Contributions on issues of engagement with the policy process

This article presents a number of contributions from an e-forum debate on issues of engagement with the policy process in Deliberative and Inclusionary Processes which grew out of a citizen jury and scenario workshop in southern India. It is based around the questions:|How can citizen juries and related approaches help create spaces for constructive exchanges between key stakeholders?|How can they be used to foster effective links between research and advocacy?|How can donors engage effectively with democratically elected governments and civil society organisations through the use of participatory approaches, such as citizen juries?