GFRAS

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1. Basic Contact Information on the Extension Organization

Organisation Name

LASBAD, Laboratoire des Sciences Biologiques et Agronomiques pour le Developpement

P.O. Box

BP 908

Street

Avenue des Martyrs

City

Banqui

State

Postcode

Country

Central African Republic

Phone 1

00236-21615008

Phone 2

Fax

00236-21617890

Website

Email

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Region

Africa

Subregion

Middle Africa

Questionaire version

ID: None, too small, but name of institution listed on WWES Public

WWES 2012

2. Legal status of organization

Legal Status of the organisation

University based extension

3. Primary Management Authority for this Extension Organization

Please indicate which operational level has the primary management authority for administrative (finance) and personnel matters.

Primary Management Authority

national

Please indicate the percentage of funding received from each source:

National government (Ministry of Agriculture):

State government (Department of Agriculture):

District level government

Fee for Service financing (Cost recovery from farmers)

Private sector financing

Donor financing

80

Other (please specify)

NGO

Other %

20

5. Number of Professional and Technical Extension Personnel for Selected Years

(If you do not have data available for some of the earlier years, just provide staffing numbers for those years where accurate data is available)

Senior Management Male

1

Senior Management Male

1

Senior Management Femail

Senior Matter Specialist Male

Senior Matter Specialist Female

Field Extension Staff Female

3

Field Extension Staff Male

2

Senior Management Femail

Senior Matter Specialist Female

Field Extension Staff Male

2

Field Extension Staff Female

3

6. Total Number of Extension Staff by Category of Position, Level of Education, and gender in 2009

Senior Management Staff

Subject Matter Specialist

Secondary School Diploma

2-3 y Agrucultural Diploma

Basic Science Degree

Master/Engineer in Agriculture Degree

2

PhD Degree

1

Field Level Extensionists

ICT Support

Secondary School Diploma

2-3 y Agrucultural Diploma

1

Basic Science Degree

Master/Engineer in Agriculture Degree

2

PhD Degree

In-Service Training Staff

Secondary School Diploma

2-3 y Agrucultural Diploma

Basic Science Degree

Master/Engineer in Agriculture Degree

PhD Degree

10 Subject Matter Specialists and Primary Subject Matter Areas Covered

Please estimate the number of subject matter specialists (SMSs) in your organization that are providing technical, management and other information in different subject matter areas:

Major cereal crops

No.

Other major cash/export crops 2

No.

Major root and tuber crops

2

Major protein & oil seed crops

Horticultural crops

Livestock

Fisheries

Farm management

Agricultural marketing

1

Land, soil, water or forestry management

Organic agriculture

Environmental and climate change

Rural development

2

Organizing farmer/women’s groups

Promoting other associations/cooperatives

Other major cash/export crops 1

12. Annual Expenditures for Selected Fiscal Years

To the extent possible, please indicate the total annual extension/advisory service expenditures for recent fiscal years.

Fiscal Year 2008

8000000

Fiscal Year 2009

10000000

Fiscal Year 2010

13. Clientel served (targeted)

Please specify the primary group or groups that your organization serves (targets) and indicate the relative importance of each group. If more than one group, please indicate the approximate amount of time and effort (as a percentage) that your organization devotes to each group.

% of time

0

% of time

0

Farmers growing

cassava

% of time

20

Farmers growing

cassava

% of time

50

Farmers growing

% of time

0

% of time

0

% of time

20

% o time

10

% of time

0

Rural youth

% of time

0

% of time

0

Others

% of time

0

Others 2

% of time

0

14. Allocation of Time by Field Extension or Advisory Staff.

Please indicate how the field extension staff utilize their time between three major categories:

Extension Planning and Support Activities: including: conducting needs assessment, program planning, preparing performance reports, in-service training, program evaluation and related activities

10

Educational and Advisory Service Activities including: implementing educational programmes, such as farm visits; conducting on-farm demonstrations, training courses, workshops, field days, etc.

70

Non-Educational Activities: including: carrying out non-educational activities, such as: regulatory work, data collection (e.g. agricultural census, crop forecasting), working on other government programs (e.g. subsidies, credit, input supply) and assisting local government

20

16. Number of Staff Working in Information and Communications Technology (ICT)

Number of staff working in print and mass media:

3

Total number of ICT staff

4

Number of staff working computer-based information technology:

1

15. Primary Extension Methods used by Field Extension Workers

Please indicate the percentage of staff time devoted to each method:

Regular field visits to individual village-level farmers:

2

Regular field visits to producer groups:

5

Conducting demonstrations, workshops and field days for farmers

10

Meeting with farmers at the field extension office

10

Other (please specify)

rural interest group

Percentage

10

17. Use of Mass Media and Information Technology (ITC) for disseminating information

Information bulletins and fact sheets

500

Workshop and training materials

10

Audio-visual educ. material for use by extension staff

10

Extension materials & publications available on-line

Other (please specify)

Type of information, advisory and or training materials produced by your organization for 3 years

Amount published and/or released during 2005-2008

Programs per month

1 hr/week

Average length of program in minutes

Radio Programs

Programs per month

20 minutes 4/week

Average length of program in minutes

TV Programs

18. Use of Information Technology

a) What percent of field extension workers have Internet access in their office?

10

What percent of field extension workers have Internet access in their office?

19. Pre-Service and In-Service Training Facilities for Extension staff.

b) Indicate which institutions carry out in-service training (please check all that apply):

university, agricuture schools, rural school

20. Transportation

What means of transportation is used by most field extension personnel?

Transportation type

public transportation

21. Program Planning and Priority Setting

a) Responsibility for program planning

Which system level has primary responsibility for program planning and extension/advisory priority setting (for example, in an annual work plan):

In the case of a public organization:

national

In the case of NGO, private firm, etc.

b) Participation of farmers

Please indicate if representatives of farmer organizations and producer groups are represented on extension advisory boards and committees at the following levels to help establish extension priorities based on farmer’s needs: (check all that apply):

other

c) Percentage of women

What percentage of these farmer representatives are women?

d) Role of Farmers

What role, if any, do farmer groups or organizations play in (check only one box per category):

22.Institutional linkages and partnerships

Please characterize your organization’s active linkages with the organizations listed below:

Please indicate the Total Number and Type of Legal Farmer & Producer Organizations (at all levels) currently operating within the country or other service area (e.g. region, province or district)

Number

70

Comment

Worldwide Extension Study