TY - JOUR
T1 - Demands, responsibility, and influence in Malawi’s participatory agricultural extension services
AU - Álvarez-Mingote, Cristina
AU - McNamara, Paul E.
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for support. This work was supported by the USAID through the Feed the Future Malawi Strengthening Agricultural and Nutrition Extension Services Activity (SANE) under grant No. AID-612-LA-15-00003 programme at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for support. This work was supported by the USAID through the Feed the Future Malawi Strengthening Agricultural and Nutrition Extension Services Activity (SANE) under grant No. AID-612-LA-15-00003 programme at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. We thank all the members of the SANE team, including Marie Cadrin, Clodina Chowa, Austen Moore, Grace Mzumara, Stacia Nordin, and Lonester Sibande; the respondents and participants in the survey; and Amanda Ang for useful GIS research assistance. This research was approved by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Institutional Review Board (Protocol Number 17064) in the United States and by the National Commission for Research on Social Sciences and Humanities (Protocol Number P08/16/133) in Malawi.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2018/1/2
Y1 - 2018/1/2
N2 - Participatory governance offers the potential to deliver responsive and accountable services. This article tests this expectation by looking at how members of participatory extension platforms in Malawi understand the meaning of “demand-driven” services, and allocate responsibility and influence in service provision. Results show that most respondents agree on bottom-up extension services that respond to expressed farmers’ needs (86% of respondents), and assign responsibility and influence widely across state and non-state actors. While these findings suggest that these participatory mechanisms can promote responsiveness to farmers’ needs and accountability, they also point toward different governance challenges in extension services.
AB - Participatory governance offers the potential to deliver responsive and accountable services. This article tests this expectation by looking at how members of participatory extension platforms in Malawi understand the meaning of “demand-driven” services, and allocate responsibility and influence in service provision. Results show that most respondents agree on bottom-up extension services that respond to expressed farmers’ needs (86% of respondents), and assign responsibility and influence widely across state and non-state actors. While these findings suggest that these participatory mechanisms can promote responsiveness to farmers’ needs and accountability, they also point toward different governance challenges in extension services.
KW - Aid–Accountability
KW - Civil society–Participation
KW - Environment (built and natural)–Agriculture
KW - NGOs
KW - Sub-Saharan Africa
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U2 - 10.1080/09614524.2018.1397104
DO - 10.1080/09614524.2018.1397104
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85041179991
SN - 0961-4524
VL - 28
SP - 81
EP - 94
JO - Development in Practice
JF - Development in Practice
IS - 1
ER -