The Participatory and Integrated Policy (PIP) is a structured approach to research, dialogue, decision-making, institutional reform and development-resource allocation, which promotes greater involvement of all stakeholders in the policy process and harmonizes their conflicting objectives, strategies and capacities. This document explains the PIP process. It starts by discussing the policy process as it currently operates. It then discusses the importance of small-scale fisheries and the consequences of not addressing current policy failures. The conflicts within the policy process are then outlined and ways of reducing these conflicts through greater policy harmonization are discussed. The PIP process, and a framework to assist policy formulation, are then outlined. The last section links the PIP process to other fisheries activities through the sub-sectoral development cycle.