Evaluating agricultural extension and education projects: the VELVET approach

Chrysanthi Charatsari and Evagelos D. Lioutas

Development in Practice, 2020, vol. 30, issue 4, 548-557

Abstract: This practical note presents an alternative, learner-centred model for the evaluation of agricultural extension and/or education projects. The VELVET model is based on six evaluation axes: values, expectations, learning, value change, empowerment, and transformation. Using the identification of farmers’ value systems and the determination of their expectations as a jumping-off point for the evaluation of a project, VELVET assesses the learning achieved over the course of an extension/education project, the degree to which participation in the project leads to a change of trainees’ value systems, and the project’s contribution to participants’ empowerment and transformation.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2020.1727856

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