Participatory budgeting is a process that allows citizens to decide how to allocate parts of a public budget. This document discusses how participatory budgeting can ensure good governance. It provides benefits like increased citizen participation, transparency, and accountability. The document also outlines challenges like lack of political will and citizen education. It argues that participatory budgeting has led to improved services, empowerment, and local democracy in places it has been implemented. Therefore, participatory budgeting is necessary to ensure people's participation in decision making and sustainable development.

1. THE IMPACT
OF
PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING
TO ENSURE
GOOD GOVERNANCE
Guided by
Mrs Sabina Yasmin
Assistant Professor
Department of Public Administration
Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet

2. The Impact of Participatory Budgeting to Ensure Good Governance
Participatory Budgeting is a process of budgeting which offers citizens an
opportunity to learn about government operations
Citizen involvement in the government budget process has strengthened
governance through increased dialogue and transparency which leads a
governance towards good governance.
Good Governance is the central issue of sustainable development, the concept
participatory budgeting has gained enormous popularity.

3. The Impact of Participatory Budgeting to Ensure Good Governance
Objectives of the Study
• To identify how Participatory budgeting work as tool for Ensuring Good
Governance.
• To examine the problems faced by the local level government units of Bangladesh in
participatory budgeting
• To study how the participatory budgeting leads to the direct democracy.
• To identify how Participatory budgeting creates citizen involvement,
facilities public service, in Local and National Level.

4. The Impact of Participatory Budgeting to Ensure Good Governance
• What is Participatory Budgeting?
• What are the role of citizen in Participatory Budgeting?
• What are the specific ways that citizens are incorporated into
the Participatory Budgeting process?
• What are the motivations for different actors to
participate?
• What are the limitations?
• How does participatory budgeting work in
practice?
Participatory Budgeting

5. The Impact of Participatory Budgeting to Ensure Good Governance
Participatory Budgeting
Origin
Benefits
• in Brazil in 1989
The city of Porto Alegre
Participatory Budgeting- -
• increases opportunities for participation
• break down barriers between citizens and government
• strengthens local authorities
• make infrastructure and services more relevant
• enhances accountability in budget

6. The Impact of Participatory Budgeting to Ensure Good Governance
Good Governance
Good governance is the process by which public institutions take decisions in
consultation with stakeholders to coordinate (or govern) public affairs and
manage public resources.
Indicators of Good Governance

7. The Impact of Participatory Budgeting to Ensure Good Governance
Participatory Budgeting and Local Government
• Local government is a type of government which is organized locally
with a small area of a country. It is the lowest tier of a state.
• Participatory Budgeting ensures the people participation in local
government decision making process.
Urban Local Government
Rural Local Government

8. The Impact of Participatory Budgeting to Ensure Good Governance
Participatory Budgeting in Bangladesh
• In 2000
• In Sirajganj
• The government of Bangladesh, and the UNDP, and the
UNCDF
• Grants about $6,000 to each union
• Involved up to 500 people
Major lessons:
• can ensure sustainable development.
• can create people’s discontent against
• can facilitate participatory democracy
• can be utilized in achieving targets

9. The Impact of Participatory Budgeting to Ensure Good Governance
Why Participatory Budgeting is Necessary?
• For Ensuring the peoples participation in the decision-making process
From every area of a country.
People’s participation is the very essential for a democratic system.
Without the participation of people, a democratic system cannot run
properly.
• An inhabitant of a locality knowns about the problems of his locality better
than the policy makers.
• Through this budget, the real development of a locality is ensured.

10. The Impact of Participatory Budgeting to Ensure Good Governance
Impact of Participatory Budgeting to Ensure Good
Governance
• Participation Improve:
• Accountability of Public Officials
• Accountability of Elected representatives,
• Promote Better Democracy,
• and More Trust in Government
Participatory governance can provide a strong foundation for
establishing good governance.

11. The Impact of Participatory Budgeting to Ensure Good Governance
Participatory Budgeting and Citizen Participation
Citizens are involved Throughout the entire Budget Cycle, in:
 Identifying and prioritizing
 Preparing a budget proposal
 Overseeing the budget approval process
 Monitoring budget execution,
 Monitoring procurement and
 Monitoring the implementation of projects

12. The Impact of Participatory Budgeting to Ensure Good Governance
Participatory Budgeting and Direct Democracy
Offer citizens a means to communicate
with their representatives between
election cycles.
Participatory budgeting ensure the
direct democracy

13. The Impact of Participatory Budgeting to Ensure Good Governance
Public services include
services provided by a
government to people living
within its jurisdiction.
Participatory Budgeting and Public Service

14. The Impact of Participatory Budgeting to Ensure Good Governance
• Participatory budgeting allows citizens
to negotiate with government officials
over budgetary allocation and its
investment priorities.
Participatory Budgeting and Public Service
• Participation contributes to better public
policy and better policy implementation.

15. The Impact of Participatory Budgeting to Ensure Good Governance
Participatory Budgeting and State Budget
Where the government funds should be allocated?
This Reflects the Citizen’s will

16. The Impact of Participatory Budgeting to Ensure Good Governance
Participatory Budgeting and Development
Participatory budgeting is considered as a tool for development. It is
at the heart of sustainable development and poverty reduction
Funding goes to:
• Infrastructure and services for local economic
development
• Neighborhood-level facilities
• District health facilities
• New settlements
• Education facilities and parks

17. The Impact of Participatory Budgeting to Ensure Good Governance
How the Participatory Budgeting in Local Level Ensure the
Citizen Participation in National Level

18. The Impact of Participatory Budgeting to Ensure Good Governance
Challenges in implementing Participatory Budgeting
 Political will.
 interest groups
 illegitimate and unjust exercise of power.
 Low levels of citizen education
 Lack of transportation
 Regulated and monitored civic participation
 Bangladesh’s male-dominated culture

19. The Impact of Participatory Budgeting to Ensure Good Governance
Recommendations:
 Establishment of appropriate institutional structure of local authority
Rising awareness and understanding about Participatory Budgeting
Using various types of communication medium.
Involve the citizen through dialogue.
The government should ensure democracy, freedom of speech,
The government should be a proper “Peoples Government”.
Government should aware the general people

20. The Impact of Participatory Budgeting to Ensure Good Governance
Participatory budgeting is the way to ensure peoples participation in the local level and ensure the
good governance. Benefits of participatory budgeting include, among others, improved
governance; empowerment of citizens; improved information sharing; deepening local democracy;
increased public ownership of development projects and reduced corruption; all of which led to
improved services delivery. If any state can implement it properly, this state will be the developed
welfare state after a certain time. So, every non-developed country should take some necessary
stapes to implement this important system in their local government to ensure democracy and
good governance.

21. Name Registration No
Abu Bakar 2018237036
Fokhrul Islam 2018237039
Borkatullah Joy 2018237060
Md. A. Joheb Sharear 2018237065
Md. Habibur Rahman 2018237094
Nazmul Ahasan 2017237046
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