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Dundee Climate Fund 3.0

The Dundee Climate Fund (DCF), which is launched by the Dundee City Council, is a participatory budgeting initiative in order to empower residents in directing funds toward local climate action projects.

Updated June 5, 2025

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Birmingham Museum Citizen Jury

In 2024, Birmingham Museums held a Citizens’ Jury to engage residents in shaping the future of its museums. Facing financial strain and falling attendance, it asked: “What should Birmingham Museums do to meet community needs now and in the future?”

Updated June 5, 2025

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Participatory Budgeting in Busia County

In the face of poor service delivery, mainly due to elite capture, resource allocation is incredibly inequitable. In this light, participatory budgeting has been implemented to take power away from elites and allow citizens to prioritise the most important services.

Updated May 21, 2025

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Wandsworth Citizens' Assembly 2023: Deliberative Recommendations on Air Quality

The Wandsworth Citizens’ Assembly on Air Quality brought together a demographically representative group of residents, with support from an Oversight Panel, to co-create recommendations informing the Borough’s 2023–2028 Air Quality Action Plan.

Updated May 14, 2025

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July 2020 Hong Kong pro-democracy primaries

Immediately following the post-protest imposition of the National Security Law in July 2020, the Hong Kong pro-democracy primaries were held, without official authorisation & amid police threats, to select pro-democracy candidates for the thence COVID-postponed LegCo election.

Updated May 30, 2024

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SO18 Big Local – Participatory Budgeting

The SO18 Big Local project, funded by the National Lottery, involved residents of Harefield, Midanbury, and Townhill Park in allocating £1.1 million over ten years. It aimed to address civic engagement and economic decline by encouraging the community to address local needs.

Updated May 30, 2024

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Adur and Worthing Climate Assembly

Adur and Worthing held a Citizens' Assembly between September and December 2020, consisting of 43 randomly selected residents to deliberate on climate change. It was one of the first virtual assemblies in the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic [1].

Updated October 10, 2023

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Participatory Budgeting at Lithuanian Schools

Lithuanian schools adopted participatory budgeting, empowering students to allocate funds and make important decisions. This innovative approach fosters transparency, civic engagement, and financial literacy. To date, over 40 Lithuanian schools have implemented this initiative.

Updated July 28, 2023

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The Southwark's Citizen's Jury on Climate Change

Southwark's Citizen's Jury targets the question: 'What needs to change in Southwark to tackle the emergency of climate change fairly and effectively for people and nature?' Southwark aims to be net-zero by 2030, and this Citizens' Jury aims to assist in that goal.

Updated June 10, 2023

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Scotland's Climate Assembly

Scotland's first citizens assembly on climate change brought together over 100 citizens representative of Scotland to learn and deliberate over the topic of climate change to create and submit recommendations and goals for the government to respond to.

Updated June 10, 2023

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Herefordshire Citizen's Climate Assembly

In 2022, Herefordshire County Council held a citizens assembly regarding the question: “How should Herefordshire meet the challenges of climate change?”. Citizens were invited to learn and deliberate the effect of climate change and what the community can do to challenge it. [1]

Updated June 10, 2023

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Romsey Citizens' Assembly

The Romsey Citizens' Assembly gathered 42 locals, chosen at random, to make suggestions for enhancing the area around Crosfield Hall and the Bus Station within Romsey. The main focus being on maximising advantages for the community through a final report to the council.

Updated June 10, 2023

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The Third Canadian Citizens Assembly on Democratic Expression

The Citizens Assembly on Democratic Expression bought together a number of participants who volunteered their time to deliberate on critical online safety and freedom of speech. The final recommendations from the assembly informed future legislation in the digital sphere

Updated June 10, 2023

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Citizens’ Initiative Referendum in California 2016, Proposition 64

In 2016, Proposition 64 (Control, Regulate, and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act) qualified for a Citizens' Initiative Referendum in California, USA, by meeting the threshold of 365,880 signatures. The electorate subsequently approved the motion with 14,610,509 voters in November.

Updated June 10, 2023

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Participatory monitoring and evaluation in SOS Children’s Village in South Africa

This case study explores the implementation of participatory monitoring and evaluation to aid the activity of SOS Children's Villages, an NGO, that supports children finding foster homes and offering financial and educational aid to families.

Updated May 7, 2023

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Deliberative practice of Chinese local community - Dongying City ，Shandong Province

The Xinxing community, situated in China, has centered its efforts on two primary domains: consultation structures and deliberative processes. This approach has led to enhanced accuracy and sophistication in community governance and service provision.

Updated May 7, 2023

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#FightPinkTax

#FightPinkTax is an innovation designed to democratically address the gender price gap, whereby women pay more for goods and services, using an internationally accessible online petition that conveys the issue.

Updated July 25, 2022

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World Wide Views' Global Consultation on Biodiversity

In 2012, the WWV Consultation on Biodiversity involved over 3000 participants over 34 citizen consultations in 25 countries on the same day. The consultation was part of wider citizen participation project to identify and ensure public opinion is considered by policy makers.

Updated July 25, 2022

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Italian Constitutional Referendum, 2020

In 2020 a referendum was held on whether to the amend the Italian Constitution, to reduce the number of Deputies from 630 to 400, the number of Senators from 300 to 215, and limit the number of new life Senators. 69.96% of votes were cast in favour of the amendments.

Updated May 9, 2022

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Direct Democracy and Resource Allocation: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan, 2016

This case reports the results of an experimental study that compares the impact of participatory budgeting versus direct democracy at the sub-national level in Afghanistan.

Updated May 9, 2022