Your views or ideas on our draft values and principles

What do you think about the draft values that the PB Unit has produced?

The following values have been suggested:

Local Ownership:

• Involving all concerned in decisions made around PB processes & projects
• Ensuring local representation is supported by the wider community
• Promoting the participation of individuals and communities, particularly those traditional marginalised or excluded

Direct Involvement

• Promoting direct involvement of communities in PB processes
• Promoting direct involvement in budget decisions
• Committed to the provision and promotion of training, development or capacity building which support direct community involvement

Support Representative Democracy

• Committed to promoting and supporting representative democracy
• Supporting the role of ward councillors as community champions
• Developing both representative and participatory models to work along side each other

Mainstream Involvement

• Promoting models of PB where mainstream funding is used and repeated annually
• Promoting capacity building needed for good decision-making on mainstream budgets by communities

Accessibility

• Committed to ensuring accessibility for all involved
• Recognising and challenging barriers to full and effective participation
• Promoting widespread and relevant promotion of PB events

Transparency

• Committed to open and clear processes in PB projects
• Involving communities in scrutiny of PB funded projects/programmes
• Committed to providing full and open information on all public budgets

Deliberation

• Committing to a deliberation process as an integral part of PB
• Supporting practices which promote deliberation
• Supporting deliberative democracy

Empowerment

• Promoting the empowerment of individuals and communities through PB
• Promoting 'active citizenship' in creating better public services
• Supporting a stronger civil society
• Committed to community development and capacity building within PB

Co-responsibility

• Committed to clarity and transparency of the aims of PB projects
• Committed to involvement of all stakeholders in setting aims of PB projects
• Committed to clarity of roles and responsibilities in PB projects
• Developing community sense of ownership and responsibility for their local areas

We want to know if:

1. Do you think the values and their principles & standards clearly define PB from other engagement mechanisms, where relevant? If no, where could it be clearer?
2. Are there any PB specific values that you think have been omitted? If yes, what are they and why? What would their respective principles &
standards be?
3. Do you think there are superfluous or general values that could be removed? If yes, which ones and why?
4. Do you think the final values, principles & standards document will be helpful to you
when undertaking PB processes? If no, why not? What could be added to it to make it more useful?

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