What are the potentials and the challenges of citizen participation in local government?
What do the different experiences have in common?
What are the lessons learned and how do these shape policies?
Findings:
Participatory approaches to budgeting provides more transparency
Participatory planning ranges from small projects to large ones to strategic area planning to rebuilding cities to human rights
New forms of partnerships such as Local Strategic Partnerships (LSP) in the U.K., co-governors (Brazil and Philippines)