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Academy Clinic

The Extension Academy offers scholars the opportunity to work individually or in Clinic to focus on specific extension or development issues. Clinic teams offer the advantage of synergy of effort and focus.

Organizations can suggest topics for study and resolution. 

Example topics

• The role and potential for Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Monitoring and Evaluation
• Use of ICT as a practical survey tool
• What Ag Apps are actually useful?
• Success stories - Case studies on specific projects or initiatives (e.g., Hello Tractor, Digital Green, Access Agriculture, m-Kilmo....)
• Extension and development models
• How to best teach extension?
• The role of nutrition in extension
• Gender differences in communication and extension.
• Savings groups as a pillar for development  
• Gender and nutrition 
• Add your own topic. 

Example outputs

Clinics are committed to high quality usable products that can take the forms of:

• Videos
• On-line courses
• Course materials: Lesson plans and support materials
• Exercise sheets
• Case studies - highlighting lessons learned
• Thesis research
• Blog contributions
• Formal publications

Clinic teams may form for credit, be project-driven or simply help students address areas of personal interest.