Participatory Budgeting

Make informed, community-backed investments. Participatory Budgeting with Go Vocal enables you to:

  • Crowdsource ideas and let the community help you prioritise
  • Enjoy a fully customisable process that’s still quick and straightforward to set up
  • Combine online and offline votes seamlessly for inclusive engagement

Go Vocal’s Participatory Budgeting tool gives residents a voice in the funding of projects and services.

Use it to gauge community sentiment, build consensus, and educate the public on the costs and trade-offs in public spending, helping prioritise the projects that matter most.

This bottom-up participation method empowers residents to shape policies and initiatives directly, leveraging their unique position to identify and address gaps in current policies, fostering a more inclusive and responsive democratic process. Go Vocal offers everything to set you up for success. From an intuitive space for residents to propose, support, and discuss initiatives to a strong back-end that gives you valuable insights into what truly matters to your community.

Why our Participatory Budgeting feature is ideal for informed budget spending decisions

  • Adaptable yet efficient setup: Customise every aspect of the participatory budgeting process to fit your specific goals and needs, all while benefiting from a quick setup that makes it easy to launch.
  • Inclusive and multi-channel participation: Reach residents through multiple channels by consolidating both online and paper votes. This ensures that all voices are counted, no matter how participants choose to engage.
  • Transparent cost insights: Display the estimated costs for each proposal, allowing residents to make informed decisions comparing by cost, merit, and necessity, and see the direct impact of their choices on their virtual budget.
  • Clear, data-driven results: Capture valuable insights on community preferences as participants allocate their budgets, revealing which projects hold the most support and aligning investments with public priorities.
  • Vibrant community interaction: Encourage participation with features like commenting, liking, and disliking.
  • Statuses and official updates: Keep participants informed about how their input is used, promoting transparency and trust.

See Participatory Budgeting in action

See how Participatory Budgeting works on Vocal Point, our interactive demo platform. Allocate resources, prioritize projects, and experience how this method transforms community decision-making.

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The addition of these online input opportunities transformed Engage Allen from an information board into a true engagement space and allowed us to hear from far more people than just those who were able to attend in-person meetings.

Erik Waldbauer
Marketing Specialist, City of Allen, TX

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