David Mosse is Lecturer in Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London., John Farrington is Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Natural Resources Group at the Overseas Development Institute, London., Alan Rew is Professor of Development Policy and Planning and Director of the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Wales, Swansea.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Process-Oriented Approaches to Development Practice and Social Research, David Mosse; Chapter 2 Process Documentation Research and Process Monitoring, David Mosse; Part 1 Process Monitoring and Impact Assessment in Development Projects; Chapter 3 Part icipatory Water Resources Development in Western India, R. Part hasarathy, Sudarshan Iyengar; Chapter 4 An Evolutionary Approach to Organisational Learning, Rick Davies; Chapter 5 Impact Assessment, Process Projects and Output-to-Purpose Reviews, Anne Coles, Phil Evans, Charlotte Heath; Part 2 Process Monitoring in Inter-Agency Contexts; Chapter 6 Part nership as Process, David J. Lewis; Chapter 7 A Donor’s Perspective and Experience of Process and Process Monitoring, Ruth Alsop; Chapter 8 Process Monitoring and Inter-Organisational Collaboration in Indian Agriculture, John Farrington, Elon Gilbert, Rajiv Khandelwal; Part 3 Process Monitoring and Policy Reform; Chapter 9 The Resolution and Validation of Policy Reform, Alan Rew, Angelika Brustinow;