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Porto Alegre: Participatory Budgeting and the Challenge of Sustaining Transformative Change

Rebecca Abers; Robin King; Daniely Votto; Igor Brandão · World Resources Institute (World Resources Report case study) · 2018

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Report
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Rebecca Abers; Robin King; Daniely Votto; Igor Brandão
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DOI 10.46830/wriwrr.18.00005
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2026-09-01

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EstablishedMore than 80% of the 5,556 projects in Porto Alegre's PB investment plans for 1994-2004 were completed by the end of 2004, but only 42% of the 3,712 projects in the plans for 2005-2016 had been completed by early 2017; a new mayor announced a two-year suspension of the process in March 2017.EstablishedA 2018 World Resources Institute case study concludes that political commitment was key to the success of Porto Alegre's participatory budget, that declining support led to fewer resources allocated through open assemblies, culminating in its suspension in 2017, and that it worked better for small neighbourhood projects than for large-scale ones.