International Congress
on Participatory Budgeting Models
21.01. - 22.01.2010 – InWEnt Congress Centre, Stresemannstr. 92, 10963 Berlin
Programme:
First day
12.00 -13.55 Opening &Thematic introduction
- Greeting, Thomas Krüger, President Federal Agency for Civic Education
- Greeting, Dr. Béatrice von Hirschhausen, Centre Marc Bloch
- Greeting and Presentation: Challenges for the local development cooperation
Anita Reddy, Head of Service Agency Communities in One World, InWEnt gGmbH
- Models of participatory budgeting and the transformation in Germany, Dr. Carsten Herzberg,
Centre Marc Bloch
- Filmlet on a local experience of participatory budgeting
- Short discussion
14.10-17.40 Workshops (incl. coffee break)
Workshop I: National and international examples of participatory budgeting
Workshop II: Representative democracy, federalism and civil education
Workshop III: Social justice and Gender Budgeting
Workshop IV: Media, modernisation, and evaluation of participatory budgets
17.45-18.30 Learning from the Global South?
- Film on an international experiences of participatory budgeting
- International networks. Possibilities of cooperation for municipalities, Dr. Giovanni Allegretti, Centro
Estudos Socias, Portugal
18.30 Dinner & End
Second day
9.30-12.45 Workshops (repetition with modified focuses)
12.45-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-15.00 Presentation of the workshop’s results
15.00 End
Workshops 1st day (21st of January 2010)
Forum I:
National and international examples
of participatory budgeting
Forum II:
Representative
democracy,
federalism and civil education
Forum III:
Social justice and Gender Budgeting
Forum IV:
Media, modernisation and evaluation
Moderator: Volker Vorwerk,
buergerwissen
Method: presentations/commentary
Moderator: Ralf Elsässer,
CIVIXX
Method: World Café
Moderators: Marlene Grauer, Florian
Rister, Teamglobal
Method: Fishbowl
Moderator: Benno Trütken,
forum b
Method: Panel discussion
- Participatory budgeting in the context
Table 1: Participatory budgets in the
- Introduction to Gender Mainstreaming
- Evaluation of participatory budgets
of the governmental economic stimulus
federal system of Germany
and Gender Budgeting
Prof. Dr. Helmut Klages, German
package against the financial crisis
Ulrike Loehr, lawyer
Manfred Köhnen, Gleichstellung
Research Institute for Public
bewegen,
Administration Speyer
Andreas Hoge, mayor of Steinfurt
Table 2: Civic education and
- Participatory budgeting in Sweden
participatory budgeting
- Possibilities and Chances of Gender
- Quality criteria of participatory budgets
Lena Langlet, Swedish Association of
Christa Widmaier
Budgeting through participatory budget
in the UK
institutions
Ruth Jackson, PB Unit (Great Britain)
Local Authorities and Regions
Table 3: Proximity Participation –
Graciela Ciciliani, Municipality of
- Participatory budgeting in Spain:
Which challenges?
Rosario (Argentina)
Mobilisation of citizens
Prof. Dr. Jochen Franzke, Potsdam
implementation of participatory
Dr. Ernesto Ganuza, IESA (Spain)
University
budgeting
- The role of public employees in the
Michaela Maurer, KGSt
Commentary: Nicholas Bach, Institute
Table 4: Experiences with participatory
Nexus
budgeting in China,
- Governance, modernisation and
Prof. Dr. He Baogang, (China)
Participation
Prof. Dr. Norbert Kersting, Stellenbosch
University (South Africa)
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Workshops 2nd day (22nd of January 2010)
Forum I:
National and international examples
of participatory budgeting
Forum II:
Representative
democracy,
federalism and civil education
Forum III:
Social justice and Gender Budgeting
Forum IV:
Media, modernisation and evaluation
Moderator: Volker Vorwerk,
buergerwissen
Method: Presentations/commentary
Moderator: Ralf Elsässer,
CIVIXX
Method: World Café
Moderators: Marlene Grauer, Florian
Rister, Teamglobal
Method: Fishbowl
Moderator: Benno Trütken,
forum b
Method: Panel discussion
- Participatory budgets in big cities
Table 1: Participation of children –
- Participatory budgeting and
- Possibilities of participatory budgeting
Christina Emmerich, mayor of the
experiences from several cases
community housing: Toronto
via Internet
district Berlin-Lichtenberg
Thomas Ködelpeter, Association
Steve Floros, Director Toronto
Dr. Oliver Märker, Zebralog
Ecologic Academy
Community Housing (Canada)
- Sevilla: A Porto Alegre in Europe?
- The example of the German city of
Dr. Ernesto Ganuza, Consejo Superior
Table 2: Participatory budgeting in high
- How to activate marginalised target
Cologne
de Investigaciones Científicas (Spain)
schools – the experience of the French
groups?
Jürgen Behrendt, Municipality of
region of Poitou-Charentes
Nils Scheffler
Cologne
- Social effects of participatory
- Random selection as instrument for
budgeting in Brazil
mobilisation?
Prof. Dr. Leonardo Avritzer (Brasil)
Prof. Dr. He Baogang, (China)
- Participatory Budgets in Africa
Dr. Anja Röcke, Humboldt University
George Matovu, MDPESA (Zimbabwe)
Berlin
- Commentary: Prof. Dr. Josh Lerner,
Table 3: Strengthening democracy
New School for Social Research (New
through cooperation: the example of
York, USA)
Portugal and Cape Verde
Dr. Giovanni Allegretti, Centro Estudos
Sociais (Portugal)
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