In the Argentine Republic, the Participatory Budget began to be implemented after the economic, political and social crisis of the years 2001 and 2002. The city of Rosario "Rosario (Argentina)"), province of Santa Fe, was the first municipality to adopt it, sanctioning the respective ordinance in 2002 and the first participatory budget corresponded to the year 2003.[3]​.

Between 2003 and 2007, the number of municipalities that adopted this citizen participation mechanism expanded and that last year a public policy began to be implemented at the national level aimed at consolidating it throughout the national territory. The National Participatory Budget Program (PNPP) aimed to strengthen, through technical assistance, training and construction of exchange spaces, the application of the Participatory Budget in the different municipalities of the country. One of the strategies to carry out this policy were the seven participatory budget meetings:

National Participatory Budget Meetings:.

• - I National Meeting of Participatory Budget La Plata "More Participation, Better Democracy" La Plata, from December 12 to 14, 2008. Special guests: Olivio Dutra, former Prefect of Porto Alegre and former governor of Río Grande Do Sul, Brazil and Mariano Arana, former Mayor of Montevideo, Uruguay.

• - II National Meeting on Participatory Budgeting. "Popular Participation. An Argentina for All", city of Córdoba, Argentina, from December 4 to 6, 2009. participants: Daniel Giacomino, Mayor of the city of Córdoba; Kelly Olmos, Secretary of Municipal Affairs, Ministry of the Interior; Oscar González, Secretary of Parliamentary Relations, Head of the Cabinet of Ministers. Special guests: Raúl Pont, former mayor of Porto Alegre and Representative of the State of Río Grande Do Sul, Brazil; Jaime Vásconez, Executive Director of the International Center for Urban Management, Quito. Ecuador.

• III National Participatory Budget Meeting Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, December 3 and 4, 2010. Special guests: Karolin Reyes, Dominican Federation of Municipalities. Gabriela Gilles Ferreira, Brazilian Participatory Budget Network.

• IV National Meeting on Participatory Budget City of Corrientes https://es.scribd.com/document/76747361/Boletin-dedicado-al-IV-Encuentro-Nacional-de-Presupuesto-Participativo.

• V National Meeting of Participatory Budget Partido de la Costa. "Popular Protagonism + Social Inclusion + Participatory Democracy." Special guests: Cristina Bloj. National University of Rosario. Alejandro López Accotto, National University of General Sarmiento.

• VI Villa María National Participatory Budget Meeting.

• VII National Meeting of Participatory Budget Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos. "Redistribute Wealth, Expand Participation, Consolidate Democracy." From November 13 to 14, 2014. Special guest: Olivio Dutra, former Prefect of Porto Alegre and Former Governor of Río Grande Do Sul, Brazil. Ricardo Muñoz Portugal. Regional Deputy Manager of Planning and Participatory Budgeting. Lima, Peru.

Regional Participatory Budget Meetings:.

• - I Morón Regional Participatory Budget Meeting.

• - II Regional Meeting on Participatory Budget Santo Tomé.

National Youth Participatory Budget Meeting:.

• - I National Meeting of Participatory Budget Zárate.

International Meetings on Participatory Budgeting and Citizen Participation:.

The 24th Annual Conference of the International Observatory of Participatory Democracy (OIDP) was a meeting that took place in the city of Córdoba, within the framework of the pro tempore presidency of the mayor, Dr. Daniel Passerini, over the OIDP. It took place between May 21 and 23, 2025. This event brought together representatives of local governments, experts, academics, social organizations and citizens interested in debating and sharing experiences on participatory democracy and local governance policies. [4]​.

The 24th edition, titled "Connect, integrate and humanize: cities facing the challenge of creating community" had three main axes: Citizen participation in community construction; Administrative, operational and political decentralization of cities and Citizenship and government in the digital age. During the event, panels, round tables, practical workshops and spaces for exchanging good practices were held.[5]​.

Local authorities, public policy specialists, academics and representatives of civil society participated. The event had more than 200 foreign guests from more than 20 countries. Around 1,000 participants were also present, more than 500 from the interior of the province of Córdoba and another 500 from the rest of the country.

