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Title Participatory Budgeting: Building Participatory Democracy and/or Improving Municipal Finance Day / Time Wednesday, June 21st / 16:30 - 18:30 Room MR12 Event Description The purpose of this event is to promote a cross-regional dialogue on Participatory Budgeting (PB), reviewing its current trends and challenges in the international context. More specifically, it expects to promote networking, disseminate information and knowledge and turn visible the potential of PB to improve governance, democracy, and urban management. This open discussion will result in a wide impulse to mature an international agenda on PB at global level. Session Language English French Spanish Speakers (information as provided by host organization) Yves Cabannes & Giovanni Allegretti Mayors of Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte, Dondo and Matam Directors fo CIGU and MDP   Contact Need more information about this event? Please fill the contact form Related Documents (in English and / or French) Host Organization International Center for Urban Management (CIGU), Belo Horizonte & Porto Alegre Municipalities & Municipal Development Program (MDP-ESA) Host Organization Description The local governments of Porto Alegre and Belo Horizonte, two pioneering and leading cities of participatory budgeting in Brazil, together with two African Municipalities that recently have initiated their own processes, Dondo, Mozambique, and Matam, Senegal, have joined the initiative of the International Center of Urban Management (CIGU) and the Municipal Development Partnership (MDP) for organizing the networking event Participatory Budgeting: Building Participatory Democracy and Improving Municipal Finance in the framework of the WUF3. Website (Organizer and partners) www.cigu.org/

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