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2024-04-15

Call for proposals for sessions or interventions at the IOPD 2024 Conference in Valongo
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2024-04-11

Barcelona hosted a seminar on Policies and technologies for participatory democracy
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2024-03-27

Interview with Annabelle Bretton, Councilwoman in charge of participatory democracy in Grenoble
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2024-03-26

Call to join the jury of the 18th IOPD Award
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2024-02-27

The IOPD participates in the 2024 UCLG Retreat and Annual Campus
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2024-02-15

The call for the 2024 IOPD Award is now open!
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2024-02-06

IOPD calls for peer learning sessions
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2024-01-29

Córdoba will host the 24th conference of the International Observatory on Participatory Democracy
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2023-11-20

Rio de Janeiro Declaration: Driving Measures to Strengthen Participatory Democracy and Address Global Challenges
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2023-11-08

Rio de Janeiro hosted the 22nd IOPD Conference from 6 to 8 November 2023
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2023-11-08

Rennes wins the 17th IOPD Award
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2023-10-25

IOPD General Assembly 2023: We Invite Our Membership to Participate
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2023-10-25

Apply to be the first IOPD woman Co-Chair to champion for gender equality in our network!
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2023-10-25

Become Part of the Leadership of Our Network
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2023-10-11

Barcelona kicks off its activities as 1st European Capital of Democracy (ECoD) 2023-2024
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2023-09-18

IOPD organised a webinar for the International Day of Democracy 2023
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2023-09-14

Call to host the 24th IOPD Conference in 2025
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2023-09-12

IOPD Interview: Municipality of Iztapalapa (Mexico City)
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2023-09-04

The IOPD is participating on the 8th Open Government Partnership Global Summit
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2023-09-01

You can now vote for your favourite practice for the 17th IOPD Award!
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2023-08-04

IOPD publishes a policy paper on Feminism and Participatory Democracy
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2023-08-03

Upcoming IOPD webinar: International Day of Democracy
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2023-07-31

Bogota has organized the International Congress on Participatory Budgeting
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2023-07-11

IOPD Interview: District Institute of Participation and Community Action of Bogota
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2023-07-10

IOPD organized a session on co-creation in the localization of the SDGs
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2023-07-07

Finalists for the 17 IOPD Award
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2023-06-30

Call for proposals for sessions or interventions at the IOPD 2023 Conference
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2023-06-26

DecidimKids: a new digital module for child participation in Barcelona
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2023-06-20

The IOPD took part in the 7th European Meeting on Participation
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2023-06-15

The City of Montreal launches the Réflexion 2050 consultation on the City Project
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2023-06-14

PeoplePowerd Accelerator - Create democratic solutions for climate and digital challenges
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2023-06-07

149 applications submitted for the 17th IOPD Award 2023!
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2023-06-02

Upcoming IOPD webinar: Co-creation in the localization of the SDGs
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2023-05-26

Valongo promotes the UTOPIA session in collaboration with the Lab2050 project
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2023-05-19

The IOPD co-organizes the UCLG Future Envisioning Exercise: Regaining Trust
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2023-05-10

The Grenoble Citizens' Climate Convention puts forward 219 proposals for action
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2023-05-08

São Paulo will host the Open Government Week 2023
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2023-05-05

IOPD participates in the 17 Rooms 2023 initiative
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2023-05-04

Barcelona: First European Capital of Democracy
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2023-04-27

The City of Rio de Janeiro launches the Global Network of Anti-Racist Cities
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2023-04-26

Bogota to invest 30 million pesos in incentives to promote innovation in participation
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2023-04-25

Call for applications to join the juries of the 17th IOPD Award
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2023-04-24

Parisians vote in referendum to remove electric scooters for hire from the capital's streets
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2023-04-21

Arantzazulab publishes the first results of the project 'Conceptions of democracy in the Basque Country'
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2023-04-19

SAVE THE DATE for 2023 IOPD Conference
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2023-04-12

The call for the 2023 IOPD Award is now open!
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2023-04-04

The IOPD organized a session on Municipal Feminism: Towards the political participation of women in all their diversity!
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2022-12-13

Grenoble hosted the 21st IOPD Conference from December 7 to 10, 2022
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2022-12-14

Grenoble Declaration: the ecological transition and social justice will only be achieved with the participation of all!
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2022-12-12

The Greater Manchester Combined Authority has won the 16th Award Best Practice in Citizen Participation
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2022-11-23

Call for nominations of Promoter Member
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2022-11-11

Call for the IOPD General Assembly 2022
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2022-10-21

Cascais hosted the 5th Iberian Meeting on Democracy and Participatory Budgeting
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2022-10-18

UCLG Congress took place in Daejeon from October 10 to 14
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2022-10-14

IOPD Award finalists unveiled at UCLG Congress in Daejeon
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2022-10-07

Two months before the IOPD Conference in Grenoble: important information
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2022-10-04

UCLG Congress and World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders
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2022-09-28

The IOPD participates in the Global Forum for Modern Direct Democracy 2022
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2022-09-27

Call to host the IOPD Conference in 2024
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2022-07-14

Definitive list of finalist candidatures for the 16th IOPD Award
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2022-07-13

Grenoble organizes the 48 hours of Cities in Transition - New Urban Proximities
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2022-07-04

Barcelona adopts new citizen participation regulations that update direct democracy mechanisms
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2022-06-23

The open evaluation of the 16th IOPD Award has ended.
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2022-06-20