The main objectives of the conference focused on promoting debate on new citizen participation strategies, sharing innovative experiences implemented in different cities, promoting collaboration networks between local governments, universities and social organizations and contributing to the construction of a global agenda for participatory democracy.

Among the municipalities that implement this instrument are the city of San Lorenzo (province of Santa Fe), San Fernando (province of Buenos Aires), the Municipality of Morón (province of Buenos Aires), Córdoba Capital, San Miguel (province of Buenos Aires), San Carlos de Bariloche (province of Río Negro), Reconquista "Reconquista (Santa Fe)") (province of Santa Fe) and La Plata (Province of Buenos Aires). Aires) https://presupuestoparticipativo.laplata.gob.ar[6]​ also adopted the use of this direct participation tool. This led to the creation of the Argentine Network of Participatory Budgets that brings together the municipalities that use it.

Between the years 2016 and 2022, the Participatory Budget Program was developed in the city of Victoria "Victoria (Entre Rios)") province of Entre Ríos, having its best performance during the years 2018 to 2022, a period in which it was coordinated by the Municipal Budget Office https://presupuestoparticipativovictoria.blogspot.com/.

With 56 projects carried out mostly by municipal employees in the 7 zones into which the city was divided, the program became a member of The Participatory Group (Madrid City Council) and the International Observatory of Participatory Democracy, in addition to being recognized for continuing to work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Currently, the Director of Participatory Budgeting of the city of Córdoba, Neldo Fraye, has been appointed as president of the Argentine Participatory Budget Network.

The Autonomous City of Buenos Aires had its experience with the head of Government Aníbal Ibarra, but later in the administration of Mauricio Macri he was eliminated.

Participatory budgeting is a tool that is also used in several Argentine public universities, one of them is the National University of General Sarmiento (UNGS). In 2017, the fifth edition of the participatory budget was held at the UNGS,[7]​ which proposes to debate the destination of a part of the University's non-recurring funds through participation and collective construction among all members of the university community (students, teaching researchers, non-teaching workers and graduates). The objective is to discuss the problems and needs of the institution, present proposals, defend them, and decide with a vote which projects will receive financing. In 2017, this participatory tool was implemented for the first time at the UNGS Secondary School.[8]​.

On December 10, 2015, the Argentine Association of Participatory Democracy (DP) was established with the objective, among others, of "promoting the implementation of public policies that encourage citizen participation in government decisions."

In various municipalities in Spain, participatory budgeting experiences have been put into practice at the local level:

• - In the Basque Country.

The first case corresponds to a town called Idiazábal "Idiazábal (Guipúzcoa)") in which the construction of a soccer field was debated. The field on which they played in the town belonged to a private company that could claim it at any time and they decided to look for a new place to build one owned by the neighbors. The city council's proposals were located next to a highway and were not to the liking of the residents, the NIP decided to locate it in another area, which when carrying out a study it was found that it was not viable, so they opted for the second proposal. The football field at the time the article was written -1996- had not been built due to lack of budget but it was possible that the chosen place was the location chosen by most of the local residents.

The second case took place in Astigarraga, located on the outskirts of San Sebastián. The government wanted to build a new fronton and sports facilities, but again the location was unclear. Finally, the place chosen, after different discussions and with more participation than the previous process, was a place that the municipal authorities had not thought of. In this case the project could be carried out.

The latest example is the highway that connects the Basque coast with Vitoria, in 1993. There were different routes to build it but because it ran through areas of private land, they did not decide which route to follow. The construction affected 21 municipalities and the NIPs lasted 3 months; In this case, environmental groups, political organizations or chambers of commerce participated, as well as the affected neighbors. Finally, the route chosen was the one that had the least opposition and therefore, the one that the NIPs had decided.

• - In Andalusia: Seville, Málaga and Córdoba "Córdoba (Spain)").

• - In the Community of Madrid: Madrid[9]​.

