1. Editorial. ~2. Comparing transect walks with experts and local people - Ishmail Mahiri. ~3. Musings on the use of chapati diagrams - Cathy Rozel Farnworth. ~4. Participatory community planning: some unresolved challenges from The Gambia - Sharon Truelove. ~5. Beauty is in the process and not in the name: an alternative approach for participatory planning - Kamal Bhattacharyya and Ajay Kumar. ~6. Reflections on institutionalising participatory approaches in local NGOs in Eastern Nepal - Marion Gibbon and Gopal Shrestha. ~Special Issue: Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation: ~7. Tracking change together - Irene Guijt, Mae Arevalo and Kiko Saladores. ~8. Monitoring and evaluating in the Nepal-UK Community Forestry project - Raj Kumar Rai. ~9. Participatory self-evaluation of World Neighbors, Burkina Faso - Paul Bandre. ~10. Institutional issues for monitoring local development in - Victor Hugo Torres D. ~11. Growing from the grassroots: building participatory planning, monitoring and evaluation methods in PARC - Janet Symes and Sa’ed Jasser. ~12. ELF - 3 year impact evaluation: experiences and insights - Roy Abes. ~13. Participatory monitoring and evaluation in flood proofing pilot project, CARE-Bangladesh - Shawkat Ara. ~14. Feedback: Can stratified PRA platforms improve dialogue and build consensus? - C.U.Okuye with a response from Somesh Kumar. ~15. Extracts: 3D Venn diagram in PRA - a methodological innovation - Somesh Kumar. ~16. A brief guide to the principles of PLA (1). ~17. Tips for trainers. ~In Touch.