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Participatory budgeting initiatives lead to greater transparency: Example of two Lithuanian schools

Ieva Duncikaite
12.09.2019

This was one of the conclusions that we, Transparency International Lithuania *, made after measuring the impact of Participatory Budgeting (PB) initiatives in two Vilnius district schools. To our knowledge, it is one of the first attempts to measure whether participatory budgeting can help boost transparency, and more specifically, whether it increases students’ understanding of school finances and the ways they can engage in decision-making at school level.

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