Precepts for Extension in a Rural Context - Based on the perspective of 15 years of experience with 'contact farmers' in Nepal (LBL - SKAT - SDC, 1995, 94 p.)

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Impressum

1. Introduction

2. Brief outline of the Tuki system

3. The context of development cooperation in Nepal in the mid-70s

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3.1 Background and conditions

3.2 The project area

3.3 The Integrated Hill Development Project (IHDP)

3.4 Extension approaches in Nepal

4. Historical perspectives of the Tuki system

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4.1 Tukis as bringers of light into the darkness, initial phase 1977-80

4.2 Tukis as project field staff, 1980-85

4.3 Towards independence, 1985-86

4.4 Official state recognition, 1986-88

4.5 Tukis help themselves, 1988-90

5. Experiences with the Tuki approach

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5.1 Challenge of broad impact

5.2 Challenge of self-organised village base

5.3 Challenge of integration

5.4 Dealing with the flow of information

5.5 Dealing with role understanding

5.6 Dealing with motivation

5.7 Dealing with commercialisable inputs (improved seed, credits, etc.)

5.8 Dealing with training

5.9 The need for ''conceptual cohesion'' between goals and actual activities

6. Some extension precepts

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6.1 Four conceptual areas

6.2 Broad impact - but how?

6.3 Training of skills instead of ''help toward self-help''

6.4 Handing over - to whom?

6.5 Incorporate or terminate new extension structures?

6.6 Remuneration instead of ''compensation'' for extension work

6.7 ''Sustainability'' in extension systems = reconstructibility

6.8 Organise farmers?

6.9 From technology transfer programmes, to grass roots-oriented programmes, and on to programme-supported grass roots work

6.10 Technical knowledge + methodological knowhow + motivation + role understanding = effective extension worker

Annexes - Information sources, Interview partners

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