Demands, responsibility, and influence in Malawi's participatory agricultural extension services

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3887266
AutoresCristina Álvarez-Mingote (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, autor de correspondencia), Paul E Mcnamara (0000-0001-7692-4494)
Año2018
Volumen28
Número1
Páginas81-94
Fecha de publicación2018-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDevelopment in Practice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0961-4524 • E-ISSN: 1364-9213
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09614524.2018.1397104
OpenAlexW2784177726
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas17

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

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