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16LabCampesino (peasant laboratory for the transition to agroecology)Community open-innovation laboratory driven by the peasant organization Tierra Libre in the Sumapaz province (Fusagasugá and Pasca, Cundinamarca). Rural youth co-create situated, open-hardware technologies for territorial management and the agroecological transition, linked to community biofactories and the Agroecological Peasant Schools (ECAs). It combines agroecology, co-creation and community organizing through participatory action research.Sarar Transformación - school ecological sanitation (Mi Escuela Saludable / TepozEco)Multidisciplinary consulting group based in Tepoztlán, Morelos, specialized in decentralized ecological sanitation (ecosan) with a participatory approach. It drove the TepozEco urban pilot project (2003-2006) and brought school ecological sanitation (composting toilets and urine-diverting dry toilets, sand filters for greywater) to schools in Morelos and the Sierra de Oaxaca. Its SARAR method empowers communities to plan, implement and monitor their own systems.San José Chiltepec community water resources management committeeA participatory process in the Chinantec municipality of San José Chiltepec, Oaxaca, through which ejido and municipal authorities, local leaders and young people formed a community committee to address the contamination of surface water sources and the drinking water supply. The committee designed internal regulations for the sanitation of water sources, validated by the community assembly. Accompanied by EcoLogic Development Fund and the Fondo Ambiental Regional de la Chinantla.Pune participatory budgeting (My City, My Money)Started in 2006 by the Pune Municipal Corporation with Janwani and the Centre for Environment Education, it allowed residents to propose neighborhood projects for the municipal budget. After an initial phase with public prioritization meetings and direct voting, the deliberative assemblies ceased after 2008 and the mechanism degraded into an online consultative form, with low participation (600 proposals in 2012-13 for a city of 3.5 million) and exclusion of marginalized neighborhoods (13% of the PB budget in 2013-14).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. 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.Mexico City participatory budgetingMechanism through which the residents of CDMX's territorial units decide by public consultation how to spend a percentage of each borough's budget (3% since 2010, 4% since the 2019 reform). It is organized in information, selection and evaluation assemblies, with citizen voting, administered by the IECM together with the boroughs and the Community Participation Commissions. In 2024, ~1,407 evaluation assemblies were held, covering more than 1,785 territorial units and 50 pueblos. In 2025 the cycle remained active (registration Feb-May, voting 17 Aug, assemblies Sep-Dec).Kerala People's Plan CampaignIn 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). 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.PlaN A - National Agroecology Plan (AGROSAVIA)R&D&I initiative led by AGROSAVIA with the MADR to implement agroecological technologies and generate participatory knowledge in prioritized peasant territories and peasant reserve zones. In its first phase it worked on biofactories of biopreparations, composting, beekeeping, soil fertility, coffee post-harvest processing and crop-livestock integration in 14 departments. It is one of 14 projects under the MADR's Meta 25.Sustainable Milpa in the Yucatan PeninsulaParticipatory innovation project that works with Maya maize farmers in the Yucatan Peninsula to make the milpa system more productive and sustainable without losing its cultural foundation. It combines conservation agriculture, agroecological pest and weed management, integrated soil fertility, safeguarding of native seeds and market linkages, using five-station demonstration plots and a co-innovation and social inclusion strategy.StreekWaar (agroecological bioregional network of the Wageningen region)Association (Vereniging producenten lokaal en ecologisch voedsel Gelderland) of around forty agroecological food producers in the region of Wageningen, Ede, Renkum and part of the Betuwe: farmers, horticulturists, processors (mills, cheesemakers, bakers, brewers), shops and caterers. It runs a weekly Streekmarkt in Wageningen and a participatory guarantee system (PGS). Within the SHARED GREEN DEAL project it articulated a bioregional weaving experiment with assemblies in Sep 2023 (Walled Garden CSA, Renkum) and Feb 2024 (Remeker).Participatory Budgeting (Porto Alegre)Residents directly decide how part of the municipal budget is spent via assemblies and delegate votes.West Pokot County Participatory Budget HearingsParticipatory budgeting of West Pokot County that brings deliberation down to the sub-location level (222 sub-locations), especially for remote and marginalized communities. It uses open public forums, preferential voting and consensus, selection of delegates for ward-level validation, and feedback mechanisms on implementation. The first phase (2016) gathered more than 11,500 participants; women's participation grew from 2,257 (2014/15) to 10,173 (2016/17).Makueni County Participatory Budgeting FrameworkParticipatory budgeting model of Makueni County that takes budget deliberation below the ward level: village, village cluster, sub-ward and ward. It was born in response to the elite capture of the 2014/15 cycle. It combines mass civic education (990 interlocutors trained since 2013), deliberative forums by thematic groups, preferential voting, technical appraisal by economists and sector officers, and project management committees. It involves about 135,000 people (15% of the population) per fiscal cycle.West Begroot (participatory budgeting, Amsterdam-West)Neighborhood participatory budgeting in the West district (stadsdeel) of Amsterdam: residents propose plans to improve their neighborhood and then vote on how to distribute an annual budget of 300.000 euros. In the 2025 round, 8.816 residents aged 12 and up voted among the proposed plans and 21 plans are being implemented (half 'activities', half 'physical'). It relies on digital participation tools (OpenStad lineage, Amsterdam's open source platform). It is one of several 'Begroot' schemes in the city.Map KiberaParticipatory community mapping initiative that turned Kibera (one of the largest informal settlements in Nairobi) from a blank space on OpenStreetMap into a detailed, open digital map. Young residents were trained to collect geospatial data with GPS and mobile phones, edit it in OSM and produce information on schools, water, sanitation, safety, street lighting and health. It includes Voice of Kibera (SMS/Ushahidi reports) and Kibera News Network (citizen video).Digital Green: participatory video for agricultural extensionDigital Green disseminates agricultural information to smallholder farmers in India through participatorily produced digital video: content production with local farmers, a video database, facilitator-mediated instruction and an introduction sequence for new communities. It relies on women's self-help groups via JEEViKA and NRLM. Since mid-2023 it evolved into Farmer.Chat, a multimodal generative AI assistant (with OpenAI and Gooey.AI); the GAIA II phase runs 2025-2027.