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4 Capacity Building and Training
4 Capacity Building and Training
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SKILLS Participants agreed that the essential skill that extension personnel need is technical knowledge of agriculture -- they need to be good agriculturalists. In addition, participants identified a range of other skills and attributes that extension agents need to do their jobs well, including cross-culture communication, project management, and knowledge of the local community.
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The acquisition of skills that will enable agents to address problems in both agriculture and peacebuilding requires training, which, among other things, should enable agents to understand how their technical work helps resolve conflict. Subgroup members emphasized the importance of experiential training, so that extension personnel are applying useful skills even as they are learning them.
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TABLE 4-1 The Capabilities Needed of Local Extension Agents and Donor Organizations Skills and Attributes Factors Contributing to Legitimacy Process-Related Factors Extension Agents Donors Extension Agents Donors Extension Agents Donors Facilitation Analytic skills Commitment Knowledge of Involvement of Donor coordination Mediation/ local conflict stakeholders Ability to teach/ Peacebuilding Support for Negotiation management train using many knowledge Identification of knowledge building methodology Brokering media champions (local Ability to access Identification of Support for engagement) Project management Mentoring relevant knowledge champions links to relevant Leadership Nonpartisanship information Partnering Communication/ Good Awareness of what Patience Cross-cultural agriculturalists partisanship is Awareness of impact communication on sustainability Commitment Organizational skills Analytic skills Training-the-trainer skills Methodological skills Experience-based (field)
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There are numerous components to the establishment of an agent's legitimacy; participants cited technical knowledge, credible and trusted local partners, motivation, and vision. To improve agricultural yields in a particular region, extension personnel need technical knowledge of what will work in that region.
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Because problems change over time, these statements should change as well to reflect new circumstances and a better understanding of a problem. Conflict situations can be extremely complex, and the information needed to assess a situation scarce, requiring special expertise and access to information to enable effective conflict analysis.
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Furthermore, unless the efforts of individual agents are scalable, outcomes are limited to what single extension agents can do in their local communities. Finally, for extension services to be sustainable, it is essential both that agents remain current in agricultural knowledge and that senior agents train and mentor their subordinates.
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