Essential Competencies of Frontline Agricultural Extension Professionals
Suvedi, Murari
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EmailProcess skills and core competencies are basic sets of knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that frontline extension professionals require to perform their tasks well and respond to contingencies, change, and the unexpected. A team of extension researchers led by Dr. Suvedi conducted three comprehensive studies in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Findings from these studies revealed a significant gap between existing and required skills of the frontline extension professionals on the following essential competencies:
Program planning,
Program implementation,
Communication,
Information and communication technologies,
Program evaluation,
Personal and professional development,
Diversity and gender,
Extension soft skills,
Agribusiness, marketing, and value chain development; and
Climate change mitigation and extension.
This resource book is developed primarily to serve as a training resource on above competencies for the frontline extension professionals, extension faculty, research scholars, and graduate students to address the needs of demand-driven, pluralistic, participatory, and decentralized extension services:
