Budget Buddy provides an easy to understand, intuitive tool for citizens to see the impact of their choices on their personal rates and make trade off decisions based on this.

Create understanding, trust and transparency

Simplifying the data helps make understanding it, easier. The more people engage and understand, the more informed their responses will be. Evidence shows that including citizens in the processes, builds their confidence in elected members. For councils, restoring a trusting relationship between local government and community, is critical.

Efficiency

Participatory Budgeting costs money, but it also takes a lot of time- traditionally. Budget Buddy is a time efficient tool that means councilors no longer need to knock on doors, hold community meetings, or guess which projects are most important to their community. Instead citizens can get far more information, far easier, and submit feedback to you through the feedback features.

Empower the community

One of the problems councils face is people making artificial choices when voting in referendums. What Budget Buddy does, is help people to understand the importance of trade-offs. Building intelligence in the community around the impact of trade-off decisions helps to strengthen understanding and decision-making.