IOPD participates in the 2022 UCLG Executive Bureau
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2022-06-09

Commenting and voting phase of candidacies for the IOPD Award begins
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2022-05-19

Recovering the history of the IOPD: share your memories
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2022-05-17

Contributions to create the Participatory Democracy Index are now open
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2022-05-13

Call for proposals for the IOPD 2022 Conference
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2022-04-22

Registration is open to form part of the working groups for the development of indicators of participatory democracy
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2022-04-22

Barcelona promotes child participation
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2022-04-05

Montreal launches a city-wide consultation to develop the 2050 Mobility and Urban Plan
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2022-03-16

The call for the 2022 IOPD Award is now open
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2022-03-04

The Crossroads of Sustainability, Climate Change and Health : practical approaches and lessons for the post-covid cities and territories
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2022-03-02

UCLG meets at the retreat preceding the Daejeon Congress in October
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2022-02-07

The IOPD begins the development of a quality index of participatory democracy
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2021-12-07

IOPD held its 20th Conference's Virtual Week
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2021-11-16

The City of Lima has won the 15th Best Practice in Citizen Participation Award
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2021-10-27

Cocody hosted the 20th IOPD Conference on Sustainable Cities/Territories and Participatory Democracy
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2021-10-13

Call to host the IOPD Conference in 2023
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2021-10-11

The IOPD participated in the 2nd World Forum of Intermediary Cities
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2021-09-29

Berliners voted in favor to expropriate big landlords in referendum
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2021-09-15

2021 International Day of Democracy
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2021-09-10

Paris tests majority voting in the participatory budget
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2021-09-02

Next Local Democracy Talks on Participatory Climate Action will be held next September 15
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2021-08-30

"Culture: Shaping the Future" The UCLG Culture Summit
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2021-07-28

The 20th IOPD conference will be held the 20, 21 and 22 October in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
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2021-06-21

Barcelona's first participatory budgets achieve a participation of nearly 39,500 people
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2021-06-03

Barcelona transforms the former Canódromo into the Ateneo de Innovación Digital y Democrática (Digital and Democratic Innovation Lab)
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2021-06-02

Call to join the jury of the 15h IOPD Award
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2021-06-01

Commenting and voting phase of the 15th IOPD Award has finished
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2021-05-28

Local leaders share experiences on participatory budgeting
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2021-05-17

Commenting and voting phase of candidacies for the IOPD Award begins
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2021-05-12

On 27 May the panel Participatory Budget: Let Citizens Decide will take place
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2021-05-07

Three mayors share experiences and challenges on citizen participation practices
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2021-05-04

Consultation on Reinventing Democracy in Intermediary Cities
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2021-04-26

UCLG will organize on April 30th a session on Intermediary Cities and reinventing local democracy
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2021-04-22

Webinar on participatory budgeting and ecological transition
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2021-04-21

IOPD co-organises with UCLG MEWA a webinar on civic engagement
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2021-04-13

The IOPD will host a webinar on the Contributions of Participatory Budgeting to Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
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2021-04-09

Consultation on the Myanmar crisis held by Gwangju city: Call for human rights cities solidarity
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2021-04-08

The citizens of Barcelona cast nearly 48,000 endorsements of the participatory budget projects and prioritized the 204 projects that will be submitted to the final vote
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2021-03-29

The role of local participatory democracy practices in advancing urban equality: A conversation between UCLG-CSIPDHR and IOPD members
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2021-03-08

On International Women's Day 2021 we call for the effective participation of women in public affairs
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2021-03-05

The IOPD hosts a series of webinars on the role of participatory budgeting in the ecological transition
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2021-02-12

The call for the 2021 IOPD Award is now open
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2021-02-12

On hold since March, participatory budgets are reactivated in Barcelona
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2021-02-11

UCLG Retreat & Campus takes place 15-22 February
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2021-02-03

People Powered launches "How to Start a Climate Assembly" online course
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2021-02-01

New regulations for volunteering and citizen consultation for youth and children in Lima
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2021-01-27

The OCPM announces the consultation on the University of Montreal development project
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2021-01-04

European Democracy action plan presented by the European Union
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2020-12-24

Barcelona opens a new space for participation by young people
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2020-12-18

"Women's interests might be perceived as something particular to them, leading to harmful decisions for 50% of the population"
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2020-12-16

"Since Participatory Budgeting, we have seen an uptick in local elections and boarding commission applications"
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2020-12-15

A panel on the lessons learnt on local democracy was held on 14 December
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2020-12-04

Philadelphia Announces Participatory Budgeting to Reduce Racial Disparities
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2020-12-02

Barcelona City Council presents the new Municipal Action Plan
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2020-11-24

Decalogue for Participatory Slum Upgrading programmes in pandemic times
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2020-11-23

Call for Contributions to the 2021 Work Plan
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2020-11-17

The City and the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg announced on Friday measures to stimulate citizen participation
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2020-11-17

UCLG's World Council was held virtually on 9-13 November
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2020-10-28

France's Rencontres Nationales de la Participation were held on 19-23 October
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2020-10-27

Local Participatory Budgeting has been institutionalised in Benin
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2020-10-26

The 4th International Conference Paths to Follow was held on 19 and 20 October
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2020-10-14

Reactions of Local and Regional Governments to UN75 Report
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2020-10-08

The IOPD co-organised an international gathering on participatory democracy
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2020-10-14

The Participatory Budget of Lisbon received the Best Practices of Participation Award 2019.
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2020-10-05

