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Steps in developing a forestry extension program. |
Identify the needs. Provide sufficient accurate information. Guide people tactfully. Properly balance the commitment of people and the external assistance. |
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- more traditional. Also called “Blueprint approach”. |
TOP-DOWN APPROACH |
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Disadvantages of top down approach |
Limited in scope.It is impossible for the government staff to reach every village effectively.Leave team members demoralized and demotivated as they typically have very little control over what they are expected to do and how they are expected to do it.Extension workers job begins and ends with human beings.
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Beneficiaries influence the direction and execution of a development project. They are included in the whole process of project management. |
BOTTOM-UP APPROACH |
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Objectives are still determined by organizational leadership, but the team members who will be doing the work are asked to provide input as to how the project goals will be met. |
BOTTOM-UP APPROACH |
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Initial project phases was quite time consuming since project leader need to incorporate input from many stakeholders into the project plan.
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Disadvantage BOTTOM-UP APPROACH |
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The process of getting people involved in the decision-making process |
PARTICIPATORY APPROACH |
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Intended beneficiaries of development are afforded the opportunity to a) share what they have, b) express what they feel, and c) articulate what they want. |
PARTICIPATORY APPROACH |
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is essential where the direct beneficiaries take part in the whole process of project management. People oriented approach elicits the ability of the community to solve their own problems rather than outsider imposing solutions to their problems. |
Participatory development |
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Methods of Forestry Extension |
1. Individual contacts 2. Group contacts 3. Mass contacts |
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Individual contacts types: |
Farm and home visit Technical assistance or consultation Information discussion |
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interpersonal contact between the extension worker and his client in the farmer's home or farm. |
Farm and home visit |
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an information seeking client receives advise from a professionally competent extension agent. |
Technical assistance or consultation |
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an informal interpersonal contact between the extension agent and the client outside the farm or home. |
Information discussion |
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Group contacts types |
Method demonstration Result demonstration Farmers class Field Trips |
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presentation of different procedures in accomplishing a given activity. |
Method demonstration |
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designed to show by example the practical application of an established practice based on the results of research. |
Result demonstration |
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an organized out of school classes designed to offer alternative solutions to problems identified by farmers. |
Farmers class |
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a planned trip usually outside the community for farmers to see and witness a certain improved practice or successful project. |
Field trips |
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Mass contacts types |
Broadcast Audio-visual |
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bulletins, brochures, leaflets, circulars, newsletters, newspapers or magazines. |
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radio or television programs. |
Broadcast |
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movies, slide presentation, exhibits, posters, charts, graphs and other three-dimensional media like models, dioramas, etc. |
Audio-visual |
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For successful implementation, an extension program requires |
Goals Targetgroups Message Methods Organization |
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Importance of Extension Education |
research results reaches to farmers and farmers problems to research stations. bridges the gap Devises educational programs to solve those problems Recognizes and utilizes indigenous knowledge to |
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A group of people, a form of social organization, living in a geographical area and have common interest for the purpose of making living |
Community |
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An integrated activity initiated and carried out by the local community as units of action with or without outside assistance for the betterment of standard of living. |
Community Development |
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A process of change from traditional to progressive ways of living |
Community Development |
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It is a tool for community development and a means where the community development ends. |
Extension Education |
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Essential Elements of Community Development (CD) Guiding principles of CD (as summarized United Nations Economic and Social Council) |
Expressed the needs of people;Integrated approach;Change the attitudes; Better participation of people;Local leadership;Participation of youth and women;Assistance for self-help projects for communities;Full use of local organization; andEconomic and local progress at local level necessitates parallel development on wider national scale. |
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Starts from a theoretical or conceptual framework and leads to practical or actual field work. |
Formal education |
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In this type of education there is fixed or pre-decided curriculum. |
Formal education |
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Audience is homogeneous with common goals. |
Formal education |
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Since rural people lack adequate knowledge, they should be taught and instructed how to plant and manage trees. |
Formal education |
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Practical, field and farmer's problem-oriented, thus it starts from a practical and develops into a theoretical or basic understanding. |
Extension Education |
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There is no fixed curriculum. it has also possible flexibilities depending on the learners. |
Extension Education |
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Rural people are clearly aware of the importance of trees and shrubs in the local environment. |
Extension Education |
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The audience is heterogeneous and have diversified goals. |
Extension Education |
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Teaching is vertical and curriculum centered. |
Formal education |
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Strict adherence to institutional norms and no free choice for the learners. |
Formal education |
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Specialized nature, class-oriented, subject centered and degree-oriented |
Formal education |
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Learners are taught directly by the teachers |
Formal education |
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Teaching is horizontal and mostly need based and problem oriented. |
Extension Education |
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Freedom and choice of subject matter left to the learners. |
Extension Education |
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Informal, with some elements of formal education in class teaching, but not degree oriented. |
Extension Education |
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Local teachers are used for training and dissemination of knowledge. |
Extension Education |
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In community-based forest management programs, a community encompasses the following descriptions: |
Group of peopleTerritoryLength of stay |
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Types of Communities |
Rural Communities Urban communities Suburban communities Rurban communities |
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The Basic Characteristics of Rural Communities |
Relatively small populationHomogenousDominant activityRelationship Group Unity |
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Basic Characteristics of Urban Community |
Population density is high.Secondary type of relationship (impersonal and formal).Diverse specialization.Anonymity |
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Occupations of people |
non-farming, non-mining, non-fishing. |
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This community sometimes falls under urban or metropolitan. This is an outlaying area of the city. |
Suburban Community |
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Describes smaller towns that are rural geographically but urban socially. It’s semi-rural, semi-urban thus, “rurban”. Rurban towns are populated by urban escapes seeking a small-town atmosphere. They are usually situated near the city, somewhere in that nebulous rural-urban fringe. |
Rurban Community |