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Extension Programme Planning is a systematic approach to identify and address community problems through collaborative decision-making and resource evaluation. It involves defining situations, objectives, and solutions while ensuring community participation and clear prioritization of needs. The process includes steps such as fact collection, problem identification, planning, and evaluation to achieve effective outcomes.

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Extension Programme Planning-1

Extension Programme Planning is a systematic approach to identify and address community problems through collaborative decision-making and resource evaluation. It involves defining situations, objectives, and solutions while ensuring community participation and clear prioritization of needs. The process includes steps such as fact collection, problem identification, planning, and evaluation to achieve effective outcomes.

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Extension Programme Planning

Introduction
• Programme planning is a procedure of
working with people in an effort to recognize
unsatisfactory situations or problems and to
determine possible solutions or objectives and
goals. It is a conscious effort to meet the
needs, interests and wants of the people for
whom the programme is intended.
Extension Programme Planning
• Decision making process involving critical analysis
of the existing situation and the problems,
evaluation of various alternativesto solve these
problems and the selection of the relevant ones,
giving necessary priorities based upon local
needs and resources by the co-operative efforts
of the people both official and non-official with a
view to facilitate the individual and community
growth and development
Definition
• According to Kelsey and Hearne, Extension
Programme is a statement of situation,
objectives, problems and solutions. It is
relatively permanent but requires constant
revision. It forms the basis for extension plans.
• Programme Planning is a continuous series of
activities or operations leading to the
development of a plan of action to accomplish
particular objectives.
Technical Terms in PP
• Situation: It is a statement of affairs that
includes the cultural, social, economic and
physical conditions in which a particular group
of people find themselves at a given period of
time.
• Aim: Aims are generalised and broad
statement of directions with respect to given
activities.
• Objectives: Objectives are expression of the ends
towards which our efforts are directed
• Goal : It is distance in any given direction one
expects to go during a given period of time.
• Problem: It is an undesirable or unsatisfactory
condition that people after study, want to change it.
• Solution : It is the course of proposed action to
change an unsatisfactory condition to one that is
more satisfying
• Project : It is a specification of work to be done or
procedure to be followed in order to accomplish a
particular objective.
• Plan: A plan is a pre determined course of action. It
involves pre determining a course of action to be
taken but also includes mentally searching for
possibilities of future problems that might appear.
• Plan is usually an annual schedule of work when
used in programme planning context
• Programme: It is an over all, long ranged schedule or
broad outline of things that need to be done and
methods of doing them.
• Plan of work: It is an outline of activities so arranged
to enable efficient execution of the entire
programme. It answers the questions of what, when,
where, by whom and how the job will be done.
• Calendar of work: It is a plan of activities to be
undertaken in a particular time sequence. It is the
time schedule of work.
• Need : It is the gap between what is the
existing situation and what ought to be the
desirable situation.
• Felt need : A consciously recognized need or
kind of need which the people are aware of.
• Unfelt need : An unrecognized need.
Principles of Extension Programme
Planning
• Extension Programme should be based on an
analysis of the past experience, present situation
and future needs.
• Extension Programme should have clear and
significant objectives which could satisfy the
important needs of the people.
• Extension Programme should fix up priorities on the
basis of available resources and time.
• Extension Programme should clearly indicate the
availability and utilisation of resources
• Extension Programme should have general agreement
at all levels
• Extension Programme should involve people at the
local level
• Extension Programme should involve relevant
institutions and organisations
• Extension Programme should have definite plan of
work
• Extension Programme should provide for evaluation
of results and reconsideration of the programme
• Extension Programme should provide for equitable
distribution of benefits amongst the members of the
community .
Steps in Programme Planning
• Collection of facts
• Analysis of situation
• Identification of problems
• Determination of objectives and goals
• Developing plan of work and calendar of operations
• Follow through plan of work and calendar of
operations
• Evaluation of progress
• Reconsideration and revision of programme
Characteristics of a good programme
• It should clearly state the situation ,major
problem areas, important problems or needs
of the people
• It should state clearly and meaningfully the
objectives of the programme, (ie) both long
term and short term which are socially and
economically significant to people.
• It should clearly state the subject matters,
organisations and work for each objective
• It should include the summary of the long- term
programme and that should be made available
to all the members of the planning groups.
• It should be used as a basis for annual plan of
work.
• Participation of the local community, both local
leaders and members, in all the stages of
programme planning and implementation will
make the programme a successful one.
• Thank you

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