lessons Learned

This analysis of Trogir’s participatory budgeting system will use Graham Smith’s analytical framework of democratic goods. This entails evaluating the case study across six criteria, four democratic goods, and two institutional goods. These are: inclusion, considered judgment, popular control, transparency, efficiency, and transferability. By evaluating each of these different goods, this analysis can integrate the knowledge and address questions of a variety of theoretical positions.

Formally, inclusion into participation is open to all residents. The self-selection model means that there are no barriers to participation beyond residency. Smith does not hold self-selection highly, claiming that ‘self-selection leads to unequal participation’ [38]. In order to address the fairness in making contributions, Trogir has ensured that each of the neighbourhoods’ budgets reflects their population size. Each neighbourhood budget receives a base amount plus an amount that reflects its population [39]. However, substantively, the assembly attendance of around 350 each year across all nine committees, with a cumulative attendance of 2,000 by 2026 [40] is mediocre. This is considering that it is likely that many of these participants are counted multiple times, as those already politically invested, such as homeowners, are more likely to attend. Inversely, less politically active groups, such as younger voters and renters, are less likely to participate. To account for this, increased online forms of participation have been implemented, such as online voting and project proposal submissions [41]. However, the still predominantly offline nature of the programme means that residents with busier schedules or who find it hard to attend these meetings, such as parents of young children or people with disabilities, are still less involved than other groups. However, the inclusion and increased representation of groups from a geographic category is seen in the addition of the ninth neighbourhood committee of Mastrinka in 2023 [42]. This demonstrates that while there have been attempts to include a large number of residents in this programme, there are severe limitations to the processes that make it harder for certain groups to participate.

According to Graham Smith, considered judgment is to do with the citizen’s understanding of technical details and the perspective of other citizens on a given issue [43]. The strength in the programme in this respect lies in its evaluation phase, where public servants process the proposals to assess their feasibility and cost so that they can be presented later to the voters with this information available [44]. This allows the public to create their own informed opinions. The weakness in the system, however, is in the lack of deliberation after the proposals have been presented. While there is a brief discussion after the presentations, the format primarily centres the presentation and then the voting phase of the process [45]. There is no system of debate, revision, structured or guided deliberation. Furthermore, there are no systems for which participants can build empathy for other opinions. In Trogir’s case, there seems to be an emphasis on aggregation of preferences over the process of formation of preferences, which Smith would describe as being counter to deliberative democratic theory [46].

Popular control, according to Graham Smith, is in reference to how much participants can influence different aspects of the decision-making process [47]. Smith makes distinctions for the sections of the decision-making process, with agenda-setting, decision-making, and implementation being different parts of the process where popular control can be evaluated [48]. In terms of public participation in agenda-setting, this is a very strong point for the programme. Citizens decide on what issues and proposals are raised by submitting proposals; the local government plays a small role in this part of the process [49]. However, the small role that the local government plays is a meaningful one. This is seen in how there is a limit on what kind of projects can be submitted, the programme only being meant for small projects, while the city still works alone for larger infrastructure projects [50]. This places a limit on the agenda-setting power of participants. In the decision-making part of the process, citizens hold voting power at the public hearings. The city commits to implementing the winning projects in the following financial year [51]. This makes the participatory budget binding and not merely a consultative body. This is another strong suit of the Trogir PB programme. In terms of implementation, the city is fully in charge of implementing the projects with no formal role for citizens to participate in this part of the process. However, the binding nature of the PB means that the projects must be undertaken and that transparency is present with updates being given in official local channels. Another limitation of the decision-making ability of the public in this process is that the budget is decided by the local government. The funding supplied to the programme is only a fraction of the municipal budget, meaning that the public only makes decisions on the fringe instead of at the centre of the process. In terms of popular control, there are elements of innovation that exist, but there are heavy bounds set on the programme that maintain the authority of elected officials overall.

