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The New Extensionist: Implications and Opportunities for Change

Explore the role and impact of the "New" Extensionist in agricultural innovation systems, focusing on individuals, organizations, and systems. Learn how to navigate complex social systems and manage systemic change in service delivery.

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The New Extensionist: Implications and Opportunities for Change

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  1. The New Extensionist Implications for individuals, organisations and systemsHlami Ngwenya“Towards Enabling Policies for the New Extensionist”East Africa Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services Policy DialogueThursday, June 18, 2015

  2. We are change agents

  3. 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

  4. 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.

  5. ?? Who is this new extensionist? Can do it all !!!!

  6. Agricultural Innovation System is complex

  7. Human body is also a complex system

  8. A motor car is a system too

  9. A social system is even more complex

  10. The complexity of social system increase with Interdependency

  11. The ice-berg model

  12. 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

  13. The dynamics of interaction

  14. AEAS delivery system as an innovation • Three levels: • Demand side • Response to demand • Support of the response

  15. Learning platforms, networking, policy change, OD Training of facilitators within Institutions Multi-stakeholder platforms for service delivery Farmer organisational development

  16. Managing participation and harmonization of service delivery is very critical in managing systemic change

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