Envision Prince George’s was a regional visioning and planning project. Citizens and stakeholders were engaged to create a vision for the future of Prince George’s County and prioritize the top long-term goals the county should pursue in the next five to ten years. Participants discussed goals in all six of...
Suffering from elite capture and low representation, Makueni County developed and implemented a new framework for Participatory Budgeting focusing on the village and sub-Ward levels. The new framework has increased participation and representation of lower-class individuals.
A country-wide series of citizen consultations in each municipality discussing new ideas for citizen's participation in the Netherlands. Each learning community was guided by a leading expert in the field and was successful in bringing together professionals from different local governments on state of the art approaches and methods to...
The Citizens’ Hall provides the means to receive, consider and incorporate citizens’ suggestions and concerns into draft legislation being considered by the parliament, and when necessary, to help facilitate consensus building among the social groups, factions, and political forces.
The Supportive Housing Fund was created to give low-income families the opportunity to not only apply for subsidized housing, but to be part of the planning and development process.