The Rise and Fall of Training and Visit Extension : An Asian Mini-drama with an African Epilogue
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World Bank, Washington, DC
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The paper reviews the origins and evolution of the Training and Visit (T&V) extension system, which was promoted by the World Bank in 1975-98 in over 50 developing countries. The discussion seeks to clarify the context within which the approach was implemented, and to analyze the causes for its lack of sustainability and its ultimate abandonment. The paper identifies some of the challenges faced by the T&V approach as being typical of a large public extension system, where issues of scale, interaction with the agricultural research systems, inability to attribute benefits, weak accountability, and lack of political support tend to lead to incentive problems among staff and managers of extension, and limited budgetary resources. The different incentives and outlook of domestic stakeholders and external donor agencies are also reviewed. The main cause of the T&V system's disappearance is attributed to the incompatibility of its high recurrent costs with the limited budgets available domestically, leading to fiscal unsustainability. The paper concludes with some lessons that apply to donor-driven public extension initiatives, and more generally to rural development fads. The role of timely, independent, and rigorous evaluative studies is specifically highlighted.
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ACCOUNTABILITY, AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION, AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICES, AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION, AGRICULTURAL INFORMATION SERVICES, AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SYSTEMS, AGRICULTURE, BI, BUREAUCRACIES, CLIENT COUNTRIES, COUNTRIES, CREDIT POLICIES, CROPS, CULTURAL CHANGE, ECONOMICS, EQUIPMENT, EXTENSION, EXTENSION AGENTS, EXTENSION SERVICES, FARM PRODUCTIVITY, FARM RESEARCH, FARMER, FARMER PARTICIPATION, FARMERS, FARMING SYSTEMS, FOOD PRODUCTION, HOUSING, ILLITERACY, INFORMATION DISSEMINATION, INNOVATIONS, INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT, IRRIGATION, LIVESTOCK, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, MARKETING, MEDIA, NATIONAL RESEARCH SYSTEMS, NGOS, NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS, NUTRITION, POOR, POOR PEOPLE, PROGRAMS, QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENTS, RESEARCH CENTERS, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, SCIENTISTS, SMALLHOLDER FARMERS, TRAINING ACTIVITIES, TRANSPORT, VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT, VILLAGE LEVEL