• - In Catalonia: Barcelona, ​​Santa Cristina de Aro, Figaró-Montmany, Rubí "Rubí (Barcelona)"), Castellar del Vallés, Sabadell, San Baudilio de Llobregat, Valls and Villafranca del Panadés.

• - In the Balearic Islands: Colonia de San Pedro, in the municipality of Artá.

• - In Galicia: The Provincial Council of Lugo is the first provincial administration in Spain to prepare its budgets in a participatory way.

• - In the Region of Murcia: Cartagena "Cartagena (Spain)").

• - In the Valencian Community: Valencia.

In Peru, there were pioneering experiences since the 1980s, when municipal democracy was resumed in the democratic Government of Fernando Belaúnde Terry. In 1984, the new municipality of Villa El Salvador, a district of the metropolitan area of Lima, its first mayor, Michel Azcueta, continued, from the local government, the participatory experience of the neighborhood organization, the Self-Managed Urban Community of Villa El Salvador, CUAVES, incorporating into municipal management both the consultation of citizens and the decision that is made in the open town halls, including decisions on the municipal budget, which is collected by the candidates for mayor of Brazil from the Workers' Party, which, once in power, especially in the City of Porto Alegre, was transformed into the participatory bone or participatory budget. Since 2003, the development of the annual Participatory Budget is mandatory for District, Provincial and Regional Governments (about 1900 jurisdictions at the district level) since it is governed by an expressly promulgated Participatory Budget Law (Law No. 28056). Some variants of Participatory in the Peruvian case are that participation is not on an individual basis but by representations of social organizations of civil society, there is a methodology defined by the Ministry of Economy and Finance where the way of prioritizing projects combines popular consultation with technical weighting and recently the Participatory Budget based on results has been implemented, which seeks to prioritize projects or activities that achieve results and impacts in terms of solving the most urgent problems of the populations of Peru, managing to link said budgetary system with the SNIP public investment system.[10]​.

Other cities in Latin America and, later, in Europe, have adopted participatory budgeting as a form of citizen participation and municipal management, adapting the Porto Alegre model to their own context and democratic tradition. There is currently a great wealth and diversity of models and experiences, with different objectives and procedures.

Among the Latin American experiences, there are Belém do Pará PA, Cosmópolis SP, São Bernardo do Campo SP, Diadema SP, Santo André SP, Jaboticaba SP, Santos SP, Piracicaba, São José dos Campos SP, Santa Bárbara d'Oeste SP, Belo Horizonte MG, Ipatinga MG, Betim MG, Timotéo MG, João Monlevade MG, Florianópolis SC, Blumenau SC, Joinville SC, Palmeira SC, Gravatal SC, Porto Alegre RS, Londria PR, Vitória ES, Vila Velha ES, Rio Branco AC, Brasiilia DF, Recife PE, León MEX.

In Ecuador, the experience of the municipality of Cotacachi during the mayoralty of Auki Tituaña (1996-2009) is recorded.

In Europe, it is worth mentioning the experiences of Bologna (Italy), Seville, Malaga, Valencia and Barcelona (Spain); in North America: Ontario (Canada), Portland, Auburn, the State of Minnesota, New York City (USA); and in Asia, that of Yokohama (Japan).

• - Joan Font; Participatory Intervention Nuclei: analysis of three experiences; GAPP nº 5-6 January-August 1996].

• - Limits and potential of the participatory budget -Valdemir Pires.

• - Participatory budgets in Porto Alegre.

• - Participatory budgets in the Lugo Provincial Council.

• - Participatory budgets of the Valencia City Council.

• - Participatory budgets of Barcelona City Council.

• - Participatory budgets of the New York City Council.

• - Victoria Entre Rios Participatory Budget.

• - Effects of the pandemic and local responses on the implementation of Participatory Budgets in Argentina.

• - The participatory budget in a pandemic: survey of Argentine municipalities.

• - Digital turn? Challenges of Argentine participatory budgets in the face of the covid-19 pandemic.

• - PARTICIPATORY BUDGET IN PANDEMIC.

