Organizing Deliberative Forums for Policy Design: A Methodological Review of a Policy-making Experiment in Nigeria's Education System. RISE Series Working Paper

The text explores the effects of introducing deliberative reforms to democratic institutions, focusing on the RISE Nigeria project. It provides a methodological template for organizing effective government-stakeholder deliberations, emphasizing government buy-in, stakeholder representation, data generation, consensual policy convergence, and empirical validity. The paper highlights the need for post-Summit monitoring and suggests guidelines for future replication of deliberative summits.