The City of Buenos Aires has been awarded the 14th Award
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2020-10-01

A Virtual Meeting on Participatory Democracy will be held on 5 October
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2020-09-29

The city of Valongo will celebrate the European week of local democracy 2020
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2020-07-20

UCLG has called for maintaining the SDGs as the framework in the 2020 edition of the HLPF
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2020-07-09

IOPD Africa's webinar to launch the regional consultation took place on 14 July
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2020-07-08

The International Observatory on Participatory Democracy presents its new corporate identity
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2020-07-07

International Forum on the Challenges of Citizen Participation, organized by the IECM
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2020-06-25

Live Learning Experience: Local Democracy
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2020-06-15

The Alcobendas City Council creates a School of Citizen Participation and Innovation
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2020-04-29

Call to join the jury of the 14th IOPD Award
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2020-04-28

UCLG presents its Decalogue for the COVID-19 aftermath
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2020-04-21

"Citizen Cooperation facing COVID-19" space at ParticipateOIDP platform is now open
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2020-04-17

Commenting and voting phase of the 14th IOPD Award has finished
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2020-04-01

Commenting and voting phase of IOPD Award candidacies begins
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2020-03-31

The 20th IOPD Conference has been postponed and is set to take place in 2021
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2020-03-23

Faced with isolation, citizens strength their solidarity
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2020-03-23

Citizens' and Youth Agoras overwhelmingly supported by EU Parliament
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2020-03-18

39 proposals have been submitted to the 14th IOPD Award
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2020-03-11

Survey on SDG Localization
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2020-03-09

2020 International Women's Day
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2020-03-03

The IOPD at the 6th UCLG Retreat and Campus
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2020-03-03

The IOPD collects experiences of Participatory Budgeting and Climate Change
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2020-02-28

The Warwick District Council citizens will vote on "climate action fund"
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2020-02-17

The IOPD at the WUF 10 - Cities of Opportunities: Connecting Culture and Innovation
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2020-02-11

First participatory budgeting in Barcelona
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2020-01-27

Participatory Budgeting in the City of Vancouver's West End
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2020-01-23

The call for the 2020 IOPD Award is now open!
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2020-01-17

The French Citizens' Assembly on Climate change
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2020-01-15

The IOPD will be present at the Tenth Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF 10)
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2019-12-19

2019 General Assembly outcomes
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2019-12-17

IOPD 19th Conference
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2019-12-17

Third day of the 19th IOPD International Conference in Iztapalapa
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2019-12-17

Second day of the 19th IOPD International Conference in Iztapalapa
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2019-12-17

First day of the 19h IOPD International Conference
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2019-12-13

The 20th IOPD Conference will be held in Cocody (Ivory Coast) 2020
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2019-12-11

Nariño wins the 13th IOPD Award
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2019-12-05

Decidim, the digital platform, at the service of human rights entities in Barcelona
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2019-11-28

The city of Montreal adopted its first participatory budgeting for 2020
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2019-11-26

A Citizens' Assembly about gender equality launched by the Irish government
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2019-11-25

International IDEA launches the 2019 Global State of Democracy
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2019-11-20

World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders. Durban-Ethekwini, November 2019
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2019-11-19

IOPD Special Lab at the UCLG World Summit - Listening to Citizens, Local Democracy at the Center of Governance
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2019-11-15

A national network for participatory budgets in France
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2019-11-14

Opening of a School Lab funded by participatory budgeting in NYC
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2019-11-11

The french city of Strasbourg is launching its second Participatory Budgeting
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2019-11-05

'Nazi emergency' declared in Dresden, a German city
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2019-10-30

Local Democracy will be at the core of the 2019 UCLG Congress
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2019-10-25

Conference in Valongo in the framework of the European Week of Local Democracy
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2019-10-25

From "Citizen Budget" to Participatory Budgeting in Egypt
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2019-10-22

The IOPD participated in Cascais Smart Citizenship Academy, in Portugal
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2019-10-14

Marc Serra, new IOPD Secretary General
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2019-10-11

The stage to participate in the elaboration of the IOPD General Assembly's Final Resolution is now open
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2019-10-11

Call for the IOPD 2019 General Assembly
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2019-10-11

Five youth program get funded thanks to participatory budgeting in the City of Victoria, Canada
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2019-10-10

Dublin votes in favour of a pilot projet of participatory budgeting
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2019-10-08

The IOPD participated in Taichung Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy, in Taiwan.
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2019-10-02

IOPD 13th Award Finalists
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2019-09-12

Marc Serra new Secretary General of the IOPD
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2019-09-10

Call for Candidate Cities to host the next IOPD Conference 2020
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2019-07-22

PBP launches a global collaboration project on participatory budgeting
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2019-07-17

Press conference and public presentation of the 19th IOPD conference
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2019-07-16

The website of the 2019 IOPD conference is now available
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2019-07-04

Barcelona on its pursuit on low emission areas.
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2019-07-01

The comments and voting stage of the 13th IOPD Award has finished.
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2019-06-26

Call to join the jury of the 13th IOPD Award
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2019-06-26

Incentives for Organizational Participation: A Recruitment Experiment in Mexico
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2019-06-26

Join and participate in the preparation of the IOPD 2019 Conference Program!
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2019-06-18

Scotland promotes a citizen assembly chosen by lot
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2019-06-14

Comments and voting phase of the candidacies for the IOPD Award begins
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2019-06-04

Participedia update their web on global participatory experiences
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2019-06-04

The City Council of Edinburgh involves citizens for the protection of the environment
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2019-05-21

