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Expert consultation “New Directions for Inclusive Pluralistic Service Systems”
1. Pluralistic Service Systems
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May Hani
Policy Officer – Institutions and Services
Magdalena Blum
Extension Systems Officer
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Rome, 11-13 May 2016
Expert consultation
“New Directions for Inclusive
Pluralistic Service Systems”
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Objectives
To open a debate and suggest action on Inclusive
Pluralistic Service Systems (PSS) to inform policy and
development planning
with a focus on
Governance, accountability, coordination and
Financing mechanisms and sustainability
Create a common understanding on challenges and issues
related to inclusive PSS
Formulate actionable recommendations in terms of
policies and transformative investments
6. Pluralistic Service Systems
Why a focus on inclusive services?
80% of the poor live in rural areas majority of them are
small farmers
75% of them depend on agriculture and natural resources
80% of world food is produced by smallholders
43% of the agricultural labor force are women
Improving livelihoods of small men and women farmers is
key to reducing rural poverty
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Overall policy framework
Framework of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG1)
on eliminating extreme poverty
FAO Strategic programme on reducing rural poverty
Access initiative – strengthening organization and
ensuring access to resources, information, services
and markets
Enhancing service provision targeting the poor
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Services and livelihoods
Rural advisory services that contribute of enhancing
livelihoods of small farmers
Productivity
Profitability and income
Market access
Resilience
Learning
Social and economic opportunities
Services that are inclusive, gender sensitive, demand-
driven and market-oriented
10. Pluralistic Service Systems
Advisory Services are inclusive when …
Responding to local demands and opportunities of all types
of farmers/rural producers
All farm household activities are included in the services
(livestock, fisheries, high value crops, farm management, …)
No one individual service is likely to be broadly inclusive,
if it is to be tailored enough to meet farmers’ needs.
To be truly inclusive, there needs to be close collaboration,
participation and downward accountability to end users
11. Pluralistic Service Systems
Advisory Services are inclusive when …
They have certain qualities/characteristics
Affordable, easily and equally accessible, sustainable, gender equal,
downward accountability to end users, demand driven, ….
holistic, bottom-up approach, and horizontal communication
They are participatory in the sense of
Stakeholders and users involved in establishing priorities, decision
making, delivering services, monitoring and evaluation
Inclusion/Exclusion can occur at the point of entry and in the
process of delivery. Services can be exclusive in terms of
Particular population/users
Some needs/demands
Types of providers / services they offer
Means needed (e.g. restricted mobility can limit access)
12. Pluralistic Service Systems
Inclusion is about …
Engaging with different actors, systems, disciplines, for
different purposes, with a common goal.
Recognizing that the risks (climate or conflict related) are of
different characters for different groups in society
Recognizing where there are gaps in the overall landscape of
service provision
Understanding if and how local government and others might
be held accountable for inclusive services
Understanding how culture and context influence participation
in different services
Looking at incentives and disincentives for inclusion in the
political institutions that steer service provision
14. Pluralistic Service Systems
Services are considered inclusive, if they
target resource poor and vulnerable farmers, especially
women and youth
are tailored to the multiple capacities, needs and
demands of these farmers
are characterized by continuous dialogue and learning
between farmers and service providers
are based on complementary services by different
providers
Inclusive Services
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Advisory Services
Advisory services are understood as encompassing all
intangible services to farmers, including
information, knowledge, brokering and advice, on
issues such as production, inputs and technology,
credit, nutrition, processing, marketing,
organization and business management
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Where do we stand?
Considering heterogeneity of farmers and their
needs/demands
Recognizing the role of rural women and youth in
agriculture and rural economies
From linear, bi-lateral approaches to a system
perspective
From production focus to improving livelihoods
From universal public services by a single provider to
diverse state and non-state providers
Changing role of the State in a pluralistic environment
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Questions
Plurality is evident - Is there a system?
In a changing institutional environment, how to ensure
that the poor don’t fall through the cracks?
How can farmers and their organization be empowered
to amplify their voice and role in decision making?
What kind of coordination would be needed? And by
whom?
How can service providers be made accountability to
farmer?
How to achieve complementarity among service
providers?
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Questions
What form of policy environment is conducive to achieve
relevant, efficient and effective services?
How can development agencies support governments and
non-state actors
in enhancing quality, inclusiveness and sustainability
of services?
in taking up new roles, collaboration and partnerships?
What mechanisms for coordination and accountability can
be supported?
What financing mechanisms and partnership opportunities
can help to achieve inclusiveness and sustainability?
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Our challenge
Do we have the knowledge and evidence to give answers
to these questions?
This group has the expertise and mandate to come up
with doable recommendations and suggestions for action
that would make a difference
We are looking forward to working
with you over the next three days
Editor's Notes
Advisory services “facilitate the access of farmers, their organizations and other market actors to knowledge, information and technologies; facilitate their interaction with partners in research, education, agri-business, and other relevant institutions; and assist them to develop their own technical, organizational and management skills and practices”
Small scale farmers, vulnerable groups, such as women, landless farmers, young people, wage labourers, ethnic minorities, people in remote areas, all those who need services