Radio Update on Porto Alegre
Mike Fox produced a 5-minute radio segment on this year’s Participatory Budgeting process in Porto Alegre. This year marks the 20th anniversary of PB in Porto Alegre. This year’s round of budgeting began over the last month with two dozen regional assemblies, but while participation has been high, many residents say the process is in […]
Delegates and Councillors evaluate PB in Porto Alegre
A new report out from CIDADE in Porto Alegre: Delegates and Councillors evaluate PB2009-01-14 11:11:00Delegates and Councillors evaluate PB and indicate goals to improve the process In partnership with Cooperative Strategies for Sustainable Community Transformation (ETCS), from Barcelona (Spain), the NGO Cidade organized and carried out a participatory conference titled “Reflections on PB”, August 9 […]
Update from Porto Alegre
Sergio Baierle, from the NGO CIDADE, just published a critical report on the status of Porto Alegre’s PB. See the summary below, or the full report at: http://www.ongcidade.org/site/php/noticias/noticias.php?area=artigos&completa&id_noticia=1021 Whittling down the Potential of Participatory Budgeting? by Sérgio Baierle 2008-08-19 “PB is still alive!”, The government repeatedly and publicly claims, as if it is trying to […]
Porto Alegre’s Participatory Budgeting at a Crossroads
Mike Fox recently published an update in NACLA on the situation of participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre:"Porto Alegre’s Participatory Budgeting at a Crossroads"http://nacla.org/node/4566
Update on Porto Alegre
Aaron Schneider published an update on participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre yesterday: Crisis in the Home of Participatory Budgeting: Technical Accuracy and HierarchyCidade11/04/2007 Excerpt: "My high hopes are based on ideas and practices that are core to participatory budgeting,even if not always present. The ideas of which I speak include deliberation, which is theconstruction of […]
PB in Porto Alegre Continues to Disappoint Under New Administration
We are fortunate to have a guest posting below by Corinne Tatcher, who has been observing the PB process in Porto Alegre. “Fogaça: A Cara da Cidade.” I still remember José Fogaça’s campaign slogan for his mayoral bid in 2004. Fogaça: The Face of the City. Unfortunately, Fogaça has indeed been promoting his own image […]
