Allison B's List: Organizing

• : participatory budgeting. This is a process in which people who are impacted by a budget directly and democratically decide how it is spent
• Brazilian city of Porto Alegre
• diagnosis, discussion, decision-making, implementation, and monitoring

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• facilitator
• works in such a way that the people present at the meeting are aware that they are in charge, that it is their business that is being conducted, and that each person has a role to play.
• Something to gather people,
• Be suspicious of agreements reached too easily
• Don't let discussion continue between two people, but ask for comments by others
• hold people to speaking for themselves only and to being specific when they refer to others NO "some people say", "we all know", "they would not listen".
• Keep looking for minor points of agreement and state them - it helps morale

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