The secretary general of the IOPD participates in several conferences in Mexico
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2019-05-17

Citizen participation is at the center of the Portuguese municipality debate
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2019-05-09

Belgium promotes a new democratic mechanism
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2019-04-16

The call for the IOPD Award 2019 is now open!
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2019-04-01

19th IOPD Conference Concept Note
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2019-03-06

The IOPD collects experiences of localization of the SDGs and local democracy
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2019-03-01

Berlin set to hold referendum on banning big landlords and nationalising private rented housing
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2019-02-18

Metz has established the first participatory budget eco-citizen of France for 2019
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2019-02-18

The IOPD has participated in the 5th UCLG Retreat and Campus
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2019-01-31

The City Council of Madrid launches a permanent deliberative panel with citizens chosen by lot
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2019-01-16

La Paz already has laws proposed by citizens through the Citizens Legislative Initiative (ILC)
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2018-12-21

Taoyuan wins the XII IOPD Award
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2018-12-21

The Bordeaux City Council approves a participatory budgeting of 2,5 million euros
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2018-12-18

The Valencia City Council submits a new regulation on citizen participation
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2018-12-11

Barcelona hosts the #Cities4Rights international conference
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2018-12-11

The 19th IOPD Conference will be held in Iztapalapa (Mexico) at the end of 2019
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2018-12-10

The IOPD highlights the importance of an active citizenship to defend human rights
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2018-11-30

The 18th IOPD Conference comes to an end after three days of intense debate in Barcelona
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2018-11-07

The IOPD took part in the UCLG World Council 2018
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2018-11-06

Agenda for Local Democracy
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2018-10-18

The general secretariat launches a new consultation among the members of the IOPD
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2018-10-10

Call for the IOPD 2018 General Assembly
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2018-10-08

International meeting HABITAT III+2: Quito cities laboratory of the New Urban Agenda
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2018-09-29

Rome has hosted the Global Forum for Modern Direct Democracy
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2018-09-19

The IOPD conference program is now available!
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2018-09-10

The IOPD participates in Moscow in a conference on participatory budgeting
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2018-09-04

The call for candidacies for the Presidency of the IOPD next 2019 is now open
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2018-07-30

The stage to participate in the elaboration of the IOPD Agenda for the Local Democracy is now open
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2018-07-13

The IOPD participates in the 1st World Forum of Intermediary Cities
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2018-07-11

IV iberian meeting of democracy and participatory budgeting
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2018-07-05

Inscriptions for the 18th IOPD Conference are now open
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2018-06-25

The Scottish Government has announced the latest round of the Community Choices Fund
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2018-06-25

Italian local elections, 2018
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2018-06-22

Participatory Budgeting event in Intermediary Cities World Forum
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2018-06-20

The Mayor of London has launched #CrowdfundLDN - a £1m fund to support projects that benefit local communities.
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2018-06-21

A Coruña will host the IV Iberian Meeting of Democracy and Participatory Budget from the 4th to the 6th July
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2018-06-20

Barcelona organizes the workshop Citizens' Consultations in a Local World: Democracy without Intermediation
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2018-06-19

THE OCPM launches a consultation on access roads to Mount Royal
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2018-06-15

2018 Participatory Budgeting in NYC
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2018-06-12

Panel Innovative democracy and open government at CEMR 2018 Conference
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2018-06-13

Swiss citizens vote again on June 10
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2018-06-11

The IOPD takes part in the printemps des citoyens de Metz
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2018-06-08

"Decide Madrid" receives the United Nation Public Service Award 2018
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2018-06-01

The comments and voting stage of the 12th IOPD Award has finished
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2018-05-31

The Irish abortion referendum: How a Citizens' Assembly helped to break years of political deadlock
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2018-05-24

Preparatory workshop for the 18th IOPD Conference:
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2018-05-24

Stockholm hosts a conference about how to improve democracy
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2018-05-10

Local elections in UK 2018
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2018-05-08

65 candidacies have been submitted to the 12th IOPD Award
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2018-05-03

The Aragon Open Government Laboratory (LAAAB) starts up
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2018-04-19

The city of Grenoble organizes a preparatory workshop for the IOPD Conference 2018 on the 22nd May
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2018-04-12

The web page of the 2018 IOPD Conference is now available
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2018-04-12

European Citizens' Initiative Day calls for genuine citizen participation
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2018-04-04

A citizens' initiative gets more than one million signatures in favor of linguistic diversity in Europe
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2018-03-22

Dutch municipal elections, 2018
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2018-03-22

ALGA forms its first cohort of facilitators in participatory budget
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2018-03-19

The call for the IOPD Award 2018 is now open!
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2018-03-14

Latin America and the Caribbean come together to protect the right of their citizens to participate in environmental decisions
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2018-03-13

Inaugurated the Civic Hall, the participatory democracy laboratory in Paris
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2018-03-09

The IOPD participated in the 2018 French National Participation Conference
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2018-03-05

Belgrade Municipal Election
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2018-03-05

Switzerland has celebrated its first voting day of 2018
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2018-03-05

The IOPD participates this week at the National Encounters of Participation in France
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2018-02-26

Results of the vote of the Rennes Participatory Budget 2018
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2018-02-21

The IOPD has defended the democratic dimension of local governance at the 9th World Urban Forum
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2018-02-15

Sri Lankan local elections, 2018
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2018-02-26

The City Council of Barcelona promotes the participation of people with different cultural origins and backgrounds
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2018-02-15

