The Paris Citizens' Assembly

About this episode

This episode discusses the establishment and design of the Paris Citizens' Assembly with key figures involved in its creation.

In this bonus episode, I talk with Anouch Toranian , the Deputy Mayor of Paris, Yves Dejaeghere , the Executive Director of the Federation for Innovation in Democracy, Europe and Claudia Chwalisz , leader of i nnovation in citizen engagement with the OECD about the design and establishment of the Paris Citizens' Assembly. The Paris Citizens' Assembly was established in 2021 with 100 Parisians representing the diversity of the city of Paris. The Assembly is charged with evaluating past programs or policies, setting up citizens' juries and determining the topic for Paris' annual participatory budgeting process . The Assembly is unique in that the Council are sharing with the Assembly members responsibility for designing how it works.

People in this episode

Host: Nivek Thompson

Guests: Anouch Toranian, Yves Dejaeghere, Claudia Chwalisz

Topics covered

• citizen engagement
• participatory budgeting
• local governance
• democracy
• public policy

Keywords

• Paris Citizens' Assembly
• citizen juries
• participatory democracy
• local governance
• public engagement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Federation for Innovation in Democracy, Europe, OECD

Places: Paris

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