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● projectActive · subnational · 2012
I Change My City and My City My Budget (Janaagraha)
Janaagraha runs I Change My City, a civic web and mobile platform launched in 2012 that connects citizens with municipal agencies to report and resolve infrastructure complaints, and its flagship participatory budgeting campaign My City My Budget.
illustrative atlas image · Joshua Hoehne / UnsplashJCJanaagraha Centre for Citizenship and DemocracySRSwati RamanathanRRRamesh Ramanathan
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01 The context
In Bengaluru, with the BBMP, the campaign collected 16,261 proposals from the 243 wards in 31 days (2021-22 cycle), several of them incorporated into the municipal budget.
02 How it works
03 What it stands on
Evidence level
Own experience
Grounded in published theory
Documented evidence elsewhere
Independently evaluated here
2 published documents support this project. No independent evaluation is in the atlas yet. Know of any? Contribute it.
The evidence 2 ›
EvidenceTransforming urban life in India: How Janaagraha puts people at the heart of governancePeople Powered · 2023
EvidenceMy City My Budget: Janaagraha to submit data to BBMP MayorCitizen Matters · 2022