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What is participatory budgeting?
Participatory budgeting is a way of involving residents in the planning and decision-making of common tax resources. There is no one right method to carry out participatory budgeting. It can be implemented in many different ways. In participatory budgeting, the city allocates a certain budget or, for example, a certain percentage of the budget, and the residents can plan and decide the use of the budget.
Participatory budgeting originated in 1989 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where it was developed to help improve poor neighbourhoods and reduce inequality. Since then, participatory budgeting has spread widely around the world. Participatory budgeting in Finland has gradually become more common for municipalities since the 2010s.
In Oulu participatory budgeting in 2023, residents will come up with ideas and decide on the use of 70,000 euros.
