How can the sustainability of the participatory budgeting process be guaranteed?
A study of the Brazilian Popular Participation Forum indicates that during the period 1997-2000, of the 103 cases examined, over 20 per cent were suspended. This situation compels one to consider the conditions for irreversibility of the processes, in other words, mechanisms to ensure that these processes are consolidated and strengthened over time, beyond the political will of one or another mayor and the activism of some citizen movements. It seems that, through time, the sustainability of Participatory Budgets proceeds alongside the empowerment of the population and its understanding of the importance of the process and the benefits it can bring. Such empowerment requires a clear prioritisation of consciousness-raising and educational efforts directed at the grassroots. These efforts, in the light of the teachings of Paulo Freire, call for an up-scaling of the educational perspective of PB. Another condition of irreversibility relates to the legalisation of the process, which should
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