Participatory Budget for Slovakia

According to the model of Porto Alegre, so-called participatory budgets are to be introduced in Slovakian cities and other municipalities (citizen household budgets) as a democratic form of budget creation in which citizens without political mandate are invited to take part in the process of planning the public budget. The goal is always to institutionalise the participatory process. That was achieved in late 2011 in Bratislava, where the part of the budget that can be drawn up as a participatory budget by the population is still small. Further approaches have been tried in the cities of Ruzomberok and Mlynska Dolina. Participatory budgets are currently focused on transport, culture, seniors, youth, and ecology in terms of content.