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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'.

机译：建设和评估农民组织的能力：以联合国世界粮食计划署“追求进步”为例。

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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.;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.;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.;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.
机译：在农民与发展项目之间，农民组织（FO）有潜力通过降低交易成本，加强生产者的议价能力和采取集体行动来改善农村市场准入并促进公平增长。 FO的能力建设是农村发展政策和计划的基石，例如联合国世界粮食计划署的“促成购买”（P4P）项目，该项目与830个FO合作，从2008年到2014年代表170万农民。定义能力建设的概念和度量的统一框架使开发从业人员望而却步。核心挑战源自从自上而下的发展向参与式能力建设的范式转变。出于将控制权移交给受益人以使其赋权和自决方面遇到的实际困难的动机，本研究旨在阐明FO能力和FO能力建设的概念，完善对能力建设举措的监控和评估，并制定和验证指标以及对组织成熟度和能力的指标。基于对能力建设文献的批判性回顾，本研究建立了一个集成的，多层次的能力建设框架，并详细说明了在能力建设过程的每个阶段的FO参与程度。通过这一视角，研究分析了11种组织能力评估（OCA）工具和方法，并构建了33个功能性组织资本指标，以解决OCA在解决冲突，成员参与，适应能力以及组织变革和集体行动的驱动因素方面的差距。这项研究进一步提出了方法上的改变，以增加成员在OCA中的参与度，以减少报告偏见，建立知识和计划能力并增强能力。;所开发的指标是根据从P4P（治疗）和非P4P（控制）收集的主要数据进行测试的）加纳和马拉维的FO。结果显示，尽管存在地区差异，但P4P对参与组的组织能力产生了积极影响。统计分析验证了本研究的参与性能力建设框架中开发的大多数指标和指数。总体而言，这项研究有助于了解FO能力建设的含义以及如何对其进行衡量。

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    Amani, Sharon Mei.;

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    Arizona State University.;

  • 授予单位 Arizona State University.;
  • 学科 Sustainability.;Organizational behavior.;Agricultural economics.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2016
  • 页码 291 p.
  • 总页数 291
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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