France has 400 municipalities committed to a participatory budget approach.
There were around twenty in 2016 and 140 on the eve of the municipal elections of 2020. In the country of “36,000 towns and villages”, this seems modest: 1.15% of municipalities only.
However, 12 million French people live in these 400 there.
Nearly one in five French people can therefore directly propose and decide on projects for their city.
The participatory budget, born in Brazil in the early 1990s, crossed the Atlantic at the end of this decade.
It gives citizens the ability to make proposals for their city, their department, their university, and the ability to vote on them.
However, it has financial limits and the projects must correspond to the skills of the organizing community.
First in the biggest cities
The rise of participatory budgets during the 2014-2020 municipal mandate has accelerated since the start of this 2020-2026 mandate.
The propensity of this number to double each year…
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