The Community Wellbeing Champions Initiative consisted of five areas in Scotland running Participatory Budgeting pilots within the context of the Anti-Social Behaviour Framework. The final evaluation indicates positive impacts in terms of community capability and strengthened local democracy as well as a reduction in anti-social behaviour. The Participatory Budgeting (PB) model used for the pilot programme embedded the National Standards for Community Engagement as a set of guiding principles and as an evaluation and measuring tool. Discussions will be taking place later on this year on the effectiveness of Participatory Budgeting as a method for meaningful community engagement and how the technique might be applied more widely in Scotland.
Participatory Budgeting evaluation
6 August 2011 | 0 comments
