The Journal of Field Actions, together with Civicus, has just published a special issue “Stories of Innovative Democracy at the Local Level: Enhancing Participation, Activism and Social Change Across the World.” When put together, the 13 articles provide a lively illustration of the wealth of democratic innovations taking place around the world.

• Giovanni Allegretti and Sofia Antunes
  The Lisbon Participatory Budget: results and perspectives on an experience in slow but continuous transformation
• Osvaldo Elissetche and Liliana Seiras
  Local democratic government and the promotion of rights for children and teenagers: An experience in Argentina
• Oluseun Onigbinde
  The Nigerian Budget: Using Creative Technology to Intersect Civic Engagement and Institutional Reform
• Vanna Ianni
  New forms of democratic local government: The case of the Citizen’s Committee for decentralised cooperation in Rome
• Alex Sardar, Lusine Hakobyan, Negar Tayyar and Tatevik Davtyan
  Smart Policy Making: Citizen Voice, Sustainable Choice

• Katherine R. Knobloch, John Gastil, Traci Feller, Robert C. Richards and Robert C. Jr
  Empowering Citizen Deliberation in Direct Democratic Elections: A Field Study of the 2012 Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review
• Estelle-Fleur Galateau
  The Atelier Climat, a French citizen consultation process set up to promote sustainable development: a local democratic innovation?
• Pravas Ranjan Mishra
  Citizens participation in budget making process of the State of Odisha (India): Opportunities, Learnings and Challenges
• Habibou Ibrahim, Marc Mormont and Boubacar Yamba
  Local innovations and initiatives in the management of conflicts and health risks in agro-pastoral zones: the SAREL and PASEL projects in the Dakoro, department in Niger
• Landitiana Soamarina Miakatra
  Community participation and water supply in deprived areas of Madagascar
• Om Prakash Arya and Madhu Sudan Sharma
  Transparency in delivery of entitlements through empowered Civil Society Organisations (CSOs): The Consortium of Groups for Combating Corruption (CGCC) model in Rajasthan, India
• Andrew Kawooya Ssebunya
  Why local realities matter for Citizens’ Voice and Accountability
• Tossou Atchrimi
  Community development and participation in Togo: the case of AGAIB Plateaux
• Ming Zhuang
  Participatory Budgeting, Rural Public Services and Pilot Local Democracy Reform