Mayor Bill de Blasio Launches Participatory Budgeting in All NYC High Schools
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2018-01-29

The IOPD has participated in the 4th UCLG Retreat and Campus
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2018-01-19

The IOPD in the Ninth Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF9)
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2018-01-19

Side Event "Participatory Budgeting in Asian Cities: A Pathway towards Achieving the New Urban Agenda approaches"
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2017-11-30

Turin and Jalisco launch citizen participation platforms using CONSUL, the free software from Madrid
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2017-11-29

Report from the PB Scotland Conference 2017
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2017-11-29

Scotland: Community Choices Budgeting Framework for the operation of the 1% target for Local Authorities
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2017-11-27

Danish local elections, 2017
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2017-11-27

International Forum
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2017-11-24

The IOPD endorse the Manifesto for transformative social innovation
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2017-11-15

Australia's same-sex marriage postal survey: 61.6% yes, 38.4% no
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2017-11-10

United States elections, November 7 2017
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2017-11-06

Sicilian regional election, 2017
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2017-11-02

Córdoba ratified as a municipality that will coordinate the IOPD in Argentina
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2017-10-31

Macedonia holds local polls runoff
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2017-10-27

2017 Kosovo Local Elections
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2017-10-23

Referendum in the regions of Lombardy and the Veneto
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2017-10-19

Meeting between the IOPD Secretary General and the IOPD Africa Coordinator
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2017-10-18

Penang organizes the Asia-Pacific Conference on Localising Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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2017-10-16

Lower Saxony state election, 2017
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2017-10-16

Estonian municipal council election 2017
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2017-10-09

Luxembourg communal elections, 2017
EN FR

2017-10-02

Geneva lowers threshold for popular votes
EN FR

2017-10-02

Popular vote in Switzerland of September 24, 2017
EN FR

2017-10-02

Portuguese local elections, 2017
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2017-09-19

Participatory budget of Paris: nearly 500 projects submitted to the vote of the Parisians
EN FR

2017-09-18

The IOPD has participated in the final Transit Conference
EN ES FR

2017-09-12

Cascais wins the the GIFT Public Participation in Fiscal Policy and Budget Making Award for his Participatory Budgeting
EN

2017-08-01

17th IOPD Conference
EN CA ES FR PT

2017-07-11

The OECD launch an online public consultation for its Recommendation of the Council on Open Government
EN

2017-07-10

The IOPD participated in the Festival of the Participation of L'Aquila 2017
EN ES FR

2017-07-10

The IOPD participated in the XII Metropolis World Congress
EN ES FR

2017-07-10

International Training Session on Participatory Budgeting - Dakar 2017
EN FR

2017-07-10

Signing of Agreement between UCLG-Afrique, Enda Ecopop, IOPD Africa and Assoal/ School of Governance and the Inter-African Alliance of the Participatory Budgeting
EN FR

2017-07-05

Publication of the book "Feminisms for Participation"
EN ES FR

2017-06-24

The City of La Paz won the 11th IOPD Award
EN CA ES FR PT

2017-06-18

The city of Barcelona has been chosen to host the 18th IOPD Conference
EN ES FR

2017-06-12

Italian local elections, 2017
EN

2017-06-06

Cambodian communal elections, 2017
EN

2017-05-31

New cities and organizations adhering to IOPD in May 2017
EN CA ES FR

2017-05-22

Federal voting of May 21 2017 in Switzerland
EN FR

2017-05-22

Referendums in Swiss cantons on 21 May
EN FR

2017-05-17

Nepal held its first local elections in 20 years
EN

2017-05-17

L'Aquila (Italy) will host the second edition of the Festival of participation from 6 to 9 July
EN

2017-05-15

North Rhine-Westphalia state election, 2017
EN ES FR

2017-05-15

West Bank 2017 municipal election
EN

2017-05-08

Results of Chicago's 49th Ward Participatory Budgeting Initiative 2017 Announced
EN

2017-05-08

Schleswig-Holstein state election, 2017
EN

2017-05-08

2017 United Kingdom Local Elections
EN

2017-05-03

City of Vernon launches new engagement website, participatory budget for residents
EN

2017-05-02

New cities and organizations adhering to IOPD in April 2017
EN CA ES FR

2017-04-19

IOPD 11th Award Finalists
EN CA ES FR PT

2017-04-18

Finnish municipal elections, 2017
EN ES FR

2017-03-20

IOPD: mapping Citizen Participation worldwide
EN CA ES FR

2017-03-20

The Barcelona City Council presents its proposal for a Regulation of Citizen Participation
EN CA ES

2017-03-13

World Forum for Democracy 2017: call for lab submissions
EN FR

2017-03-02

More than 212,000 people participate in the first citizen vote in Madrid
EN ES

2017-02-24

The IOPD has participated in the UCLG 2017 Retreat
EN ES FR

2017-02-22

New cities and organizations adhering to IOPD in February 2017
EN CA ES FR

2017-02-27

Andalusian meeting about Democracy and Participatory Budgeting 2017
EN ES

2017-02-06

Six cities in the metropolitan area to use the decicim.barcelona software
EN CA ES

2017-02-02

Candidacies submitted to the 11th IOPD Distinction
EN CA ES FR

2017-01-24

Madrid inhabitants can decide which projects will be financed with the 100 million euros of the public budget 2018
EN ES

2017-01-24

Madrid starts a citizen consultation about pedestrianization of Gran Vía
EN ES

2016-12-30

The IODP has attended the Habitat 3 Conference
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2016-12-29

