Blog
Reema Patel
The RSA's Citizens' Economic Council recently attended the Scottish government's international conference on participatory budgeting - sharing and exploring best practice in democratic innovations from across the world. The following week, Portugal announced the world's first ever national participatory budget and election candidates for combined authorities in the UK saw calls in the media to commit to participatory democracy. Reema Patel argues that delivering a high quality, effective and meaningful participatory budgeting process is of the utmost importance - it's not just what you do but also how you do it.