National Farmer Field School Guideline: Agriculture and Horticulture Extension lead Executive

This Guideline addresses the Key Principles of FFS, Key elements of FFS, Conditions for successful FFS, Roles, and responsibilities of different stakeholders at all levels & master facilitators, standards to implement FFS, facilitator's guide with different Phases and steps for implementation of Field school (preparation, establishment & implementation), strategy for sustaining of FFS and Monitoring, evaluation and learning. The guideline also guides the running training of trainers and brings agricultural extension staff, NGO staff, and able farmers up to the point of being good farmer field school facilitators. It continues the tradition of teaching, as the facilitators will teach focusing on methods that are practical and readily replicable.