Governments will be concerned at first with two distinct organizational tasks: first, the coordination of multi-sectoral entities (public, private and third sector, i.e. NGOs, civil society institutions), and second, the implementation of participatory programmes to assist the targeted rural communities, farmers’ groups and households toward improved farm systems and livelihoods. Government will likely need to improve the capabilities of the multi-sectoral partners (including its own relevant public sector agencies, such as agriculture, water, education, health, transportation, interior) and at the same time the capabilities of rural community and farmer group leaders. The programmes developed and promulgated by the different sectoral partners will also require new efforts at financing, and their programmes eventually evaluated for the purpose of upscaling.
A. Gaaya
