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Process skills and core competencies are basic sets of knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that frontline extension professionals require to perform their tasks well and respond to contingencies, change, and the unexpected. A team of extension researchers led by Dr. Suvedi conducted three comprehensive studies in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Findings from these studies revealed a significant gap between existing  and  required skills  of  the  frontline  extension professionals on the following essential     competencies:

Program planning, 

Program implementation,

Communication,

Information and communication technologies,

Program evaluation, 

Personal and professional development,

Diversity and gender,

Extension soft skills,

Agribusiness, marketing, and value chain development; and

Climate change mitigation and   extension.

This resource book is developed primarily to serve as a training resource on above competencies for the frontline extension professionals, extension faculty, research scholars, and graduate students to address the needs of demand-driven,   pluralistic, participatory, and decentralized   extension    services: