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Participatory Budgeting (Porto Alegre)Residents directly decide how part of the municipal budget is spent via assemblies and delegate votes.Planeación Local y Presupuesto Participativo de Medellín (PLyPP)Institutionalized process through which the citizens of Medellín's 16 comunas and 5 corregimientos plan the development of their territory and decide, through an annual vote, the allocation of 5% of the municipality's discretionary investment budget. It operates in four phases (planning, prioritization, execution, monitoring). Legal basis: Acuerdo 043 of 2007, Acuerdo 028 of 2017 and Decreto 0473 of 2024. In 2024 the vote (16-24 Nov) allocated close to 439.000 million pesos for 2025 projects.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).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 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).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).