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Tools and Best Practices - ASK ME

​ A = Audience and Needs

Start with your Audience. Who are they and what do they need and want?

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Tips for designing a Needs Assessment
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• Do a Needs and opportunity Analysis 
  Fact Sheet or Manual with work Sheets (IRRI)
• Assess Needs Fact Sheet
• Analyze the Value chain Fact and Activity Sheet
• Design your field questionnaire Fact Sheet
• Example Crop survey sheet Field Sheet
• ​Use a crop calendar to identify needs Fact Sheet
• Analyze secondary data Fact Sheet ; Activity Sheet
• Choose your field site Fact Sheet ; Activity Sheet
• ​Form a workgroup Fact Sheet
• Do a SWOC Analysis Fact Sheet

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Resources for field diagnostics 
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• Interpreting field patterns Fact sheet
• Knowledge Banks and Field Diagnostic tools

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Tips for identifying your audience and partners​
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• Analyse your Audience Fact sheet
• Consider Gender What you can do | Why consider Gender
• Choose good partners Fact sheet
• Use a Farmer focal group Fact Sheet​

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Tips for working with Groups 
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• Build Consensus Fact sheet
• Build Trust Fact sheet
• Resolve Conflict Fact sheet
• Use a Farmer focal group Fact Sheet
• Facilitate Fact sheet
• Run better Meetings Fact sheet
• Work better with a Translator Info Sheet

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