The IODP has attended the Bogota Summit of Local Leaders
EN CA ES FR PT

2016-11-04

Statement on the detention of the mayors of Diyarbakir
EN CA ES FR

2016-10-20

Participatory planning, social inclusion and rights to cities:
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2016-10-17

IOPD activities in Habitat 3
EN ES FR

2016-10-11

Learning Forum Local finance, Inclusive governance and participatory budgeting
EN ES

2016-09-12

International PB Conference
EN

2016-09-12

Democracy Day
EN ES FR

2016-09-12

Democracy Beyond Elections: Empowering Citizens, Strengthening Participation
EN

2016-09-07

Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy
EN

2016-09-07

2016 IAP2 North American Conference
EN FR

2016-09-05

Oslo Urban Arena
EN

2016-09-05

Beyond the Vote: Democratic Innovation in Australia. Workshop
EN

2016-07-25

International Day of Democracy conference to focus on democratic politics
EN

2016-07-21

Bachir Kanouté participates in the 6th World Human Rights Cities Forum 2016 in Gwangju, Republic of Korea
EN FR

2016-07-11

CeDEM Asia 2016
EN

2016-07-07

The 4th International Open Data Conference
EN ES

2016-07-07

6th UCLG ASPAC Congress
EN

2016-07-07

Festival della Partecipazione: Participation Festival
EN

2016-07-04

7th National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation
EN

2016-06-17

The Presidency and the Secretary General of the IOPD meet to coordinate the work period 2016-2017
EN ES FR

2016-06-16

Release of the report on the consultation on reducing Montrealers' dependence on fossil energies
EN FR

2016-05-26

The City of Montreal elected as the new president of the IOPD for the period 2016 -2017
EN ES FR

2016-05-13

PB Workshop
EN

2016-05-11

Habit III Conference
EN

2016-05-11

5th UCLG Congress: WORLD SUMMIT OF LOCAL AND REGIONAL LEADERS
EN ES FR

2016-05-11

World Forum for Democracy
EN FR

2016-05-11

DEMOCRATIC CITIES Commons technology and the right to a democratic city
EN ES

2016-05-11

Open Government Partnership Global Summit
EN FR

2016-05-09

10th Award "Best Practice in Citizen's Participation" outcomes
EN ES FR

2016-04-01

New members attached to the IOPD in March 2016
EN

2016-03-31

Open Standards in Local Government workshop
EN

2016-03-29

Network democracy and new forms of citizen participation
EN

2016-03-29

Participatory Budgeting Conference
EN

2016-03-29

Frontiers of Democracy Conference 2016
EN

2016-03-17

Dual EGOV 2016 and ePart 2016 conference
EN

2016-03-17

Leapfrog Summer School
EN

2016-03-14

The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference 2016 (TICTeC2016)
EN

2016-03-10

Technical mission to prepare the 16th IOPD Conference
EN ES

2016-02-16

Launch of the book 'Designing public policy for co-production: Theory, practice and change'
EN

2016-02-08

3rd International Conference on Democratic Governance in the Developing World
EN

2016-01-18

TransparencyCamp Europe
EN

2016-01-18

CEMR Congress 2016
EN FR

2016-01-07

New members attached to the IOPD during 2015
EN

2016-01-04

Letter of welcome from the new General Secretary
EN CA ES FR PT

2015-12-07

A session on Participatory Budgeting was held at Africities Summit
EN FR

2015-11-20

Seattle Launches Citywide Youth PB
EN

2015-11-18

4th International Conference on Participatory Budgeting In North America
EN

2015-11-18

16th IOPD Conference
EN CA ES FR PT

2015-11-18

D-CENT Showcase and Opportunities for UK Digital Democracy
EN

2015-11-17

Lemann Dialogues
EN

2015-11-04

ICEDEG 2016 - 3rd International Conference on eDemocracy & eGovernment
EN

2015-11-04

Mozilla Festival
EN

2015-11-02

6th International Conference on e-Democracy
EN

2015-10-16

Dialogue, Deliberation and Public Engagement Master Class
EN

2015-10-13

The International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (IOPD) takes a Leading Role in International Research Partnership on Participation and Democracy"
EN

2015-09-29

Participatory Budgeting processes start in 6 US cities
EN

2015-09-23

CeDEM 2016: International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 2016
EN

2015-09-16

The Mayor of Barcelona Ada Colau visit the UCLG and IOPD offices
EN CA ES

2015-09-07

Smart City Expo World Congress
EN

2015-09-07

MONTRÉAL THEMATIC MEETING ON METROPOLITAN AREAS
EN ES FR

2015-09-04

Official presentation of the 16th International Observatory of Participatory Democracy Conference
EN PT

2015-09-03

2015 IAP2 North American Conference
EN

2015-09-01

New IODP members adhered in August
EN ES FR

2015-08-31

UCLG World Council
EN ES FR

2015-08-31

United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015
EN

2015-08-31

World Forum for Democracy
EN FR

2015-08-31

Africities Summit
EN FR

2015-08-21

UK Participatory National Conference
EN

2015-07-15

ORU FOGAR General Assembly
EN ES FR

2015-06-12

Frontiers of Democracy 2015
EN

2015-05-25

15th European Conference on eGovernment – ECEG 2015
EN

2015-05-25

Beyond 2020
EN

2015-05-07

International Forum on Innovation and Metropolitan Governance
EN ES

2015-04-27

Open Government Partnership Global Summit
EN

2015-04-15

Cartagena Data Festival
EN ES FR

2015-04-10

5th World Human Rights Cities Forum
EN

2015-03-30

The municipality of Quart de Poblet wins the 9th IOPD Award
EN CA ES FR

2015-07-06

The city of Matola (Mozambique), elected as new presidency of the IOPD, and home of the 16th International Conference.
EN ES

