PB Scotland and the Scottish Government yesterday launched the Participatory Budgeting Charter for Scotland.
The PB Charter is a set of seven key features showing what a fair and high quality PB process should look like. It aims to ensure PB is inclusive, uses good quality methods and is truly participative.
With PB increasingly becoming a central part of how decisions are made, the charter’s seven features show what needs to be considered to make sure participatory budgeting is:
- Fair and inclusive
- Participatory
- Deliberative
- Empowering
- Creative and flexible
- Transparent
- Part of our democracy
The PB Charter is for everyone involved in a participatory budgeting process – whether they’re planning an event or going along to vote – and has been Crystal Marked by the Plain English Campaign.
The charter is a co-produced resource, developed by people with experience of PB processes in Scotland, including those from equality groups, community organisations and public bodies.
We’ll be promoting the use of the charter over the coming year, supporting high quality PB to continue to happen across Scotland.
Next steps: PB Charter Learning Event
Following the launch of the charter, this learning event will explore one of its key features: deliberation.
Proper dialogue and deliberation is vital for people taking part in PB to come to the best decisions for their communities. But how much deliberation is really happening as part of participatory budgeting (PB) in Scotland?
Featuring Dr Oliver Escobar, this free event will build on the PB Charter and explore this important issue, asking: Why is deliberation important? What does it look like? How can we do it well?
- Friday 16th August 2019
- Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
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