Every country has developed, formulated, and decreed national policies related to rural advisory services. Find some examples here. If you are looking for a national policy from a specific country, please use the search function, selecting the category “National policies” and the tag for the country.
Policy influence and advocacy are increasingly regarded as a means of creating sustainable policy change in international development. It is often also seen as a difficult area to monitor and evaluate. Yet there is an increasingly rich strand of innovation in options to monitor, evaluate and learn from both the successes and failures of policy influence and advocacy interventions. This paper explores current trends in monitoring and evaluating policy influence and advocacy; discusses different theories of how policy influence happens; and presents a number of options to monitor and evaluate different aspects of advocacy interventions. Case studies describe how some organisations have used these options in practice to understand their impact and improve their advocacy strategies.
ODI Working Paper 395.
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- Author(s) Josephine Tsui, Simon Hearn, and John Young
- Year 2014
- Type of Content Conceptual (definitions and frameworks)
- Type of Document Research Papers and Studies
This paper analyzes the features of agricultural extension models and policy in 27 sub- Saharan Africa (SSA) countries. This is based on the premise that the discussion of extension policy in SSA countries cannot be isolated from the extension models that are applied in these countries. While the models are direct products of the type of policy that has been adopted, the policy dictates the models to be used in each country.
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- Author(s) Oladimeji Idowu Oladele
- Year 2011
- Type of Content Conceptual (definitions and frameworks)
- Type of Document Research Papers and Studies
This paper reviews the features of agricultural extension models and policy in selected sub- Saharan Africa countries. This is based on the premise that the discussion of extension policy in SSA countries can not be isolated from the extension models that are applied in these countries. While the models are direct products of the type of policy that has been adopted, the policy dictates the models to be used in each country.
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- Author(s) Oladimeji Idowu Oladele
- Year 2010
- Type of Content Case study, experience, example
- Type of Document Research Papers and Studies
Policy Brief on a bill for protecting and empowering farmers in Indonesia.
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- Author(s) WAMTI: Indonesian Farmer and Fisher Society Organization
- Year 2012
- Type of Content Conceptual (definitions and frameworks)
- Type of Document Brief
Linking knowledge to policy and action for food and livelihoods
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- Author(s) Charlie Pye-Smith,
- Year 2012
- Type of Content Conceptual (definitions and frameworks)
- Type of Document Position papers and reports
For those policy-makers who would like to refresh their knowledge of the concept of extension, this is a practical guide to provide need- and demand-based knowledge and skills to rural men, women and youth in a non-formal, participatory manner, with the objective of improving their quality of life. The function of extension may be applied to several subjects, both agricultural and non-agricultural, such as health; when it is applied to agriculture, it is called agricultural extension.
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- Author(s) M. Kalim Qamar
- Year 2005
- Type of Content Case study, experience, example
- Type of Document Research Papers and Studies
As part of SOW, identify and review at least three examples of existing agricultural extension policy documents from other countries in Africa and consult with experts who have been involved in preparing those documents. Although Bangladesh is not in Africa, its policy is selected for review because follow-up studies provide useful lessons learned and weaknesses of the policy which can be used to inform Liberia’s policy.
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- Author(s) Vickie Sigman
- Year 2012
- Type of Content Case study, experience, example
- Type of Document Presentation
- Country/Region Ghana
This presentation aims, as part of SOW, to identify and review at least three examples of existing agricultural extension policy documents from other countries in Africa and consult with experts who have been involved in preparing those documents.
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- Author(s) Vickie Sigman
- Year 2012
- Type of Content Case study, experience, example
- Type of Document Presentation
This is a presentation on the Agricultural Extension Policies in Nigeria and Ghana.
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- Author(s) Vickie Sigman
- Year 2012
- Type of Content Case study, experience, example
- Type of Document Research Papers and Studies
This Power Point Presentation gives an overview of the 2012 FAO report "The State of Food and Agriculture", which focuses on investment in agriculture for a better future.
The FAO publication, "The State of Food and Agriculture" carries a special report each year on a major theme in world agriculture, from the perspective of food insecurity and poverty.
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- Author(s) Keith Wiebe and Sarah Lowder
- Year 2012
- Type of Content Case study, experience, example
- Type of Document Position papers and reports
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This brief focuses on three questions:
- What are the benefits of developing a policy framework for agricultural and rural extension systems?’
- What are the role and priorities of extension systems and how should they be developed?
- What support measures should be put in place to ensure that extension is delivered effectively in the region?
SPC Policy Brief #12
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- Author(s) Secretariat of the Pacific Community SP
- Year 2010
- Type of Content Conceptual (definitions and frameworks)
- Type of Document Brief
This paper draws together experiences from across Asia to explore extension policy and the extension policy process. The paper argues that extension policy needs to tackle two major sets of issues. The first concerns the content in view of the broader role extension need to play in the present context of agriculture systems. The second issue concerns the nature of the policy process itself. Instead of prescribing reforms, the policy process should ideally facilitate continuous incremental change through experimentation, reflection and learning. Four cases are presented to illustrate the challenges involved in developing and implementing extension policy. The experiences indicate that reform processes only informed by prescriptions generated centrally or from outside are bound to fail. The message for extension policy in Asia is that the process of reform must be lead from within.
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- Author(s) Rasheed Sulaiman V. and Andy Hall
- Year 2005
- Type of Content Case study, experience, example
- Type of Document Research Papers and Studies
Presentation held at the Future Agricultures Consortium, Institue of Development Studies from 6-7 December 2012.
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- Author(s) John Thomson
- Year 2012
- Type of Content Case study, experience, example
- Type of Document Presentation
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- Author(s) Fernando Landini
- Year 2014
- Type of Content Conceptual (definitions and frameworks)
- Type of Document Presentation