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PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING

OIKKONEN HEINIHELSINKI CITY LIBRARY

12.04.23IFLA World Library and Information Congress, Helsinki 2012

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Participatory budgeting directly involves local people in making decisions on the spending and priorities for a defined public budget

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HISTORY

Started in Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1989

Results:

- health and education budget grew 300 % in

10 years

- better quality of public welfare services

- participatory budgeting has a positive

effect in underprivileged or poor communities


HISTORY

New York, USA, 2011

Budget: 6 million dollars

Citizens working together with experts

Started in October 2011, from decisions to

actions in April 2012

Follow: pbnyc.org/


http://pbnyc.org/

MODELS

Community grants

- small pots of money

- residents vote which communal project gets the funding

- good way to start

- short period of time, easy to understand the process

Top slicing

- citizens decide how to use 1 % of the total (city) budget

- gives more actual power to citizens but needs more planning

Pooled budgets

- concentrated on a theme or a particular organisation

- perspective: community’s needs rather than individual needs


OUR PROJECT

May – December 2012

Joint project of Helsinki City Library, Avanto Insight

Oy and Emobit Oy

Funded by The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra

Goal: How to plan and carry out

participatory budgeting in public

library


OUR PROJECT

Citizens take part in decision-making: how to

use 100 000 euro for independent actions in

library

- actions must relate to Helsinki Central

Library 2017

Values: equal opportunities, active citizenship,

openness and co-operation


PHASE 1: PLANNING

Project planning started in March 2012

Joint effort of all partners

Learning from others:

- compare other participatory budgeting

projects

- finding out the most suitable methods and

tools

- learning from partners


PHASE 2: DATA VISUALISATION

Principle: All decision-making is based on

previous information and knowledge

In effect, library must provide simple

information about it’s budget and every-day

actions that is easy to understand to

participants


PHASE 3: WORKING TOGETHER

The challenge: how to find participants and

provide access to everybody interested

Working methods:

- group work and meetings with participants

- online information

- experts involved


PHASE 4: EVALUATION AND SHARING RESULTS

Evaluating the process is key for future

development

Project documentation can be used in other

participatory budgeting projects to ease the

process


PHASE 5: ACTUAL PROJECTS

Participants decide which action’s the library

should take. The amount of details is affected by

the wishes of participants.

Actual project plans and actions are provided by

the library

Actions take place in 2013 in local libraries in

Helsinki


CHALLENGES

What is the responsibility of the participants?

How to make sure that all citizens can participate if

they want to?

How to measure the impact?

How can participants and other citizens follow the

project and actions through?

How to make sure library’s expertise is well used in

the project?


WHY LIBRARY?

Public libraries have strong connection to their

customers and are familiar with co-operating in

local communities

Libraries are used by most citizens

Libraries are appreciated by most citizens

Libraries want to develop and support their

communities


More information

www.osallistuvabudjetointi.fiwww.participatorybudjeting.orgwww.openspending.org

[email protected] / Helsinki City Library


http://www.osallistuvabudjetointi.fi/

http://www.participatorybudjeting.org/

http://www.openspending.org/

mailto:[email protected]

THANK YOU

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