In the Argentine Republic, the Participatory Budget began to be implemented after the economic, political and social crisis of the years 2001 and 2002. The city of Rosario "Rosario (Argentina)"), province of Santa Fe, was the first municipality to adopt it, sanctioning the respective ordinance in 2002 and the first participatory budget corresponded to the year 2003.[3]​.

Between 2003 and 2007, the number of municipalities that adopted this citizen participation mechanism expanded and that last year a public policy began to be implemented at the national level aimed at consolidating it throughout the national territory. The National Participatory Budget Program (PNPP) aimed to strengthen, through technical assistance, training and construction of exchange spaces, the application of the Participatory Budget in the different municipalities of the country. One of the strategies to carry out this policy were the seven participatory budget meetings:

National Participatory Budget Meetings:.

• - I National Meeting of Participatory Budget La Plata "More Participation, Better Democracy" La Plata, from December 12 to 14, 2008. Special guests: Olivio Dutra, former Prefect of Porto Alegre and former governor of Río Grande Do Sul, Brazil and Mariano Arana, former Mayor of Montevideo, Uruguay.

• - II National Meeting on Participatory Budgeting. "Popular Participation. An Argentina for All", city of Córdoba, Argentina, from December 4 to 6, 2009. participants: Daniel Giacomino, Mayor of the city of Córdoba; Kelly Olmos, Secretary of Municipal Affairs, Ministry of the Interior; Oscar González, Secretary of Parliamentary Relations, Head of the Cabinet of Ministers. Special guests: Raúl Pont, former mayor of Porto Alegre and Representative of the State of Río Grande Do Sul, Brazil; Jaime Vásconez, Executive Director of the International Center for Urban Management, Quito. Ecuador.

• III National Participatory Budget Meeting Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, December 3 and 4, 2010. Special guests: Karolin Reyes, Dominican Federation of Municipalities. Gabriela Gilles Ferreira, Brazilian Participatory Budget Network.

• IV National Meeting on Participatory Budget City of Corrientes https://es.scribd.com/document/76747361/Boletin-dedicado-al-IV-Encuentro-Nacional-de-Presupuesto-Participativo.

• V National Meeting of Participatory Budget Partido de la Costa. "Popular Protagonism + Social Inclusion + Participatory Democracy." Special guests: Cristina Bloj. National University of Rosario. Alejandro López Accotto, National University of General Sarmiento.

• VI Villa María National Participatory Budget Meeting.

• VII National Meeting of Participatory Budget Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos. "Redistribute Wealth, Expand Participation, Consolidate Democracy." From November 13 to 14, 2014. Special guest: Olivio Dutra, former Prefect of Porto Alegre and Former Governor of Río Grande Do Sul, Brazil. Ricardo Muñoz Portugal. Regional Deputy Manager of Planning and Participatory Budgeting. Lima, Peru.

Regional Participatory Budget Meetings:.

• - I Morón Regional Participatory Budget Meeting.

• - II Regional Meeting on Participatory Budget Santo Tomé.

National Youth Participatory Budget Meeting:.

• - I National Meeting of Participatory Budget Zárate.

International Meetings on Participatory Budgeting and Citizen Participation:.

The 24th Annual Conference of the International Observatory of Participatory Democracy (OIDP) was a meeting that took place in the city of Córdoba, within the framework of the pro tempore presidency of the mayor, Dr. Daniel Passerini, over the OIDP. It took place between May 21 and 23, 2025. This event brought together representatives of local governments, experts, academics, social organizations and citizens interested in debating and sharing experiences on participatory democracy and local governance policies. [4]​.

The 24th edition, titled "Connect, integrate and humanize: cities facing the challenge of creating community" had three main axes: Citizen participation in community construction; Administrative, operational and political decentralization of cities and Citizenship and government in the digital age. During the event, panels, round tables, practical workshops and spaces for exchanging good practices were held.[5]​.

Local authorities, public policy specialists, academics and representatives of civil society participated. The event had more than 200 foreign guests from more than 20 countries. Around 1,000 participants were also present, more than 500 from the interior of the province of Córdoba and another 500 from the rest of the country.

