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?