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Bugets - Allocate budget for specific categories

Avatar: Antti Hukkanen Antti Hukkanen
15/03/2019 13:52  

We had a real life case where a town is using Decidim for their participatory budgeting. They had the following kind of "topics" for which they had already allocated specific budget (one budget per topic):

- General wellbeing - 40% of the budget
- Culture and arts - 10% of the budget
- Town areas (5 areas in total) - 5-15% of the total budget depending on the area's population

Each of the "topics" had specific allocated amount of the total budget.

We implemented it using separate budgeting components for each of the topics but from the end user perspective this is not ideal as they need to vote on multiple separate "votings".

A better way would be to have ability to allocate specific amount of the total budget per topic and then cast a single vote for the total budget.

This would need more thinking in regards of the UX, just leaving this here for further discussions for now.

The reason they had allocated the budget like this was political, so the people running the process could not influence that at this point.

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Avatar: Lucas Hamani Lucas Hamani
09/04/2019 09:09
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We just had a client request really close to this proposal.
Our client has been using our "Vote per project" feature, which enable users to vote for a specific and mandatory number of projects rather than budget amounts.
His request is that he wishes to, within this specific and mandatory number of projects, restrict a fraction of votes to a specific category.

For instance, a participatory budget has 3 categories (sport, culture and ecology) and users must vote for 5 projects (no more, no less). 2 out of the user's 5 votes must be for sport since it was defined as such by the admin.

By the way, @carol, @ahu would you be interested in our "Vote per project" feature ? Tell me if you want to know more about it.

Avatar: Carol Romero Carol Romero verified-badge
09/04/2019 11:58
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Yes please! This could be of interest to other cities

Avatar: Lucas Hamani Lucas Hamani
09/04/2019 12:15
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All right then. I'll ask @Armand-OSP to send a PR this week.

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