the new extensionist implications for individuals, organisations and systems
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The New Extensionist Implications for individuals, organisations and systems
Hlami Ngwenya
“Towards Enabling Policies for the New Extensionist”East Africa Agricultural Extension and Advisory
Services Policy DialogueThursday, June 18, 2015
We are change agents
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As a change agent“If you do not manage change, change will manage you”
Anon
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
Barack Obama
“Be the change that you want to see in the world”
Mahatma Ghandi
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw
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What IS the “New” Extensionist?• Global view of extension clearly articulating and
reinventing its expanded role within agricultural innovation systems.
• View goes beyond strengthening individual skills to look at organisations and systems and their capacities.
• Extension include actors from public, private, civil society who support rural dwellers in many ways.
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?? Who is this new extensionist?
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Can do it all !!!!
Agricultural Innovation System
is complex
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Human body is also a complex system
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A motor car is a system too
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A social system is even more complex
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The complexity of social system increase with
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Interdependency
The ice-berg model
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What is an ice-berg?
About 10% of the ice-berg is above the sea level
About 90% of the ice-berg is buried under the sea level
The dynamics of interaction
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AEAS delivery system as an innovation
Three levels:
• Demand side • Response to demand • Support of the response
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Learning platforms, networking, policy
change, OD
Multi-stakeholder platforms for
service delivery
Farmer organisational development
Training of facilitators within
Institutions
Managing participation and harmonization of
service delivery is very critical in managing
systemic change
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