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MEAS Support for WLI Work
Sandra L. RussoUniversity of Florida
WLI Annual Planning Meeting11-13 November 2014
What is MEAS?
• MEAS = Managing Extension and Advisory Services >>>> focus on extension
• USAID funded cooperative agreement (until 2017)
• University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) is the leader.
• University of Florida and University of California-Davis are partners
MEAS and WLI
• UF has three awards in MENA:– With Samia Akroush and NCARE• MEAS and MEPI, working with women’s groups in the
badia
– With Samia Akroush and NCARE• Fertigation adoption studies in the Jordan Valley,
working with researchers, extension and farmers
– With Beza Dessalegn, WLI and ICARDA• WLI adoption studies in WLI countries, working with
researchers, extension and farmers
Focus initially on extension training and peer-to-peer training with women’s coops in the badia of Jordan
• Low levels of education and literacy among rural women
• Inability to participate in training with men
• Inability to work with male extension agents
• May need different types of information and skills training
NCARE-UF-MEAS training with women’s coops
Focus now on linking research and extension along impact pathways
Assessing Researchers’ and Extension Agents’ Perceptions, and Farmers’ Willingness to Adopt WLI
Proven Technologies
ObjectiveImprove technology dissemination strategies
and approaches that promote adoption of proven water and land management
technologies by identifying researcher, extension, and farmer-based perceptions and
constraints.
Timeline
• Surveys and interviews through December• Data analysis – Jan-March 2015• Mid-term report – March 2015• Workshop – May or June 2015• Final report – August 2015
New MEAS award!
• Over $7 million from 2014-2018• UIUC, UF, UC-D and Cultural Practice (private
company)• Focus on gender, nutrition and extension• Initial focus on FtF countries but….
InGeNAES – Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services
INGENAES Theory of change
Synergies
• MEAS + WLI• INGENAES + MEAS + WLI • CCAFS + MEAS • CCAFS + WLI + MEAS + INGENAES
CCAFS CRPSenegal, Kenya, India, Nepal
Gender & climate/weather information services• Identifying the end users• Farmers can understand
probabilities, forecasts & technical information
• Researchers need to know who grows what crops & manages what livestock?
• Factor in country & cultural differences
• Don’t reinvent, use communication technologies that work for specific end users
Models, ICTs, apps….????
Participatory decision-making approaches
• Work with NARES, NMET, extension agents and farmers “How can we improve equitable delivery of climate and other technical services?”
• Outcomes:– Encourage multi-
directional sharing of information
– Better understand gendered constraints to accessing information
– Identify entry points in communities and institutions for improved equity in use of technical information
Linkages and Synergies
• WLI and MEAS projects can achieve synergies by linking previous work with upcoming activities.
• Good practices from CCAFS activities can inform approaches for WLI.
• Other development partners can be brought in. • The results of the WLI adoption studies could be
fed into INGENAES to support additional work, if the country teams are interested…..