2015-03-10

IOPD Internal Meeting
EN ES

2015-03-05

Democracy Conference 2015
EN

2015-03-02

Annual assessment of the IOPD
EN CA ES FR PT

2015-02-23

International Conference on Public Policy: T12P06 - Public policy and citizen involvement
EN

2015-02-23

Swiss Summer School Democracy Studies
EN

2015-02-23

Democracy: A Citizen perspective
EN

2015-02-18

Open the period to choose the chair of the IOPD in 2016
EN CA ES FR

2015-02-16

Democratic Sector Day (DSD)
EN

2015-02-09

The Democratic Contribution of Participatory Budgeting by Prof Yves Cabannes
EN

2015-02-06

II European Congress on Proximity, Participation and Citizenship
EN ES

2015-02-04

U.S. Public Participation Playbook Open Beta
EN

2015-02-04

Final FoP-conference in Stockholm 29 June – 1 July
EN

2015-02-04

Preparatory Committee 2: 14-16 April 2015
EN

2015-02-04

II Latin American and Caribbean Forum on Adequate Housing Monterrey, México
EN ES

2015-02-04

Sabadell Smart Congress
EN CA ES

2015-02-02

3rd INTERNATIONAL OPEN DATA CONFERENCE 2015
EN FR

2015-01-29

15th Conference of the International Observatory on Participatory Democracy
EN ES

2015-01-23

World Social Forum Tunisia 2015
EN ES FR

2015-01-23

5th Annual Urban Innovation Symposium: AuthentiCity
EN

2015-01-19

Open Government Symposium
EN

2015-01-16

Citizen University Annual National Conference
EN

2015-01-16

Democracy and Participation in Latin America
EN

2015-01-16

Futurefest
EN

2015-01-16

Crowdsourcing and Legislation Conference
EN

2015-01-16

Digital Democracy in the EU
EN

2015-01-16

UKGovCamp
EN

2015-01-16

The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference 2015 (TICTeC2015)
EN

2015-01-14

Participatory Budgeting Info Session in Seattle
EN

2014-12-22

Nominations submitted to the 9th IOPD Distinction
EN ES

2014-12-15

European conference on citizenship and twinning
EN FR

2015-01-23

Connected Smart Cities
EN PT

2014-11-21

Contact democracy for the hyper-connected age
EN

2014-11-18

Conference REsolutions Africa / Marrakesh 2014
EN FR

2014-11-12

The City Innovation Summit
EN CA ES

2014-10-28

1st EU Liquid Democracy Meetup
EN

2014-10-28

Call of jury for the 9th Distinction for Best Practice in Citizen Participation
EN CA ES FR PT

2014-10-27

Making Democracy Work…Better? The Internet as a Tool for Citizen Empowerment
EN

2014-10-22

PB Cambridge Info Session
EN

2014-10-20

Formal/Informal Institutions for Citizen Engagement for implementing the Post 2015 Development Agend
EN

2014-10-17

Developing the space for a public conversation about democratic reform
EN

2014-10-17

DLNI SALON – CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT – MEETING NEEDS AND DELIVERING TANGIBLE BENEFITS
EN

2015-01-29

15th IOPD Conference: Madrid 24 - 26 March, 2015
EN CA ES FR

2014-10-13

The Citizen and the Government: How They Connect
EN

2014-10-10

International Meeting on the Right to the City
EN ES PT

2014-10-09

Transformative Possibilities in the Global South
EN

2014-10-09

Parisians have their say on city's first €20m 'participatory budget'
EN

2014-10-07

SMART CITY EXPO WORLD CONGRESS
EN

2014-10-02

The IOPD Secretary- General meets with the Comptroller General of Mexico City
EN CA ES

2014-09-29

Buntwani conference on Citizen Engagement
EN

2014-09-25

25 Years of Participatory Budgeting: Analyzing the Resilience of a Traveling Innovation
EN

2014-09-22

Launch of 2014 State of Participatory Democracy Report
EN

2014-09-22

Launch of 2014 State of Participatory Democracy Report
EN

2014-09-15

CeDEM15 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government
EN

2014-09-12

Open Government #WikiHack
EN

2014-09-12

WINTER SCHOOL ON FEDERALISM AND GOVERNANCE
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2014-09-10

IOPD attends Participedia meeting
EN CA ES FR

2014-09-02

Open data, sustainable development goals and the data revolution
EN

2014-09-01

6th National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation
EN

2014-08-29

Open Policymaking Unconference BXL 2014
EN

2014-08-04

The Open Government Tour - Winnipeg
EN

2014-08-04

Open Government Tour 2014
EN

2014-08-01

Conference "Citizen in my city, citizen in Europe Engagement & Participation"
EN FR

2014-07-31

Civic Tech 4 Pack - Global Poplus, Middle America Open Gov, Hacking with Service Design, 20 Years
EN

