The New Extensionist Learning Kit

Introduction

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The New Extensionist Learning Kit is a learning resource for individual extension field staff, managers, and lecturers. It is based on the The 'New Extensionist' - Roles, Strategies, and Capacities to Strengthen Extension and Advisory Services, a GFRAS position paper that discusses new capacities for rural advisory services and extension to address the current challenges in agriculture and to contribute better to agricultural innovation. The kit focuses on functional skills and is available for self-directed, face-to-face, or blended learning.

The New Extensionist Learning Kit (NELK) contains several modules designed for self-directed, face-to-face, or blended learning and can be a useful tool for (not exclusively) individual extension field staff, managers, lecturers and non-governmental organisations, and other training institutions.

 

List of available learning modules

NELK New Extensionist Training Package

No.TitleNo.Title
Module 01 Introduction to the New Extentionist Module 07 Introduction to Facilitation for Development
Module 02 Overview of Extension Methods and Tools Module 08 Community Mobilization
Module 03 Agricultural Extension Programme Management    Module 09 Farmer Organizational Development
Module 04 Professional Ethics Module 10 The Role of Extension in Value Chains
Module 05 Adult Learning for Behavioural Change Module 11 Agricultural Entrepreneurship
Module 06 Basic Knowledge Management and Extension    

 

NELK Thematic

No.TitleNo.Title
Them. 01 Gender in Advisory Services Them. 05 Nutrition-Sensitive Extension
Them. 02 Risk Mitigation and Adaptation in Extension Them. 06 e-Extension
Them. 03 Developing Capacity for Evaluation of Rural Extension and RAS        Them. 07 Youth Mentoring
Them. 04 Policy Advocacy for Rural Advisory Services  Them. 08 Extension Support for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation

 

NELK Technical

No.TitleNo.Title
Tech. 01 Smallholder Horticulture Empowerment & Promotion (SHEP)             Tech. 02 Integrated Pest Management

 

Go To Modules

 

Language

  • Español
  • Français
  • English (UK)

How to start

1. Register on this website. If you have already registered on www.g-fras.org you can use this access data to log in here.

2. Log in using the form on the top right

3. Choose the module you would like to take and enroll to it.

 

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Copy Rights

The NELK is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. This means you can copy it, share it or adapt it as long as you attribute it to GFRAS, but you may not sell it. This is true for the NELK as a whole or for parts of it. 

The NELK is not menat to be a kit that is valid everywhere and does not need to be changed. The NELK is rather a framework of tools that follows the principles describet in The 'New Extensionist' and invites you to adapt it to your local context.

Partners

The FAO e-learning Academy, a valued partner of GFRAS, offers a diverse array of learning opportunities and multilingual e-learning courses tailored for professionals engaged in food and nutrition security, social and economic development, and sustainable management of natural resources. These courses serve to bolster the capacity of member countries in advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Complementing the offerings on the GFRAS platform, these resources enrich the skill sets of agricultural extensionists and rural advisory service providers worldwide, fostering greater effectiveness and impact in their vital roles.

Access them here.

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