In reference to transparency, Smith describes this good as participants’ understanding of the conditions in which they are participating (internal transparency), and the process’s openness to scrutiny from the outside (external transparency) [52]. The internal transparency of the programme is strong in the sense that it has open processes of proposal submission, annual calls and reminders on official channels [53]. The overall budget, the budget for each committee, the number of proposals, the number of votes, how and when to vote and take part in the public hearings are all publicly communicated and available information. Once the vote is completed, the full list for each committee’s winning projects and the cost in euros is all available information [54]. However, there are large gaps in the evaluation criteria in the proposal processing by civil servants. How the proposals are evaluated is not a transparent process. Some proposals may be rejected altogether for being too expensive or other reasons, but the reasons are never made public. This reflects a lack of transparency and a limit on people being able to contest these decisions. In terms of external transparency, the city communicated through public official channels about topics such as progress on projects. The programme has been listed by the OIDP as a top 50 participatory democracy project in the world twice [55], and has been documented by UNESCO for its progress in sustainable development [56]. These examples extend the visibility of the programme internationally and open it up to outside scrutiny. However, there have been no independent audits or evaluations on the programme, its project implementation, or its processes. The only available sources are self-reports from the city, but they lack any verification or corroboration from third parties. Further lack of documentation is seen in the lack of content from public hearings or deliberations, such as summaries, agendas, or transcripts. The transparency of the programme’s outputs is good as it is largely publicly available material that is clear to participants and available for scrutiny. However, transparency in the process of decision-making is low unless you can personally attend meetings, as there are no published minutes or summaries of the public hearings.

Graham Smith treats efficiency as a cost versus benefit discussion. Is the cost of the project worth the benefits that it affords [57]. The cost versus benefits question will be examined with reference to participants, the local government, and the wider public. The cost for participants is low. Submitting a proposal takes very little time and effort as it entails filling out a short, standardised form. Attendance at the public hearing and vote only requires visiting once a year. Both voting and proposal submissions can also be completed online without leaving the house, lowering the cost on the participant even further [58]. The benefits are mainly positive; in the best case, a participant might have their proposal win the vote and be implemented, in the worst case, a participant’s proposal might not be implemented, but other small projects that improve the city will. A minimum of around 25,000 euros will be invested in your neighbourhood’s infrastructure [59]. For the City of Trogir, the cost is the investment they have placed in a dedicated department for this project. That investment is a non-trivial sum, as over a million euros has been spent on the projects alone since the inception of the program. In 2024, it was reported that 882,000 euros had been spent since the start of the programme [60], and since then, around 400 million euros have been added to this [61]. This does not account for the salaries of the public servants and the maintenance costs of the program. However, the model seems to be efficient, as the benefits are quite strong. The benefits include the completion of around 70 projects each year [62], along with building meaningful civic engagement, relationships and trust between the citizens and the local government [63]. For the wider public, there is little to no cost as they neither participate in nor organise the program. The benefits apply to them as a consequence of the participants and the local government. That is over 1 million euros invested in their infrastructure across the city. There is increased civic literacy and trust. The program has also led to other Croatian cities being inspired to implement their own programmes [64]. Overall, the system is very efficient.

Transferability is described by Graham Smith as how applicable or transferable the innovation is to other cases [65]. This will be analysed along the areas of space, time, and political and cultural contexts. Along space, Trogir’s programme has influenced other Croatian cities to implement similar projects [66]. However, some academics view the Croatian trend of PB as lagging compared to other countries in Europe [67]. They go on to say that they do not expect broader diffusion of PB in the country. However, this was published the same year as UNESCO and the IOPD both recognised and documented the successes of the Trogir PB. UNESCO recognising its advancements in sustainable development [68], and the IOPD listing it as one of the 50 best participatory democracy projects in the world [69]. The proximity model that Trogir uses can be transferred easily to smaller or similar-sized cases. However, scaling upwards is still unproven and unlikely considering the proximity model. Across time, Trogir’s PB has proven to be quite transferable. This is seen in how the program has run since 2018, and is still running today, but with larger budgets and more participants [70]. The project has survived a global pandemic and incorporated new committees in the meantime [71]. The largest risk is a political risk, that there is no obligation to continue the program is city leadership changes or decides to deprioritise the program.

Overall, we have seen that Trogir has a decent relationship with the democratic and institutional goods. This case is strongest in terms of its popular control and efficiency, its inclusion and transparency are mediocre with balanced positives and negatives, its transferability is mediocre as well with a lack of scalability to bigger cities, and the good that Trogir’s PB is weakest in is considered judgment with somewhat limited deliberation. This project has succeeded in creating an efficient binding citizen decision-making body. The biggest improvement that the project can implement is more deliberation, especially with a focus on empathetic deliberation that leads to participants appreciating the views of others with different perspectives that Graham Smith argues is a requirement for considered judgment [72].

See Also

Participatory budgeting

Porto Alegre

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External Links

Official City of Trogir website: https://trogir.hr

Participatory budgeting page (Grad Trogir): https://trogir.hr/participativno-budzetiranje/

OIDP / IOPD award entry: https://participate.oidp.net/

UNESCO Canopy entry: https://whc.unesco.org/en/canopy/trogir-budgeting/

City of Trogir Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GradTrogir.tg/

City of Trogir YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNCeMEGmFYlHyEIAfJn-1ig

Notes

Some of the sources had to be translated from Croatian.