Local Government
1830-1840
Large Cities
1
Capital Cities
1
Regional or State Governments
5
National Government
0
Other Institutions
10
Local Government
1830-1840
Large Cities
1
Capital Cities
1
Regional or State Governments
5
National Government
0
Other Institutions
10
Community
Capital
Warsaw
Population
37 978 550
Language
Polish
Currency
Polish Zloty
Indexes
Democracy
54
Flawed Democracy
Democracy
Democracy
54
Flawed Democracy
Democracy
Corruption Perception
36/180
Corruption Perception
Corruption Perception
36/180
Corruption Perception
Human Development
33
Very High
Human Development
Human Development
33
Very High
Human Development
World Happiness
40/156
World Happiness
World Happiness
40/156
World Happiness
Legislation Regarding the Regulation of Participatory Budgeting Experiences
1. Since 2009 there is a national law act about Solecki Fund (for rural areas). It changed in 2014;
2. Until 2018, Participatory Budgeting in towns and regional governments had a form of consultation under local law (non- obligatory) usually as local government law act;
3. Since the end of 2018, Participatory Budgeting is mandatory for big towns (66), and for every local and regional government, P.B has to have a form of local government law act (that it’s based on new national law regulations).
Outstanding Innovation
There’s a national law regulation about Participatory Budgeting, unifying the shape of P.B local law regulation (until 2018 there was only regulation at the national level, according to Solecki Fund). P.B will be also mandatory for “big towns” from 2019 due mentioned regulations.
Principal Tendencies Detected
1. We can notice that the number of local governments associated with the Solecki Fund suffer a high from 2014 until 2017, then it stopped (slight decrease from 1479 in 2017 to 1467 in 2018);
2. There is a small growth of P.B experiences in towns, but in 2018 some of the towns that have developed P.B experiences in the previous years did not continue them;
3. Big towns introduced mobile voting points and e-voting (in some towns where it was not possible before);
4. Local governments are looking for a better distribution of P.B funds between districts, residential areas, states (e.g. avoiding the problem of population density in voting);
5. In big towns, the number of participants and proposals for P.B are decreasing.
Other Information
1. About 70% of local governments in Poland introduced some kind of PB. The estimation of an exact percentage is very difficult due to the possibility of introducing both PB and Solecki Fund in one local government (urban-rural type about 50 units).
2. In 2018 there were 1462 (494 urban-rural and 968 rural) of 2175 types of local governments that had Solecki Fund.
3. In 2018 there were about 360 towns with PB processes (according to voting process statistics - not expenditures - and local law acts). Comparing different data source (NGO statistics, web pages of local government, social media) and local law regulations. This number seems to be most correct.
4. There are at least 15 over-local PB (over 10 pow iats1 and 5 regions).
5. It is hard to estimate P.B introduced by other institutions - for example some of universities and schools introduced PB for students and pupils.
The main problem is a lack of official government detailed statistics about different forms of PB.
