What is it about?
This article provides a rare examination of the external promotion of PB, in this case through a U.S.-financed development project in post-war El Salvador. Externally promoted PB is compared against endogenously developed Latin American experiences and against guiding features for effective PB. External practitioners are found to face the same constraints as those advocating home-grown efforts. Interviews with local officials four years after the project’s conclusion reveal that PB’s sustainability is limited. PB’s benefits are likewise circumscribed, yet important given the unfavorable environment for its introduction.
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Why is it important?
The study examines the evidence for sustainability of participatory budgeting in a post-conflict, developing country setting, based on research conducted five years after participatory budgeting was introduced in 28 municipalities with external project support.
Perspectives
In recent decades, participatory budgeting has proven to be popular in developing countries around the world and with international aid agency governance-support programs. This article seeks to determine the degree to which participatory budgeting is sustained, long after the aid project the helped introduce it has ended. This is a rare, if not unique, approach to the study of participatory budgeting.
Gary Bland
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This page is a summary of: Supporting Post-conflict Democratic Development? External Promotion of Participatory Budgeting in El Salvador, World Development, May 2011, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.09.010.
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