The main objectives of the conference focused on promoting debate on new citizen participation strategies, sharing innovative experiences implemented in different cities, promoting collaboration networks between local governments, universities and social organizations and contributing to the construction of a global agenda for participatory democracy.

Among the municipalities that implement this instrument are the city of San Lorenzo (province of Santa Fe), San Fernando (province of Buenos Aires), the Municipality of Morón (province of Buenos Aires), Córdoba Capital, San Miguel (province of Buenos Aires), San Carlos de Bariloche (province of Río Negro), Reconquista "Reconquista (Santa Fe)") (province of Santa Fe) and La Plata (Province of Buenos Aires). Aires) https://presupuestoparticipativo.laplata.gob.ar[6]​ also adopted the use of this direct participation tool. This led to the creation of the Argentine Network of Participatory Budgets that brings together the municipalities that use it.

Between the years 2016 and 2022, the Participatory Budget Program was developed in the city of Victoria "Victoria (Entre Rios)") province of Entre Ríos, having its best performance during the years 2018 to 2022, a period in which it was coordinated by the Municipal Budget Office https://presupuestoparticipativovictoria.blogspot.com/.

With 56 projects carried out mostly by municipal employees in the 7 zones into which the city was divided, the program became a member of The Participatory Group (Madrid City Council) and the International Observatory of Participatory Democracy, in addition to being recognized for continuing to work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Currently, the Director of Participatory Budgeting of the city of Córdoba, Neldo Fraye, has been appointed as president of the Argentine Participatory Budget Network.

The Autonomous City of Buenos Aires had its experience with the head of Government Aníbal Ibarra, but later in the administration of Mauricio Macri he was eliminated.

Participatory budgeting is a tool that is also used in several Argentine public universities, one of them is the National University of General Sarmiento (UNGS). In 2017, the fifth edition of the participatory budget was held at the UNGS,[7]​ which proposes to debate the destination of a part of the University's non-recurring funds through participation and collective construction among all members of the university community (students, teaching researchers, non-teaching workers and graduates). The objective is to discuss the problems and needs of the institution, present proposals, defend them, and decide with a vote which projects will receive financing. In 2017, this participatory tool was implemented for the first time at the UNGS Secondary School.[8]​.

On December 10, 2015, the Argentine Association of Participatory Democracy (DP) was established with the objective, among others, of "promoting the implementation of public policies that encourage citizen participation in government decisions."

In various municipalities in Spain, participatory budgeting experiences have been put into practice at the local level:

• - In the Basque Country.

The first case corresponds to a town called Idiazábal "Idiazábal (Guipúzcoa)") in which the construction of a soccer field was debated. The field on which they played in the town belonged to a private company that could claim it at any time and they decided to look for a new place to build one owned by the neighbors. The city council's proposals were located next to a highway and were not to the liking of the residents, the NIP decided to locate it in another area, which when carrying out a study it was found that it was not viable, so they opted for the second proposal. The football field at the time the article was written -1996- had not been built due to lack of budget but it was possible that the chosen place was the location chosen by most of the local residents.

The second case took place in Astigarraga, located on the outskirts of San Sebastián. The government wanted to build a new fronton and sports facilities, but again the location was unclear. Finally, the place chosen, after different discussions and with more participation than the previous process, was a place that the municipal authorities had not thought of. In this case the project could be carried out.

The latest example is the highway that connects the Basque coast with Vitoria, in 1993. There were different routes to build it but because it ran through areas of private land, they did not decide which route to follow. The construction affected 21 municipalities and the NIPs lasted 3 months; In this case, environmental groups, political organizations or chambers of commerce participated, as well as the affected neighbors. Finally, the route chosen was the one that had the least opposition and therefore, the one that the NIPs had decided.

• - In Andalusia: Seville, Málaga and Córdoba "Córdoba (Spain)").

• - In the Community of Madrid: Madrid[9]​.

