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Guidance Document

PROCESS TRACING Issued on 2017 by Intrac

Process tracing is a qualitative analysis methodology. The main purpose of process tracing is to establish whether, and how, a potential cause or causes influenced a specified change or set of changes. This is done by applying formal tests to examine the strength of evidence linking potential causes to the changes. Process tracing also involves testing alternative ideas about how change might have come about.