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Sub-Saharan Africa is a region that has witnessed a fast-growing number of experiences of Participatory Budgeting. This chapter analyses the regional diffusion of this device, taking into account not only the role of the “Ambassadors of Participation”, which are now different from the early local authorities that developed PB in Porto Alegre. The action of regional and international organizations is also explored. The chapter also compares cases of adoption and abandonment of PB in different regions of Africa: Francophone (Senegal and Madagascar), Lusophone (Mozambique) and Anglophone (South Africa).
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Porto de Oliveira, O. (2017). Sowing Democratic Seeds in the Desert: The Diffusion of PB in Sub-Saharan Africa. In: International Policy Diffusion and Participatory Budgeting. Urban Politics in a Global Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43337-0_7
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