Gujja, Biksham

Contributions on issues of accountability and transparency

This article presents a number of contributions from an e-forum debate on issues of accountability and transparency in Deliberative and Inclusionary Processes which grew out of a citizen jury and scenario workshop in southern India. It is based around the questions:|Who decides to whom and for whom citizen jury processes are accountable?|How can such participatory processes by used to hold government departments, donor agencies, and other actors more accountable, and make policies and policy processes more responsive to the needs and priorities of poor people?

Contributions on issues of evidence, legitimacy, and authenticity

This article presents a number of contributions from an e-forum debate on issues of evidence, legitimacy and authenticity in Deliberative and Inclusionary Processes which grew out of a citizen jury and scenario workshop in southern India. It is based around the question: how can we ensure that citizen jury processes are fair and unbiased so that their 'verdicts' are accepted as trustworthy by all relevant actors?