The New Extensionist Implications for individuals, organisations and systems Hlami Ngwenya “Towards Enabling Policies for the New Extensionist” East Africa Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services Policy Dialogue Thursday, June 18, 2015

We are change agents

As a change agent “If you do not manage change, change will manage you” Anon “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” Barack Obama “Be the change that you want to see in the world” Mahatma Ghandi “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw

What IS the “New” Extensionist? Global view of extension clearly articulating and reinventing its expanded role within agricultural innovation systems. View goes beyond strengthening individual skills to look at organisations and systems and their capacities. Extension include actors from public, private, civil society who support rural dwellers in many ways.

?? Who is this new extensionist? Can do it all !!!!

Agricultural Innovation System is complex

Human body is also a complex system

A motor car is a system too

A social system is even more complex

The complexity of social system increase with Interdependency

The ice-berg model

What is an ice-berg? About 10% of the ice-berg is above the sea level About 90% of the ice-berg is buried under the sea level

The dynamics of interaction

AEAS delivery system as an innovation Three levels: Demand side Response to demand Support of the response

Farmer organisational development Learning platforms, networking, policy change, OD Training of facilitators within Institutions Multi-stakeholder platforms for service delivery Farmer organisational development

Managing participation and harmonization of service delivery is very critical in managing systemic change