MANAGING THE POLICY PROCESS
The focus of the first nine lessons is on a set of actions that will generally produce a constructive and effective process of coordination and facilitation (here called "managing the process"). Lessons from these actions focus on: (1) the roles of the participants in the policy process; (2) the importance of communication (dialogue) for exchanging information and reaching agreement on the policy opportunities and how best to pursue those opportunities; and (3) the sequencing and temporal dimensions of the process. A short introduction to these actions is provided below and each action is linked to the corresponding lessons in Table 1.