Extension planning Archives - Extension Practice

Topic: Extension planning

published - 8 October 2019
By Gavin Beever

The Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Improvement (MERI) Framework

MERI is a process designed to look at a project or programs: Effectiveness, Impact, Appropriateness, Efficiency and Legacy. Assessing program performance and any change over time, against short, medium or long term desired outcomes, is an objective of the MERI framework.
The approach supports adaptive management over the life of a …
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Continuous improvement, Evaluation, Extension planning, MERI, Monitoring

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published - 16 January 2019
By Gavin Beever

Quality Management Principles and Extension

A key focus of Quality Management principles is to meet customer needs and aim at exceeding their expectations. They can be used as a guide in extension project planning. Particularly for projects which have a focus on improved performance or maintaining performance standards.
Sustained success is achieved when an extension organisation …
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Extension planning, Quality Management Principles

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published - 24 December 2018
By Gavin Beever

Goal Setting

Nearly all forms of extension involve either aiming to achieve, or the setting of goals. The methods discussed in this post, will help ensure your setting or reviewing of goals is well considered and will best meet the needs of the stakeholders involved.
A key benefit of setting goals, is to …
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Extension planning, Goal setting, Strategic planning

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published - 29 November 2018
By Gavin Beever

Using HACCP Principles in Extension

Looking to identify and manage risks in your extension programs and projects? The Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) principles can be a great help in that regard.
The HACCP principles have been developed and used in the food industry to identify and manage the hazards and reduce the risks …
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Critical control points, Extension planning, HACCP, Monitoring, Risk management

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published - 31 October 2018

A Useful Source of Guides and Resources for Extension Professionals

An excellent range of extension guides and resources have been developed and housed as a section on Extension within the Knowledge hub of Beef and Lamb New Zealand. Supported by the Red Meat Profit Partnership, they are a great collection of very practical and useful resources.
They provide Extension Best Practice …
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Evaluation, Extension planning, Professional development, Training

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published - 28 September 2018
By Gavin Beever

Online Tools for Helping in Extension Project Management

Project management in extension often involves a team of people working together to achieve extension goals. There are some great online tools that can assist with communication, extension planning, document sharing, monitoring, review and archiving amongst team members.
Here is an overview of three key ones:

This is a free service provided …
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Collaboration, Communication, Extension planning, Online tools, Storing

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published - 30 July 2018
By Gavin Beever

Diffusion of Innovations Theory: Case Studies and Discussion

The Diffusion of Innovations theory was the leading theory in agricultural extension post World War II until the 1970s and there is still considerable interest in it today in agricultural extension, as these case studies demonstrate. It is particularly relevant when extension is concerned with adoption of a particular technology …
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Diffusion of Innovation, Extension planning, Extension Principles

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published - 27 April 2018
By Gavin Beever

Program Logic for Extension Project Planning

This model can be used to help plan an extension program and provide the basis for evaluating it. Using the model, the relationships between the desired outcomes and the activities and inputs required to achieve them, can be worked out and illustrated in a Program Logic graphic.
It can be used …
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Extension planning, Program Logic

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published - 13 February 2018
By Gavin Beever

Design Thinking and Innovation

Design thinking is a five step method for innovating to solve complex (“wicked”) problems and is being used successfully in agricultural extension. It approaches challenges by understanding the needs of users and then developing insights to meet those needs. It proposes that only by contact, observation and empathy with end …
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Design thinking, Extension planning

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published - 1 May 2017
By Gavin Beever

Pareto’s Law

It is useful for Extension Professionals to consider Pareto’s Principle when planning and implementing extensions projects. Pareto’s Principle is often simplified to the 80/20 observation. It can be used to prioritise actions that will have the greatest effect.
Knowing that equal amounts of effort or inputs will not generate the same …
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80/20 Rule, Extension planning, Pareto's Law, Prioritise actions

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