Volunteering Equality Rights Action
VERA

After centrally organised training of trainers by CEV, online and offline cascaded training activities in Member States were organised on “Funding Volunteering through Participatory Budgeting”.  

Participatory budgeting is one way to help combat inequality when resources are being allocated and “causes” prioritised. As defined by CIVICUS, participatory budgeting is where citizens directly participate in the allocation of a defined part of a government‟s (typically at the local level) budget. Such a system allows citizens to have a direct say on local public spending regardless of their respective positions in civil society organisations. This means that social groups who are often excluded from decision making processes, such as women, can have their voices heard. Under the PB process, issues faced by women that, as a consequence of them not holding as many decision maker roles are often ignored, can be discussed and have a greater chance of having funding allocation.

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A total of 399 participants (39 male & 107 female) in 12 countries took part:

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Bulgaria (BG) - 21 September 2023 with 29 participants (8 male and 21 female)

Croatia (HR) - 10 November 2023 with 20 participants (8 male and 12 female)

Hungary (HU) - 23 November 2023 with 9 participants (2 male and 7 female)

Hungary (HU) - 9 October 2023 with 7 participants (3 male and 4 female)

Hungary (HU) -  22 June 2023 with 14 participants (3 male and 11 female)

France (FR) - 31 October 2023 with 25 participants (15 male and 10 female)

France (FR) - 8 December 2023 with 30 participants (15 male, 14 female and 1 non-binary)

Italy (IT) - 24 May 2023 with 26 participants (5 female and 21 female)

Italy (IT) - 31 November 2023 with 30 participants (17 male and 13 female)

Italy (IT) - 21 April 2023 with 8 participants (5 male and 3 female)

Italy (EN) - 22 April 2023 with 21 participants (10 male and 11 female)

Portugal (PT) - 9 November 2023 with 23 participants (7 male and 16 female)

Portugal (PT) - 15 June 2023 with 20 participants (5 male and 15 female)

Poland (PL) - 26 October 2023 with 26 participants (7 male and 19 female) 

Romania (RO) - 7 November 2023 19 participants (7 male and 32 female)

Slovakia (SK) - 14 September 2023 with 25 participants (5 male and 20 female)

Slovenia (SI) - 7 September 2023 with 32 participants (4 male, 27 female and 1 non-binary)

Spain (ES) - 15 September 2023 with 15 participants (2 male and 12 female and 1 non-binary)