The Global PB Hub Review Committee offered The Youth Cafe Executive Director a board seat on the Global PB Support Board. The PB Support Board will guide the Hub's work to improve PB practice and impacts. It is responsible for advising on the needs of PB implementers and advocates, deciding on priorities for new PB resources and tools, and supporting the Hub in developing and disseminating resources and tools. They received nearly 80 outstanding applications from 34 countries, and this is a recognition of our exceptional work on PB.
The Global PB Hub aims to improve and expand participatory budgeting (PB) around the world by addressing common challenges and opportunities faced by PB implementers and supporters. It coordinates research, shares learning, and develops resources, building on the expertise of the PB community. PBP is incubating the Hub as a new fiscally sponsored initiative.
Background
Over the past 30 years, PB has expanded to more than 7,000 cities across the globe, becoming the most widespread model of participatory democracy. PB leaders have generated a wealth of knowledge and expertise, but these resources are often inaccessible to local implementers and advocates. And despite PB’s global growth, local PB processes still face common challenges: limited guidance for implementers, labor-intensive coordination, empty top-down mandates, and slow implementation of winning projects.
These were the main findings of the PB Exchange, a co-design workshop held in November 2018 that gathered experts and implementers from 21 countries to assess the challenges and opportunities of PB implementation. Based on the recommendations of the PB Exchange participants, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation dedicated a two year grant to launch a global hub to coordinate PB knowledge and peer exchange around the world.
Activities
The Hub is working with the global PB community to map existing knowledge and identify priorities for new PB research and resources. Its initial priorities are to:
Establish new communications and governance systems for the global PB community.
Create an online library of PB resources and research, to consolidate, organize, and disseminate the most useful PB research, data, tools, and resources in an accessible format.
Identify PB research priorities and support new research addressing these priorities.
Identify PB implementers' priorities for new resources and tools, and develop and disseminate new tools and resources that address these priorities.
Leadership
The Hub has created a Global PB Support Board and a Global PB Research Board to drive its work and ensure that it is accountable to PB leaders around the world.
The Youth Cafe Executive Director is among global leaders appointed to the Global Participatory Budgeting Hub Board.
Staff
Josh Lerner, Director | New York
Clara Bois, Program Manager | Los Angeles
Mariana Gonzalez Ruiz Velasco, Research & Design Fellow | New York
Global PB Support Board
Hajarivony Andriamarofara, Independant Consultant | Antananarivo, Madagascar
Hanne Bastiaensen, The Democratic Society | Antwerpen, Belgium
Jelena Brbora, City of Dubrovnik Development Agency | Dubrovnik, Croatia
Shelley Carroll, City of Toronto | Toronto, Canada
Thea Crum, UIC Great Cities Institute | Chicago, USA
Nelson Dias, Oficina | Conceição de Faro, Portugal
Geneviève Dufresne, Montréal Urban Ecology Center | Montréal, Canada
Anastasia Fadeeva, World Bank | Tver, Russian Federation
Sanna Ghotbi, Digidem Lab | Gothenburg, Sweden
Mamadou Bachir Kanoute, IOPD Africa | Dakar, Senegal
John Maritim, Elgeyo Marakwet County Government | Eldoret, Kenya
Tarson Núñez, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul | Porto Alegre, Brazil
Evelyn O'Donnell, Glasgow City Council | Glasgow, United Kingdom
Willice Onyango, The Youth Cafe | Nairobi, Kenya
Ekaterina Petrikevich, Participation Factory | Prague, Czech Republic
Stefano Stortone, BiPart | Milan, Italy
Celina Su, City University of New York | Brooklyn, USA
Daniely Votto, DVotto Consultoria para Cidades | Porto Alegre, Brazil
Hao Xiang, The World and China Institute | Beijing, China
Ming Zhuang, Social Equity and Participation Center | Chengdu, China
Global PB Research Board
Giovanni Allegretti, Centre for Social Studies - Coimbra University | Lisbon, Portugal
Tiago C. Peixoto, The World Bank | Maputo, Mozambique
Timothy Kiprono Chebet, Open Governance Institute | Nairobi, Kenya
Diana Dajer, Policéntrico | Bogotá, Colombia
Titiana Ertiö, University of Helsinki / Centre for Consumer Society Research | Helsinki, Finland
Alberto Ford, Department of Political Science and International Relations, National University of Rosario | Rosario, Argentina
Carolin Hagelskamp, Berlin School of Economics and Law | Berlin, Germany
Kuo-ming Lin, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University | Taipei, Taiwan
Stephanie McNulty, Franklin and Marshall College | Lancaster, USA
Won No, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | Shanghai, China
Osmany Porto de Oliveira, Federal University of São Paulo | São Paulo, Brazil
Daniel Schugurensky, Participatory Governance Initiative, Arizona State University | Tempe, USA
Lev Shilov, European University at St. Petersburg | St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
Michael Touchton, University of Miami | Coral Gables, USA
Karla Valverde Viesca, National Autonomous University of Mexico | Mexico City, Mexico
Brian Wampler, Boise State University | Boise, USA
For more information about the Hub, click here