Tools and Best Practices - ASK ME
A = Audience and Needs
Start with the people and their problems.
Who are you trying to help? What matters to them? What are they doing now? What constrains improvement? What changes are both beneficial and realistic?
A good assessment identifies not simply what could be improved, but where people have the need, interest, and opportunity to act.
1. Understand the situation
Needs & Opportunity Analysis | Secondary Data | Value Chain | Crop Calendar
2. Understand your audience
Audience Analysis | Gender | Surveys | Farmer Focus Groups
3. Diagnose the problems and opportunities
Field Patterns | Diagnostic Tools & Knowledge Banks
4. Identify partners and pathways for action
Choose Partners | Workgroups | SWOC Analysis
Who are you trying to help? What matters to them? What are they doing now? What constrains improvement? What changes are both beneficial and realistic?
A good assessment identifies not simply what could be improved, but where people have the need, interest, and opportunity to act.
1. Understand the situation
Needs & Opportunity Analysis | Secondary Data | Value Chain | Crop Calendar
2. Understand your audience
Audience Analysis | Gender | Surveys | Farmer Focus Groups
3. Diagnose the problems and opportunities
Field Patterns | Diagnostic Tools & Knowledge Banks
4. Identify partners and pathways for action
Choose Partners | Workgroups | SWOC Analysis
1. Understand the situation
What is happening now, what matters, and where are the opportunities?
2. Understand your audience
Who are you trying to reach, what matters to them, and what affects their decisions?
3. Diagnose problems and opportunities
What is actually constraining performance, and what could realistically be improved?
4. Identify partners and pathways for action
Who can help, who is trusted, and how can solutions reach the audience?
Useful Skills to Engage People
What is happening now, what matters, and where are the opportunities?
- Needs and Opportunity Analysis
Fact Sheet or Manual with work Sheets (IRRI) - Assess Needs Fact Sheet
- Analyze secondary data Fact Sheet ; Activity Sheet
- Analyze the Value Chain Fact and Activity Sheet
- Use a crop calendar to identify needs Fact Sheet
- Choose your field site Fact Sheet ; Activity Sheet
- Do a SWOC Analysis Fact Sheet
2. Understand your audience
Who are you trying to reach, what matters to them, and what affects their decisions?
- Analyze your Audience Fact Sheet
- Consider Gender What you can do | Why consider Gender
- Use a Farmer focal group Fact Sheet
- Design your field questionnaire Fact Sheet
- Example Crop survey sheet Field Sheet
3. Diagnose problems and opportunities
What is actually constraining performance, and what could realistically be improved?
- Interpreting field patterns Fact Sheet
- Knowledge Banks
- Field Diagnostic tools | Crops | Livestock
4. Identify partners and pathways for action
Who can help, who is trusted, and how can solutions reach the audience?
- Choose good partners Fact sheet
- Form a workgroup Fact Sheet
- Analyze your Audience Fact Sheet
- Build Trust Fact sheet
Useful Skills to Engage People
- Facilitate Fact sheet
- Build Trust Fact sheet
- Run better Meetings Fact sheet
- Build Consensus Fact sheet
- Resolve Conflict Fact sheet
- Work better with a Translator Info Sheet