• - In Catalonia: Barcelona, ​​Santa Cristina de Aro, Figaró-Montmany, Rubí "Rubí (Barcelona)"), Castellar del Vallés, Sabadell, San Baudilio de Llobregat, Valls and Villafranca del Panadés.

• - In the Balearic Islands: Colonia de San Pedro, in the municipality of Artá.

• - In Galicia: The Provincial Council of Lugo is the first provincial administration in Spain to prepare its budgets in a participatory way.

• - In the Region of Murcia: Cartagena "Cartagena (Spain)").

• - In the Valencian Community: Valencia.

In Peru, there were pioneering experiences since the 1980s, when municipal democracy was resumed in the democratic Government of Fernando Belaúnde Terry. In 1984, the new municipality of Villa El Salvador, a district of the metropolitan area of Lima, its first mayor, Michel Azcueta, continued, from the local government, the participatory experience of the neighborhood organization, the Self-Managed Urban Community of Villa El Salvador, CUAVES, incorporating into municipal management both the consultation of citizens and the decision that is made in the open town halls, including decisions on the municipal budget, which is collected by the candidates for mayor of Brazil from the Workers' Party, which, once in power, especially in the City of Porto Alegre, was transformed into the participatory bone or participatory budget. Since 2003, the development of the annual Participatory Budget is mandatory for District, Provincial and Regional Governments (about 1900 jurisdictions at the district level) since it is governed by an expressly promulgated Participatory Budget Law (Law No. 28056). Some variants of Participatory in the Peruvian case are that participation is not on an individual basis but by representations of social organizations of civil society, there is a methodology defined by the Ministry of Economy and Finance where the way of prioritizing projects combines popular consultation with technical weighting and recently the Participatory Budget based on results has been implemented, which seeks to prioritize projects or activities that achieve results and impacts in terms of solving the most urgent problems of the populations of Peru, managing to link said budgetary system with the SNIP public investment system.[10]​.

Other cities in Latin America and, later, in Europe, have adopted participatory budgeting as a form of citizen participation and municipal management, adapting the Porto Alegre model to their own context and democratic tradition. There is currently a great wealth and diversity of models and experiences, with different objectives and procedures.

Among the Latin American experiences, there are Belém do Pará PA, Cosmópolis SP, São Bernardo do Campo SP, Diadema SP, Santo André SP, Jaboticaba SP, Santos SP, Piracicaba, São José dos Campos SP, Santa Bárbara d'Oeste SP, Belo Horizonte MG, Ipatinga MG, Betim MG, Timotéo MG, João Monlevade MG, Florianópolis SC, Blumenau SC, Joinville SC, Palmeira SC, Gravatal SC, Porto Alegre RS, Londria PR, Vitória ES, Vila Velha ES, Rio Branco AC, Brasiilia DF, Recife PE, León MEX.

In Ecuador, the experience of the municipality of Cotacachi during the mayoralty of Auki Tituaña (1996-2009) is recorded.

In Europe, it is worth mentioning the experiences of Bologna (Italy), Seville, Malaga, Valencia and Barcelona (Spain); in North America: Ontario (Canada), Portland, Auburn, the State of Minnesota, New York City (USA); and in Asia, that of Yokohama (Japan).

• - Joan Font; Participatory Intervention Nuclei: analysis of three experiences; GAPP nº 5-6 January-August 1996].

• - Limits and potential of the participatory budget -Valdemir Pires.

• - Participatory budgets in Porto Alegre.

• - Participatory budgets in the Lugo Provincial Council.

• - Participatory budgets of the Valencia City Council.

• - Participatory budgets of Barcelona City Council.

• - Participatory budgets of the New York City Council.

• - Victoria Entre Rios Participatory Budget.

• - Effects of the pandemic and local responses on the implementation of Participatory Budgets in Argentina.

• - The participatory budget in a pandemic: survey of Argentine municipalities.

• - Digital turn? Challenges of Argentine participatory budgets in the face of the covid-19 pandemic.

• - PARTICIPATORY BUDGET IN PANDEMIC.