Participatory Development of Demand-Driven Curriculum for Career-Ready E-Extension Services in Nigeria

This paper described and contextualized participatory development of demand-driven curriculum for career-ready e-extension services in Nigeria as introduced by the Sasakawa Africa Fund Extension Education. The stages were need assessment, stakeholders’ workshop validation among 124 stakeholders selected key informants relation to agricultural extension training, delivery, end users policy makers. grouped follows: community leaders makers; agencies / organisations institutions employers; farmers; input suppliers marketers agro-based traders other value actors; potential candidate groups. Stakeholder meetings held separately with different groups three times, then a combined meeting took place. aggregated major decisions/consensus subjected content analysis using ATLAS.ti. process included reading each agreed decision all participants, participants indicated their agreement or otherwise, which led either rejection acceptance decision. concludes that has enhanced identify areas training response needs. preferred more online than face-to-face training. perceived advantages reduced risk, time cost effectiveness while infrastructural human challenges could possibly hinder smooth running e extension.