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Extension - Participatory Methods

A participatory learning approach, applied at each stage of a community development project, is crucial to reaching the level of stakeholder involvement needed for lasting, positive change.   The use of participatory survey and planning methods in the development process encourages community ownership of projects, allows for information to flow between both the community and the development organization, and enhances accountability between the organization and the community.

  1. Agriculture Extension with Community-Level Workers: Lessons and Practices from Community Health and Community Animal Health Programs

    Key Resource
    2015-11-04 Active learning and exchange of knowledge are key to farmer adoption of beneficial agricultural innovations. Community health worker (CHW) and community animal health worker (CAHW) programs have led to a rich body of knowledge about extension, much of which is applicable to efforts aimed towards...
    MEAS Agriculture Extension Community Development CHW CAHW Community Health

  2. Participatory Methods and Tools in Community Development

    2015-05-19 A participatory learning approach, applied at each stage of a community development project, is crucial to reaching the level of stakeholder involvement needed for lasting, positive change. The use of participatory survey and planning methods in the development process encourages community...
    MEAS Agriculture Extension Participatory Lear...

  3. The Participatory Approach: Illustrations from Experience

    This article is from ECHO Asia Note #18 “Participatory methods” in community development initially emerged in the 1970s, and interest in their use has continued to increase among practitioners, especially in recent years.1 Many practitioners agree that this growing acceptance is a good thing, as...
    Community Development Agriculture Develo... Rural Development Participatory Methods Asia

  4. Sustainable Agriculture Land Management Practices for Climate Change Mitigation

    This training guide was developed within the context of a participatory action research project focusing on the institutional arrangements of smallholder agricultural carbon projects in Sub-Saharan Africa led by EcoAgriculture Partners and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change,...
    Participatory Methods

  5. RIPAT – A Menu Approach in Rural Food Security Promotion

    2017-02-09 RIPAT (Rural Initiatives for Participatory Agricultural Transformation) is a participatory extension approach aims to close the agricultural technology gap as a means of improving livelihoods and self-support among rural small-scale farmers. The approach is as well a documented step-by-step guide...
    Agricultural Trans... Food Security Nutrition Farmer Global South Agricultural Devel... Small Scale Appropriate Techno... Technology Transfer East Africa

  6. Language and Development

    2015-10-06
    Development Asia

  7. Farming for Change: A Participatory Integrated Curriculum Project

    A group of scientists, farmers and staff from development organizations in Malawi and Tanzania put together an integrated curriculum onagroecology,climate change,nutritionandsocial equity. This training material was written in such a way that rural people with limited education can use it to...
    Soil Agroecology Climate Change Nutrition Gender Equality Agriculture Develo... Community Development Participatory Curriculum East Africa

  8. Learning Together: The Agricultural Worker's Participatory Sourcebook

    Key Resource The down-to-earth, practical, essential manual for agricultural and livestock trainers. Tips, techniques, and ideas from agricultural trainers from more than 25 countries on five continents. Over 200 dynamics, games, tools, and ideas to use in training events. Step-by-step process to follow in...
    Agricultural Resou... Educational Resources CVM

  9. Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: The Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults

    2002-01-20 In this updated version of her landmark book Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach, celebrated adult educator Jane Vella revisits her twelve principles of dialogue education with a new theoretical perspective gleaned from the discipline of quantum physics. Vella sees the path to learning as a...
    Adult education Adult learning

  10. Dialogue education and farmers

    2017-11-16 In this session we will explore how seven steps of learning design, “4 A’s” for designing learning activities, and taking account of cognitive domains and learning styles can energize the farmer-teacher interaction.The ideas we will use in this session are based on the teachings of Jane Vella...

  11. Dialogue education and farmers

    In this session we will explore how seven steps of learning design, “4 A’s” for designing learning activities, and taking account of cognitive domains and learning styles can energize the farmer-teacher interaction.The ideas we will use in this session are based on the teachings of Jane Vella...
    Education Agriculture Extension

  12. Developing Technology with Farmers: A Trainer's Guide for Participatory Learning

    Key Resource 1998-02-15 This Manual is written for trainers in governmental and non-governmental development organizations who are preparing their staff to work together with farmers in developing technologies appropriate to ecological agriculture and using few external inputs. The training is designed to stimulate...
    Farmers-Training of Agricultural exten...

  13. Assessing Transitions to Sustainable Agricultural and Food Systems: A Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE)

    Abstract, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2020 December There is increasing interest in agroecology as a way to move toward more sustainable agriculture and food systems. However, the evidence of agroecology's contribution to sustainability remains fragmented because of heterogeneous...
    Agroecology Land Tenure Agricultural Research

  14. Natural Resource Management Plans with Participatory Rural Appraisal

    2015-03-03 An introduction and overview of participatory rural appraisal, including specific tools and techniques around mapping.
    Asia

  15. The Participatory Approach - Resources

    Asia

  16. Legumes and soil health – participatory action research

    2019-02-13 Session: Soil degradation and rapid change are faced across Africa, and require attention to both old and new technologies. Over two decades of action research with farmers in Malawi has shown that smallholder food production and nutrition can be improved through biological principles and...
    Soil Health Legumes East Africa

  17. Participatory Epidemiology - A Guide for Trainers

    African Union/Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources, Nairobi

  18. LEGS Participatory Techniques Toolkit

    2021-05-20 LEGS Participation Mini Module Suji Omeno In this Mini Module, LEGS provides key techniques to aid and facilitate community participation. Some of the techniques includeFocus Group Discussions,Key Informant Interviews,Proportional Piling, Simple Ranking,Pairwise Ranking,Matrix Scoring,Historical...
    Community Resources Citizen Participation Participatory Rese... LEGS

  19. Using Participatory Analysis for Community Action (PACA)

    Peace Corps Idea Book Although PACA: Using Participatory Analysis for CommunityAction was written for Peace Corps Volunteers, their counterparts, and staff, the gender-sensitive participatory approach can be used by any group or organization. In fact, though Peace Corps Volunteers are sometimes...

  20. Rapid rural appraisal, participatory rural appraisal and aquaculture

    This document is intedded for aquaculture development specialists, aquaculture project managers, and officials and specialists involved in the planning and management of aquaculture activities. It is intended to provide an introduction to Rapid Rual Appraisal and Participatory Rural Appraisal for...
    Rural Development Aquaculture-Manage...

  21. A Guide to Rapid Market Appraisal (RMA) for Agricultural Products

    This Guide to Rapid Market Analysis Methods is a product of the experiences and lessons learnt while implementing agro-enterprise projects in Latin America, Africa and S.E Asia. This manual is one of a series of agro-enterprise publications developed through a collaborative learning alliance...