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In the city of Porto Alegre, in some years, up to 40 % of the city budget was distributed through the practice of initiative budgeting. On average, at least 10 % are allocated to PB projects annually.

In Russia, regional practices of initiative budgeting rarely exceed 1 % of total budgetary expenditures. Exceptions are several regions. In 2016, the Yaroslavl Region started the implementation of the program “Develop the Region by Anniversary”, for which it was envisaged to allocate over 1.6 billion budgetary funds. This amount is almost 2 % of the regional budget. It is gratifying that most of the projects are implemented on the basis of decisions and participation of citizens.

It will be appropriate to draw attention to the fact that the minimum amount of the pilot program of a constituent territory of the Russian Federation should be above 20–30 million rubles. Otherwise, it is difficult to determine and assess the effects of initiative budgeting: projects are few, there are a large number of losers in the competition, and the costs of consulting projects are high.