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What is Participatory Budget?

It's a public policy tool to engage and increase public participation in local government decision-making by funding ideas generated and debated by the population. The Municipality of Lisbon was the first European capital to implement Participatory Budgeting in 2008, through Deliberation No. 506/CM/2008 approved at a City Council meeting, as published on July 9, 2008, in the 3rd supplement to Municipal Bulletin No. 751.

Objectives

  • Encouraging dialogue among elected officials, municipal technicians, citizens, and organized civil society in seeking the best solutions to problems considering the available resources.
  • Contribute to civic education, enabling citizens to integrate their personal concerns with the common good, understand the complexity of issues, and develop attitudes, competencies, and practices of participation.
  • Adjust municipal public policies to the needs and expectations of the people, to improve the quality of life in the city.
  • Increase the transparency of the activities of the Municipality, the level of accountability of elected officials and the municipal structure, contributing to reinforce the quality of democracy.
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