Porto Alegre: Participatory Budgeting and the Challenge of Sustaining Transformative Change
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This case study in the World Resources Report, "Towards a More Equal City," examines transformative urban change in Porto Alegre, Brazil, through the lens of participatory budgeting. The research focuses on whether and how transformative change has taken place in the city between 1990 and the present.
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Participatory budgeting initiatives in Brazil empower communities to influence public resource allocation, ensuring equitable access to essential social services.
“Examples include participatory budgeting initiatives in Brazil, which empower communities to influence public resource allocation, ensuring equitable access to essential social services41, as well as community-based health insurance schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa, which pool risks to enhance healthcare accessibility42.”
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The Abstract says Porto Alegre residents helped set public-investment priorities, and “Redistributing urban infrastructure and service provision” reports increased services in historically underserved neighborhoods. But this is a case study of Porto Alegre, not Brazilian initiatives generally, and it does not establish that participatory budgeting ensures equitable access to essential services. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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- Abers, R., Robin, R., Votto, D., & Brandão, I.
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- 2018-06
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