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Amani, Sharon Mei.

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Building and Assessing the Capacity of Farmers' Organizations: The Case of the United Nations World Food Programme's "Purchase for Progress".

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Building and Assessing the Capacity of Farmers' Organizations: The Case of the United Nations World Food Programme's "Purchase for Progress"./
作者:	Amani, Sharon Mei.
面頁冊數:	291 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-10A(E).
標題:	Sustainability. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10109596
ISBN:	9781339728803

Building and Assessing the Capacity of Farmers' Organizations: The Case of the United Nations World Food Programme's "Purchase for Progress".
Amani, Sharon Mei.

Building and Assessing the Capacity of Farmers' Organizations: The Case of the United Nations World Food Programme's "Purchase for Progress". - 291 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2016.

Intermediating between farmers and development projects, farmers' organizations (FOs) have the potential to improve rural market access and promote equitable growth by reducing transaction costs, strengthening producer bargaining power, and enabling collective action. Capacity building of FOs is a cornerstone of rural development policies and programs, such as the United Nations World Food Programme's Purchase for Progress (P4P) project, which partnered with 830 FOs representing 1.7 million farmers from 2008 through 2014.

ISBN: 9781339728803Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Sustainability.

Building and Assessing the Capacity of Farmers' Organizations: The Case of the United Nations World Food Programme's "Purchase for Progress".
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520 $a Despite significant donor investment, a unifying framework defining the concept and measurement of capacity building has eluded development practitioners. The core challenge originates from the paradigm shift away from top-down development toward participatory capacity building. Motivated by the practical difficulties encountered in ceding control to beneficiaries to enable their empowerment and self-determination, this study seeks to clarify conceptualizations of FO capacity and FO capacity building, to refine monitoring and evaluation of capacity building initiatives, and to develop and validate indicators and indices of organizational maturity and capacity.
520 $a Drawing on a critical review of the capacity building literature, this study develops an integrated, multi-level, capacity building framework and elaborates different levels of FO participation at each stage of the capacity building process. Through this lens, the research analyzes 11 organizational capacity assessment (OCA) tools and methodologies, and constructs 33 indicators of functional organizational capital to address OCA content gaps in conflict resolution, member participation, adaptive capacity, and the drivers of organizational change and collective action. The research further proposes methodological changes for increasing member participation in OCA to reduce reporting bias, to build knowledge and planning capacities, and to engender empowerment.
520 $a The indicators developed are tested on primary data gathered from P4P (treatment) and non-P4P (control) FOs in Ghana and Malawi. Results show that P4P has positively impacted the organizational capacity of participating groups, although there are regional differences. The statistical analysis validates most of the indicators and indices developed from this study's participatory capacity building framework. Overall, this research contributes to the understanding of what FO capacity building means and how to measure it.
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