Museum of Modern PBRead from the reading room: the Charte du Budget Participatif de Paris (Ville de Paris, 2014), the 2014 mode d'emploi page of budgetparticipatif.paris.fr (Ville de Paris, 2014), the press release on the second phase (Ville de Paris, 13 November 2014), the Charte applying from the 2023 edition (Ville de Paris, 2023) and its exposé des motifs 2022 DDCT 103 (DDCT, 2022), the notice on majority judgment (Ville de Paris, 2021), the guides du dépôt 2022 and 2025 (Ville de Paris, 2021 and 2024), the citizen guide Faire Paris à votre idée (Ville de Paris, 2018), the 2018 English deck and the 2021 Seoul forum deck (Coline Berthaud, Ville de Paris, 2018 and 2021), the February 2021 information meeting deck and the Paris Centre deck (Ville de Paris, 2021), the January 2025 information meeting deck (Mairie du 13e and DDCT, 2025), the 5e arrondissement deck (Mairie du 5e, 2018), the Gazette du Budget Participatif n° 1 (Ville de Paris, 2017), the URBACT good practice summary (Ari Brodach, 2017), the Décider pour Paris press kit (Ville de Paris, 2022), the press release for the 11th edition (Ville de Paris, 2025), the paris.fr pages on the 2017 bilan, the 2021 to 2025 results, the 2023 sport projects, the 10 ans dossier, the standing explainer and the associations accompagnatrices (Ville de Paris, 2017 to 2025), the 2025 results deck (Ville de Paris, 2025), the Secrétariat général overview Paris, participation citoyenne et gouvernement ouvert (Ville de Paris, 2020), the Inspection générale reports 18-27-01 and 18-27-02 (Inspection générale de la Ville de Paris, 2020), the studies by William Arhip-Paterson (2018), Yves Cabannes (2017) and Estela Brahimllari (2020), the council papers 2021 DDCT 77, 2022 DDCT 77 and 2026 DDCT 33 (DDCT), the appels à projets BPQPOP22 and BP25QPOP (DDCT, 2021 and 2024), the Conseil du 17e minutes of 18 January 2021 (Mairie du 17e, 2021), the Conseil de quartier Belleville motion (2023), the budget primitif 2019 and 2020 reports (Direction des finances et des achats, 2019 and 2020), the open data description (Paris Data, 2026) and the three open data CSV exports on winning projects, voters per edition and worksites (Paris Data, 2026).
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v1 · 12 October 2026 · curator Goal
The goal of Budget Participatif de Paris is to let Parisians propose and vote directly on 5% of the City's investment budget, drawing on their everyday expertise, so that ties and trust between residents, elected officials and the administration are rebuilt, public finance becomes transparent and legible, and Parisians learn how their city works.
Values
Trust · Convener-stated · Lived
Transparency · Convener-stated · Lived
Equity · Convener-stated · Lived
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Partners and Roles
Mission Budget Participatif (central PB unit) · Convener · Public
Steering committee (Secrétariat général) · Decision-maker · Public
Mayor and deputy mayor for participation · Champion or steward · Public
Conseil de Paris · Decision-maker · Public
Borough halls (mairies d'arrondissement) · Decision-maker · Public
City departments and their PB liaisons · Specialist · Public
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Priority Audiences
Specific neighborhoods or geographies of need · Equity · Targeted outreach within a universal process, Dedicated channels
Youth · Representation gap · Targeted outreach within a universal process, Dedicated channels
People excluded from electoral politics · None
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Pot of Money
17.7 million euros (2014) · Public (tax-funded) · Can be used for capital
67.7 to 94.1 million euros a year (2015 to 2019) · Public (tax-funded) · Can be used for capital
74.6 to 83.1 million euros a year (2021 to 2025) · Public (tax-funded) · Can be used for capital
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Authority and Mandate
Executive · Informal · Binding
Council or board · Formal · Binding
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Activities
Idea collection · Process · Per cycle
Outreach · Process · Per cycle
Proposal development · Process · Per cycle
Deliberation · Process · Per cycle
Sortition · Process · Per cycle
Voting or deciding · Process · Per cycle
Vote campaigning by project holders · Process · Per cycle
Implementation oversight · Process · Continuous
Cycle debrief · Process · Per cycle
Civic education about PB · System · Continuous
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Feedback Loops
Inspection générale audit, two reports, 2020 · Internal team · One-time
Steering committee annual review · Internal team · Every cycle
Ipsos survey of Parisians, 2017 · Internal team · One-time
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Geographies
Tout Paris · Municipal or citywide · Administrative
Arrondissements (20, then 17 from 2020) · District · Administrative
Quartiers populaires · Neighborhood · Need-based
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Engagement Channels
Online platform (budgetparticipatif.paris.fr, then Décider pour Paris) · Digital platform · Self-service
Paper ballot boxes, fixed and mobile · Paper · In-person group
Paid street mobilisers at voting points · Door-to-door · One-on-one
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Costs
960+ staff in city departments and borough halls · Staff time · Organizational
Idea review staff, 42 to 89 FTE a year · Staff time · Organizational
Project delivery staff, 79 to 155 FTE a year · Staff time · Organizational
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Effects
Voters grew from 40,745 (2014) to 162,395 (2025) · Behavior or practice change · Positive
Paper voting overtook online, 73% in 2019 · Behavior or practice change · Mixed or unintended
Idea proposers down 58% (2015 to 2019) · Behavior or practice change · Negative
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