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Modernizing extension and advisory services (MEAS)

Despite the central role that farmers play as agricultural producers in developing countries,Â they are often inadequately served by research, extension and advisory services. DEC abstract (PB-AAK-663)

Name source: not recorded for this programScope: globalKind: program

Key awd:OAA-L-10-00003

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52 facts shown; 0 unconfirmed links; 0 support mechanisms (not programs); 34 documents cite this program.

The one-paragraph answer: years, implementer, funder and purpose, each from document metadata.

MEAS is a USAID-funded program composed of multiple land grant universities and US institutions.1 The program's lead institution is the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.1 In 2012-2013, MEAS entered into an agreement with the FNC.1 As part of MEAS, UC Davis conducted a workshop with call center operators and a subset of farmers involved with Esoko.2

Source: generated from documents. Each number opens the page it was written from.

Operated in: Malawi, Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, Africa South of Sahara, Bangladesh, India, Africa, Latin America, Nepal, Colombia, Brazil, Tajikistan.

Years: 2010 to 2016 award start, end from document years
Implementer: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Florida; University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana; and 5 more 17 sources
Funder or award: USAID. Bur. for Food Security; OAA-L-10-00003
Purpose: Not available yet: the program's stated purpose has not been read from its documents.

Districts, regions and facilities the program's own documents name, with what the document says it did there. Source: sentences in the program's documents

Districts, regions and facilities named in the program's own documents, not verified sites. Place dots exist for Malawi and Guatemala only so far.

Sample Built from district names in Malawi documents while the full place data loads; it is not yet the finished place list.

Solid: the documents describe the program's work there. Faint: named in the program's documents. Bigger means more mentions. Shown: district; squares are facilities.

District · 16 mentions · 2014
District · 12 mentions · 2014

Countries where this program operated, set by the countries its documents name most often. Countries only tagged on documents are listed apart. Source: document tags, scope rule

When the program ran, from its start year to the latest document year. A hatched bar means the start is our estimate. Source: award and document years

Axis: award years, end from years in documents. The start year comes from award fiscal year; the end is the latest document year, so the program may have run longer.

Who started the program, and which administration it began under. Timing only; it does not say who started it. Source: initiative records, start year

Organizations that ran this program, from award records and document authors. Prime and sub roles are not split yet. Source: award and document records

Named as an institutional author on documents; whether prime, sub or consortium member is not recorded. Basis: read from a record field

Organizations named on this program's documents.
Name	Role	Years	Basis	Evidence
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	implementer	2011 to 2016	Stated in a document	17 sources
University of Florida	implementer	2011 to 2012	Stated in a document	9 sources

Identifiers of the awards and the organizations that funded it. Amounts are under Money. Source: award records

Awards this program is funded through (identifiers, not amounts).
Name	Years	Basis	Evidence
OAA-L-10-00003 (other, FY2010)	2011 to 2016	Stated in a document read from a record field	33 sources

Basis: read from a record field

Funding and managing organizations.
Name	Years	Basis	Evidence
USAID. Bur. for Food Security	2011 to 2016	Stated in a document

Labels on the program's documents, not a description of what the program did. Source: DEC document tags

Programs worth reading next, by topic, implementer, country and years. Similar by facets (topic, implementer, country, years) and, when available, description. It says the programs look alike, not how they are related in time. Source: catalog facets

Studies that assessed this program, and the lessons taken from them. Source: linked evaluation documents

Evaluation studies and evaluation-stage documents, by title and year. Findings not extracted yet.
Title	Year	Document	Why listed
Agricultural Call Centers: An infrastructure and demand audit	year not recorded	PA-00K-Z97	linked as an evaluation of this program
The Integration of Nutrition in EAS Programming	2014	PA-00K-Z93	evaluation-stage document (eval other, weak classifier)

Not recorded yet: support mechanisms, money rows. A missing record is not a finding. USAspending records start in FY2007; earlier obligations are missing, not zero.

Every document that cites this program, grouped by a stage label from a weak classifier. Source: document library

Modernizing extension and advisory services (MEAS)

Evaluatorsassessed the program, never counted as implementers

Host-government counterpartsthe government body the program worked with

Name	Years	Basis	Evidence
Tajikistan	2013	Stated in a document	2 sources
Ghana	2015	Stated in a document	1 source
Malawi	2012	Stated in a document	1 source
Nepal	2012	Stated in a document	1 source

What this program was

Where it worked2

Places13

Timelineyears: award years, end from document years

Political context

Implementers8

Awards and funding sources16

Topic tags15

Similar programs

Evaluations and lessons2

Documents by lifecycle stage34years in documents

Evaluatorsassessed the program, never counted as implementers

Host-government counterpartsthe government body the program worked with