The absence of a unified budget allocation for extension would result in the effective creation of three different public extension services in each of the districts. The objective of the exercise is to assist village communities to take control of their environment and development through participatory analysis of the existing situation, problem identification and prioritization, elaboration of action plans, and implementation of development activities. Here too, there is a risk that too much might be expected from this effort. Already, questions have been raised about what the interface and synergies between the Village Participation exercise the ongoing extension efforts. The West African experience and the exercise in Uganda yielded the following results.
Farmers determine the agenda of the meetings with extension .
Through the participatory diagnosis exercises, farmers determine the relative importance of activities in different sectors such as agriculture, infrastructure, health, education, etc. Organization of interface between farmers and extension . Pressure from farmers . Probably the most important feature of the Village Participation exercise is that it provides a platform for farmers to exert pressure on political leaders and bureaucrats. Pressure on the respective service delivery systems thus begins to build.