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The diagnostic report was written under Feed the Future’s Developing Local Extension Capacity (DLEC) project, a network of the world’s foremost extension experts that provides technical and strategic support to USAID missions and country extension and advisory service (EAS) systems to improve smallholder farmers’ livelihoods. The five-year (2016-2021) leader with associates (LWA) project is designed to diagnose, test and share locally-customized, best-fit solutions for agricultural extension systems and services to help missions across the Feed the Future countries meet their objectives. Led by Digital Green in partnership with Care International, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS), DLEC is an action-oriented, evidence-based learning project. Three mechanisms work together to help reach the project’s end goal of building the capacity of country actors increase access, quality and sustainability of EAS systems.