Subject(s): Economic development in Social aspects. -- Coalitions. -- Interorganizational relations. -- Looking back- concepts and perspectives : Social institutions in development, understanding institutional development, relevance of social ecology, key ideas in neo-institutional economics, thinking system -- Practitioner experiences : Case studies in institutional development- Introduction to cases, Kurubas of Ranebennur- traditional community livelihood system, disseminating a new technology- multiple stakeholding approach, tribal co-operative enterprise, LEISA network: co-operating for sustainable agriculture, NESA- an institution in making, community grain banks- an alternative public distribution system, FEVORD-K - an NGO network, ASTRA stove- towards an alternative dissemination model, case leads for further consideration, emerging questions -- Looking ahead- institutional development at work