{"id":6209,"date":"2026-04-15T17:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ngoc.am\/programs\/spb\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T18:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T18:19:10","slug":"spb","status":"publish","type":"programs","link":"https:\/\/ngoc.am\/en\/programs\/spb\/","title":{"rendered":"School Participatory Budgeting (SPB)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div role=\"feed\" aria-label=\"Chat messages\" aria-describedby=\"_r_5m8_\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div tabindex=\"0\" role=\"article\" aria-setsize=\"4\" aria-posinset=\"4\" aria-label=\"Message 4 of 4\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>An extracurricular program in which students themselves decide how to spend part of the school&#8217;s budget by developing, presenting, and voting on their own projects.<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The &#8220;School Participatory Budgeting&#8221; (SPB) program is an innovative educational initiative developed by the &#8220;NGO Center&#8221; Civil Society Development NGO, which gives students the opportunity to take part, through hands-on experience, in decisions about how a portion of the school&#8217;s budget is allocated. The program is based on &#8220;learning by doing&#8221; and project-based learning approaches: students identify real needs of their school or community, develop and publicly present projects addressing them, draw up realistic budgets, vote, and carry out the winning initiatives.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In this way, the school becomes a platform for collaboration, transparency, and joint creativity, where every student can become an active participant in the school&#8217;s development and an initiator of change.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>This program was developed and is being implemented by the &#8220;NGO Center&#8221; Civil Society Development NGO using its own resources.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6210,"template":"","class_list":["post-6209","programs","type-programs","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","programs_type-current-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngoc.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs\/6209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngoc.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngoc.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/programs"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngoc.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngoc.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}