Despite the rhetoric of bottom-up development, the international development agenda remains dominated by the economic interests and institutional priorities of the north, and supported by knowledge generated through northern universities, resource centres and think tanks. One means of addressing this imbalance is to ensure that the research used to determine and justify development priorities is both southern-driven and accessible to southern-based policymakers and development practitioners. IFRTD has pioneered and tested a Networked Research Approach that fully reflects its southern-driven networking principles. Network Research is a framework for conducting development research that builds ownership, communications, and advocacy into the overall design of the research programme. Through this process-oriented approach, international researchers are given the opportunity to work together to a common analytical framework, to cross-pollinate one another’s work, to complement each other’s research capacities and to participate in the synthesis and bringing together of the key issues. This hands-on guide to conducting research in a network setting was developed by the International Forum for Rural Transport and Development (IFRTD) in order to share their research approach with other networks. Working from a philosophy of knowledge that is inclusive and democratic, and which values south-south exchange, IFRTD have sought to bring together practitioners with researchers, to combine detailed experiences of complex development issues with the rigor of research practice. This handbook sets out, in a straightforward way, the principles of networked research and how to conduct and use that research to leverage change.