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● projectScaled · systemic · 1996

Kerala People's Plan Campaign

In 1996 the Kerala State Planning Board launched the People's Plan Campaign, transferring about 35-40% of the state plan's development budget to 1,214 local governments (panchayats and municipalities).

Close-up of a wooden judge's gavel resting on a deskillustrative atlas image · Sora Shimazaki / Pexels
KSKerala State Planning BoardgovernmentTTT.M. Thomas IsaacPHPatrick HellerKHK.N. Harilal
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01 The context

Citizens identify needs and prioritize projects in gram sabhas and development seminars with trained facilitators: the most ambitious exercise in decentralized participatory planning and budgeting in the subcontinent.

02 How it works

method · Decentralized planning and budgeting (Panchayati Raj), gram/ward sabhasmethod · Participatory local planning / community prioritization of projects by votingtool · Small-group facilitation and ward-level prioritization exercises

03 What it stands on

Evidence level
Own experience
Grounded in published theory
Documented evidence elsewhere
Independently evaluated here
Peer-reviewed research documents this project: the strongest evidence level in the atlas.
The evidence 2 ›
EvidenceBuilding Local Democracy: Evaluating the Impact of Decentralization in Kerala, IndiaWorld Development 35(4), 626-648 (Heller, Harilal & Chaudhuri) · 2007
EvidenceCampaign for Democratic Decentralisation in KeralaSocial Scientist (T.M. Thomas Isaac & Richard Franke) · 2001

04 Go to the source

Visit the official site ↗lsgd.kerala.gov.in