Die Veröffentlichung von UN-HABITAT ^[1], dem United Nations Human Settlements Programme, beschäftigt sich mit folgenden 72 Fragen zum Thema Bürgerhaushalt:

Ⅰ. General Questions
1. What is Participatory Budgeting (PB)?
2. When did Participatory Budgeting start?
3. How have the PB experiences been expanded?
4. How many cities have PB experience at this time?
5. Where has Participatory Budgeting taken place?
6. In what types of cities are Participatory Budgets implemented?
7. Is PB only implemented at the municipal level?
8. Are there regional differences in the form of implementation of the
Participatory Budget?
9. What are the benefits of the PB for the city and its citizens
10. What are the benefits of the PBfor local public administration?
11. Who benefits from the Participatory Budget?
12. What are the dimensions of the Participatory Budget?
13. Where can one find more information about the PB?

Ⅱ. Initiation and implementation of a Participatory Budget
14. Can any municipality implement a Participatory Budget?
15. What are the basic conditions necessary to implement a
Participatory Budget in a municipality?
16. In what conditions is it not advisable to undertake a PB?
17. What are the basic principles of the Participatory Budget?
18. How is a Participatory Budget put into practice?
19. What are the principal stages of a Participatory Budget?

Ⅲ. Financial Dimension
20. What percentage of the total municipal budget is submitted
for consideration in the Participatory Budget?
21. What proportion of the municipal investment budget is
placed under discussion?
22. Is there an optimal percentage of the municipal budget
that should be submitted for public discussion?
23. What is the origin of the resources placed under debate?
24. What is the impact of the Participatory Budget on fiscal
collection and municipal revenue?
25. Do all demands of the citizens result in public works and services?
26. How are the resources distributed within a city?
By sector? By region?
27. How are the budgeting criteria defined?
28. Where are PB decided, and who has the decision-making power?
29. Is the PB limited to planning short-term expenditures?
30. Is there more and better participation when the municipal resources
to be assigned are greater? In this sense, is having few resources
subject to discussion an obstacle or a conditioning factor?
31. Does the Participatory Budgeting process only discuss revenue
from municipality’s own sources?
32. Are there processes to ensure accountability in the PB?
33. How much does the process cost the municipality and how are
these costs covered?

Ⅳ. Participatory Dimension
Citizen Participation
34. Who participates in the Participatory Budget?
35. How many people participate in Participatory Budgets?
36. If participation is limited, doesn’t that take legitimacy away
from the process?
37. Where are decisions made during the process?
38. If the Participatory Budget Council – PBC – is the central player,
who makes up the PBC?
39. Can the delegates and councillors of the PB be re-elected?
Participatory Budget delegates be avoided?
40. How can the bureaucratisation or even corruption of the
Participatory Budget delegates be avoided?
41. What level of participation do women have?
42. Are there gender-sensitive Participatory Budgets?
43. How do the excluded and marginalised participate in the PB? Isn’t
there a risk of greater social exclusion for example in the case of
immigrants, undocumented workers or the homeless?
44. How can the participation of the poor, the excluded, and the
unorganized be facilitated?
45. Who oversees and monitors the execution of the budget and
the approved projects?
46. What is the role of NGOs, universities and professionals in
the Participatory Budget?
47. Is there volunteerism in the Participatory Budget?
What is its role?

Governmental Participation
48. What is the role of the local government throughout the process? 66
49. What is the underlying logic regarding the place of Participatory
Budgets in local governments?
50. Which is the municipal area or department responsible for
the process?
51. Does the Participatory Budget depend on only one unit of the
municipal administration?
52. What is the role of the legislative branch in the PB?
53. How does the municipality invite the population to participate in
the Participatory Budget?
54. What steps can the municipality take to encourage and mobilise
the community to participate in the PB process?
55. How does the Participatory Budget relate to other instruments
and mechanisms of citizen participation?
56. What are the main difficulties that municipal administrations face
in implementing a Participatory Budget?

Participation of the Private Sector
57. How can the private sector be integrated into the PB?
58. How can the informal or solidarity-based economy sectors
be integrated?

Ⅴ. Normative and Legal Dimension
59. How and when should the PB process be formalised and legalised?
60. What aspects of the PB should be inscribed in a legal framework?
61. Is it necessary for the Participatory Budget to be related to a
Development Plan (long-term, strategic or physical)?
62. How can the PB be tied to urban planning instruments?
63. Who makes the link between the long-term plans and the PB?
64. Are there evaluation mechanisms or systems for the PB?

Ⅵ. Territorial Dimension
65. How is the PB linked to municipal decentralisation?
66. Is there an optimal number of regions and/or sub-regions which
guarantees the proper functioning of the Participatory Budget?
67. Are there Participatory Budgets in rural areas?
68. Is the PB methodology similar in rural and urban areas?

Ⅶ. Final Questions
69. Is the Participatory Budget a proposal that emerges from certain
political parties? Do these parties have any particular leanings?
70. Is there a risk of considering the PB as a panacea? As the cure
for all ills?
71. Does the Participatory Budget reduce corruption?
72. How can the sustainability of the PB process be guaranteed?

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