She moderated the workshop by engaging the audience through more than 15 Slido questions: three concerning each subject of the discussion, the responses to which were commented on by each speaker, and three at the beginning of the session. [...] The importance of closing the feedback loop together with the commitment of representatives/politicians from the start of the process for real impact. [...] The success factors of Participatory Budgeting (PB) – presented by Giovanni Allegretti (who coordinated the CEPA Strategy on Participatory Budgeting published by the UN-DESA agency last year) – are mainly linked to its capacity of making visible the outputs and impacts of the process within a short time frame. [...] The participants agreed, through the Slido questions, that the fact the citizens can vote on a list of priorities to be ratified by institutions and then implemented and monitored by participants is a pivotal element that contributes to the success of PB. [...] Christophe Lefèvre, summed up the conclusions which led to the elaboration of the three follow-up steps presented at the concluding session of the Civil Society Week by Ms.
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