interventions: context. challenge. discussion
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Some reflections on the challenges in setting up co-commissioned cultural projects as part of the AHRC-funded Cultural Intermediation research.TRANSCRIPT
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Interventions WPContext. Challenge. Discussion.
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Participatory budgeting
• Experiments in 1970s/80s Brazil • Famously implemented from 1989 in Porto Alegre• Philosophical commitment on political left to
increasing democracy within a socialist project• Desire to bypass corrupt/clientalist local cliques• Target deprived neighbourhoods for additional
funding• UN Habitat II Istanbul 1996, participatory budgeting
one of 42 best practices for urban governance
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Birmingham’s ‘Jaws of doom’
‘Governments must have the resources to implement the projects that participants select.’ (Wampler, 2007, 25)
£600m funding shortfall
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• DCLG’s Neighbourhood Community Budget Pilot Oct 2011-Apr 2013
• co-design• exploring the scales at
which decentralisation of services works best• assessing community
capacity and appetite (DCLG, 2013, 11)
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Birmingham Cultural [budgeting] Pilots• Running 2013-14• Built on experience from DCLG’s Neighbourhood
Community Budget Pilot Oct 2011-Apr 2013
• £95k ACE/BCC/DCLG• Three case study neighbourhoods mapping onto
Community budget pilot areas• Balsall Heath• Castle Vale• Shard End
• £40k extension from DCLG/ACE agreed March 2014
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Yorkswood Griffins
• An historical curiosity• Local rather than city-
wide interest• Local ownership = local
empowerment?
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Challenge: Cultural Intermediation pilots• Balsall Heath & Ordsall• Assemble a commissioning panel for each
neighbourhood• Training from LJMU• Commissioning panel meetings – YVJ as expert
member• Commissions• Participatory evaluation – D O’B