During the recent Forum on Communication for Development and Community Media for Family Farming (FCCM), Loes Witteven of Wageningen UR presented Management of Development- Rural Development and Communication

1. Management of Development MoD
Rural Development and Communication
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MoD Competences
Overall competences Professional Master programme
Management of Development
• To explore complex problems considering
stakeholder and system perspectives.
• To analyse the performance of rural development
organizations in a dynamic context.
• To design processes of change from an inclusive
perspective.

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RDC competences
• To analyse stakeholders’ interests and needs and
outline policies that lead to social change and
participation.
• To design processes and strategies that facilitate
communication and knowledge sharing.

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RDC competences cntd
• To transform traditional extension policy and
practice and develop new approaches to
communication and innovation.
• To design and facilitate effective, appropriate
and exciting learning environments.

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RDC course structure
Title Sub modules
Communication
& Innovation
Communication for Innovation
in Rur Dev
Public Participation and
Knowledge Circulation
Media Design for Social Change
Learning &
Transformation
Foundations of Knowledge,
Learning and Transformation
Planning of Training and
Facilitation

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12. Zambia – Understanding radio listening groups by
staff of NAIS / MoA.
Ghana - Mediated participation with the Visual
Problem Appraisal of Cocoa Farmers in Cocobod.
Ghana – Advisory service quality of agro-input
vendors to farmers.
Uganda - Rural extension workers matching
knowledge demands in small scale fisheries.
Sri Lanka – Organizing public participation in the
Vidatha Development Program.
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Student thesis

13. Zambia – Understanding radio listening groups by
staff of NAIS / MoA.
Ghana - Mediated participation with the Visual
Problem Appraisal of Cocoa Farmers in Cocobod.
Ghana – Advisory service quality of agro-input
vendors to farmers.
Uganda - Rural extension workers matching
knowledge demands in small scale fisheries.
Sri Lanka – Organizing public participation in the
Vidatha Development Program.
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Student thesis