Development and Validation of the International Extension Network Advocacy Capacity Scale

Extension is sometimes viewed globally as less important than academic research and innovation, even though these networks are crucial to agricultural development. Using Lewin’s (1947) organizational change theory a conceptual background, an instrument measure advocacy capacity within international extension was developed. The resulting scale analyzed for content validity, response process internal structure consequential validity. An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) performed on the proposed scale. underlying of found load onto five factors. extracted factors were labelled: 1) network support advocacy, 2) integration 3) influence in 4) visibility 5) performance. overall International Network Advocacy Capacity (IENAC) scale, associated subscales all have acceptable levels