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The National Agriculture and Livestock Extension Programme (NALEP)

Objective/Key Activities

The project purpose is stated as: A Pluralistic, efficient, effective and demand driven extension service promoted and functional.

Project focus

The programme has 5 key areas of focus as follows:

  1. Institutional setting
  2. Extension approaches
  3. Technical areas
  4. Collaboration and extension facilitating factors
  5. Cross-cutting issues

Key Outputs

  1. Effective institutional set-up for programme coordination and management development by MoLFD and MoARD and used in NALEP
  2. Policy and legal framework for decentralized extension services supported
  3. Extension service staff mobility and office infrastructure improved
  4. Capacity building at all levels with emphasis at the divisional enhanced
  5. Focal area extension approach improved and appropriate methodologies adapted, tested, evaluated and replicated
  6. Methodologies for targeting the rural resource poor and vulnerable groups that will ensure inclusion of men and women, children, youth, HIV/AIDS affected, disabled and elderly tested, used and successful ones replicated
  7. Appropriate technical packages in agriculture and livestock, both gender positive and compassionate technologies to address the needs and demand of various categories of farmers including the poor, elderly, disabled, promoted?
  8. Collaboration with private sector and other service providers strengthened?
  9. Modalities for improved research-extension-farmer interaction reviewed and strengthened
  10. Savings, credit, value addition and marketing improved
  11. Gender manstreamed
  12. HIV/AIDS issues mainstreamed
  13. Drug and alcohol abuse issues mainstreamed
  14. Advocacy, rights and governance issues mainstreamed
  15. Environmental issues mainstreamed

NALEP management appointed a team that conducted an assessment using questionnaire that had been professionally designed to elicit both formal and participatory interviews. Sample districts were picked form the five participating provinces. The results were discussed and analysed using statistical software.For more see the NALEP  Internal impact assesment report.

The Sida-supported Kenya National Agriculture and Livestock Extension Programme (NALEP) Phase I started in July 2000. After the division of the Ministry, NALEP has been implemented through the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development.This impact assessment was commissioned by Sida, the objective being to assess the impact of the programme of the Phase I activities as a preparation for extending the programme into Phase II. The assessment field work, mainly focused on qualitative case studies, was undertaken in February and March 2006 in four Provinces: Central, Nyanza, Eastern and Western Province.More on this...

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For more detailed information about the Programme, contact:
Programme Co-ordinator
Hill Plaza Building , 
6th Floor Room 606
P. O. Box 3002800100 
Nairobi
Tel. +254 20 2714867
Mobile : +254 736 911 212 
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