Rebecca Abers on Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Rebecca Abbers talks about Porto Alegre and its iconic Participatory Budget experiment that was effective at giving poor neighborhoods control over planning decisions, as long as those decisions remained focused on small scale projects.
Rebecca Abers is associate professor of political science at the University of Brasília. She has a doctoral degree in Urban and Regional Planning from UCLA. For nearly three decades, she has been studying urban and environmental problems in Brazil, with a focus on the political construction of participatory policy institutions and on how social movements influence political change. She is the author of Inventing Local Democracy: Grassroots Politics in Brazil (Lynne Rienner, 2000), a study of the Participatory Budget Experiment in Porto Alegre, and co-author of Practical Authority: Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics (Oxford, 2013).

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She never said what participatory budget is

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You can get more context by reading this blogpost where this video has been embedded -www.wri.org/blog/2018/06/what-if-citizens-set-city-budgets-experiment-captivated-world-participatory-budgeting

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"Participatory budgeting is a democratic process in which community members decide how to spend part of a public budget"