What are the basic conditions necessary to implement participatory budgeting?
There are a number of basic preconditions for the implementation of a Participatory Budget. The first is a clear political will of the Mayor (or leader of the council and councillors) and the other municipal decisionmakers. Political will is necessary to sustain the entire process. The most visible manifestation of this will be in the implementation phase, when commitments are concretised into tangible investments. The second is the presence and interest of civil society organizations and better still, of the citizenry in general. This condition is decisive for the sustainability of the exercise. The third is a clear and shared definition of the rules of the game. These rules refer to the amounts to be discussed, the stages and their respective time periods, the rules for decision-making (and in the case of disagreement, the responsibility and decision-making authority of each actor), the method of distributing responsibility, authority and resources among the different districts and n
