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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.

- more traditional. Also called “Blueprint approach”.

TOP-DOWN APPROACH

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.


Beneficiaries influence the direction and execution of a development project. They are included in the whole process of project management.

BOTTOM-UP APPROACH

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

Initial project phases was quite time consuming since project leader need to incorporate input from many stakeholders into the project plan.


Disadvantage BOTTOM-UP APPROACH

The process of getting people involved in the decision-making process

PARTICIPATORY APPROACH

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

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

Methods of Forestry Extension

1. Individual contacts


2. Group contacts


3. Mass contacts

Individual contacts types:

Farm and home visit



Technical assistance or consultation




Information discussion

interpersonal contact between the extension worker and his client in the farmer's home or farm.

Farm and home visit

an information seeking client receives advise from a professionally competent extension agent.

Technical assistance or consultation

an informal interpersonal contact between the extension agent and the client outside the farm or home.

Information discussion

Group contacts types

Method demonstration


Result demonstration


Farmers class


Field Trips

presentation of different procedures in accomplishing a given activity.

Method demonstration

designed to show by example the practical application of an established practice based on the results of research.

Result demonstration

an organized out of school classes designed to offer alternative solutions to problems identified by farmers.

Farmers class

a planned trip usually outside the community for farmers to see and witness a certain improved practice or successful project.

Field trips

Mass contacts types

Print


Broadcast


Audio-visual


bulletins, brochures, leaflets, circulars, newsletters, newspapers or magazines.

Print

radio or television programs.

Broadcast

movies, slide presentation, exhibits, posters, charts, graphs and other three-dimensional media like models, dioramas, etc.

Audio-visual

For successful implementation, an extension program requires

Goals


Targetgroups


Message


Methods


Organization

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

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

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

A process of change from traditional to progressive ways of living

Community Development

It is a tool for community development and a means where the community development ends.


Extension Education

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.


Starts from a theoretical or conceptual framework and leads to practical or actual field work.


Formal education

In this type of education there is fixed or pre-decided curriculum.

Formal education

Audience is homogeneous with common goals.

Formal education

Since rural people lack adequate knowledge, they should be taught and instructed how to plant and manage trees.

Formal education

Practical, field and farmer's problem-oriented, thus it starts from a practical and develops into a theoretical or basic understanding.

Extension Education

There is no fixed curriculum. it has also possible flexibilities depending on the learners.

Extension Education

Rural people are clearly aware of the importance of trees and shrubs in the local environment.

Extension Education

The audience is heterogeneous and have diversified goals.

Extension Education

Teaching is vertical and curriculum centered.

Formal education

Strict adherence to institutional norms and no free choice for the learners.

Formal education

Specialized nature, class-oriented, subject centered and degree-oriented

Formal education

Learners are taught directly by the teachers

Formal education

Teaching is horizontal and mostly need based and problem oriented.

Extension Education

Freedom and choice of subject matter left to the learners.

Extension Education

Informal, with some elements of formal education in class teaching, but not degree oriented.

Extension Education

Local teachers are used for training and dissemination of knowledge.

Extension Education

In community-based forest management programs, a community encompasses the following descriptions:

Group of peopleTerritoryLength of stay

Types of Communities

Rural Communities


Urban communities


Suburban communities


Rurban communities

The Basic Characteristics of Rural Communities

Relatively small populationHomogenousDominant activityRelationship Group Unity


Basic Characteristics of Urban Community

Population density is high.Secondary type of relationship (impersonal and formal).Diverse specialization.Anonymity

Occupations of people

non-farming,


non-mining,


non-fishing.

This community sometimes falls under urban or metropolitan. This is an outlaying area of the city.

Suburban Community

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