AFRAS learning portal offers a window on the latest and topical e-learning opportunities which are instrumental for advancing extension and RAS in today’s complex and rapidly changing rural environments. To this end AFRAS e-learning portal connects you with key learning spaces, where you can browse courses of your interest provided in different languages often also in Arabic.
FAO e-learning academy
The FAO elearning Academy provides learning opportunities and multilingual elearning courses in a range of formats, including elearning courses for self-paced learning, blended learning programmes, massive open online courses (MOOCs), technical webinars, online tutored courses, mobile learning, face-to-face training workshops and university master’s and postgraduate degree programmes. FAO elearning academy offers digitally certified courses and includes a wide selection of courses available in Arabic. The FAO elearning courses are offered free of charge as a global public good.
IFAD Operations Academy (OPAC)
The e-learnings are launched on the internal Learning Management System and accessible only to individuals with an IFAD email; however, OPAC is releasing on an ongoing basis a selection of them externally to make them accessible to anyone outside of IFAD. Click here for the full list of e-learnings and their description, published externally on ifad.org.
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GFRAS New Extensionist
The GFRAS New Extensionist is a global view of extension and advisory services (EAS) that reinvents and clearly articulates the role of EAS in the rapidly-changing rural context. It argues for an expanded role for EAS within agricultural innovation systems (AIS) and development of new capacities at different levels to play this role. The Learning Kit contains several modules designed for self-directed, face-to-face, or blended learning and can be a useful tool for (not exclusively) individual extension field staff, managers, lecturers and non-governmental organisations, and other training institutions. The development process was designed and managed as an iterative journey of broad consultations, discussions, and feedback from a wide range of stakeholders.
https://www.g-fras.org/en/knowledge/new-extensionist-learning-kit-nelk.html
My.COOP
My.COOP is a training package and programme focused on the management of agricultural cooperatives. It is designed to equip current and future managers with the necessary skills to identify and address the key challenges that agricultural cooperatives may encounter. Developed through a collaboration of organizations including the ILO, FAO, the International Training Centre of the ILO, Agriterra, the Royal Tropical Institute, and Wageningen University and Research Centre, the My.COOP training package comprises four modules (basics of agricultural cooperatives, cooperative service provision, supply of farm inputs, and cooperative marketing), along with a trainer’s manual and a mobile learning toolkit.
My.COOP Managing your agricultural cooperatives