2014-07-30

5th UCLG ASPAC CONGRESS - TAIPEI 2014
EN

2014-07-28

Government libraries as knowledge platforms for citizen engagement
EN

2014-07-24

XI Metropolis World Congress
EN ES FR

2014-07-21

CeDEM-Asia-2014
EN

2014-06-30

Technology and democratic participation: friend or foe?
EN

2014-06-25

WORLD FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY 2014
EN FR

2014-06-20

Participate! Grass-roots democracy & development in Africa
EN

2014-06-17

EDUCATION AND THE MAKING OF PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY
EN

2014-06-17

IOPD and Mercociudades have signed a collaboration agreement
EN CA ES

2014-06-05

The city of Chengdu, China, has won the 8th IOPD Distinction "Best Practice in Citizen Participation"
EN ES

2014-05-30

Ceremony 8th IOPD Distinction
EN ES

2014-05-31

Program 14th IOPD Conference
EN PT

2014-05-29

INM Symposium - Developing Expertise in the Design of Participatory Tools: Professionalization and Diversification of the Public Participation Field
EN FR

2014-05-19

Assessing the Participatory Turn and 'New Democracy' - Superdemocracy conference
EN

2014-05-05

Big Data Week 3rd Edition
EN

2014-04-30

TransparencyCamp 2014
EN

2014-04-30

re:publica 2014
EN

2014-04-23

Smarter Cities 2014
EN

2014-04-23

5th Annual Cities Summit Tel Aviv
EN

2014-04-23

Participatory Budgeting Project Wins 1st Brown Democracy Medal from Penn State
EN

2014-04-16

14th IOPD Conference
EN CA ES FR PT

2014-04-15

Book talk with the author of: Making Democracy Fun, Josh Lerner
EN

2014-03-31

The Paris Conference: from Open Data to Open Gov
EN FR

2014-03-28

The period for the choice of the Presidency of the IOPD during 2015 is open
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2014-03-31

The IOPD present at the Kyoto Smart City Expo
EN CA ES

2014-03-26

CBM Rapport presentation in Phillipines
EN

2014-03-25

Kyoto SMART CITY EXPO
EN

2014-03-25

CeDEM14 International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 2014
EN

2014-03-25

CES Events programme at Worl Urban Forum
EN

2014-03-28

Celebrate PBP
EN

2014-02-18

Digitial Citizens: How Feedback Loops can improve governance on everything from potholes to voting
EN

2014-01-31

The Seventh Session of The World Urban Forum
EN ES

2014-01-29

IAP2 North American Conference
EN

2014-01-29

Involve at 10: visions of democracy
EN

2014-01-29

3rd International Conference on Participatory Budgeting
EN

2014-01-21

Reinventing Europe through local initiatives
EN FR

2014-01-17

Open Government - public meeting, Kitchener-Waterloo
EN

2014-01-16

P2Pvalue: Collaborative Production Online
EN CA ES

2014-01-15

"Open City", A New Cycle of Lectures in the Barcelona Debate
EN CA ES

2014-01-10

DATA DAYS 2014
EN

2014-01-10

Participatory and Deliberative Democracy conference
EN

2014-01-09

Participatory Budgeting Network, London, Jan 27th 2014
EN

2014-01-09

Presentation of ODIS report 2014
EN FR

2014-01-09

Open Culture: Participatory Practices in Art & Science 16-25 May 2014, Toronto
EN

2014-01-08

INTERNATIONAL OPEN DATA HACKATHON
EN FR PT

2013-12-19

Introducing Participedia
EN

2013-11-27

3th International Congress of Educating Cities in 2014
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2013-11-15

New Voices and Civic Technology: A Micro-Unconference
EN

2013-11-14

Comittee on Participatory budgeting in the City of VIC
EN CA ES

2013-11-15

International Conference on citizen participation in the budgeting and management of local and regional affairs in Africa
EN FR

2013-11-05

WORLD FORUM FOR DEMOCRACY 2013
EN FR

2013-11-04

SMART CITY EXPO: WORLD CONGRESS
EN ES

2013-10-30

International conference on deepening democracy through participatory local government
EN

2013-10-29

Open Government Partnership Annual Summit in London
EN

2013-10-25

Webpage about German PB now in English!
EN

2013-10-21

The Flexible City Symposium 24/25 October 2013
EN

2013-09-12

How Participatory Budgeting became normal practice on the NYC Council
EN

2013-09-12

San Francisco To Test Online Participatory Budgeting
EN

2013-08-21

World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders and 4th UCLG Congress "Imagining Society, Building Democracy"
EN ES FR

2013-08-21

Workshops and debates on the latest developments in Participatory Budgeting(PB) in the UK
EN

2013-05-07

Participatory Budgeting in NYC: Thinking Critically and Looking Forward
EN

2013-04-23

Vallejo (California) became the first U.S. municipality to fully adopt participatory budgeting.
EN

2013-02-11

Building a Democratic City. 2nd Conference on Participatory Budgeting in US and Canada
EN

2012-12-14

Conference for E-democracy and Open Government - Call for papers
EN

2012-12-13

Communities vote for culture - participatory budgeting in Great Britain
EN

2012-11-26

The Global Movement for Budget Transparency, Accountability, and Transparency (BTAP) has recently launched its website
EN

2012-11-12

Fiji: Participatory democracy in action – a constitution of the people
EN

2012-11-09

The United Nations Democracy Fund invites civil society organizations to apply for funding for projects to advance and support democracy.
EN

2012-10-31

Call for papers- 1st World Summit of Local Governments for the Right to the City
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2012-07-30

Sixth edition of the Africities Summit "Building Africa starting from its territories"
EN FR PT

2012-07-30

World Urban Forum 6
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