Resources

SMART Skills 1: Introduction to the SMART Skills for Rural Development

This manual introduces field agents, extension workers and program managers to the SMART Skills approach.

SMART Skills 2: Organizing and Managing Farmers' Groups

This manual shows how field agents, extension workers and program managers can help farmers get organized.

SMART Skills 3: Facilitating Savings and Internal Lending Communities

This guide describes how to establish Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILC).

SMART Skills 4: Understanding Natural Resources

This manual shows how field agents, extension workers & program managers can help farmers understand natural resources and how natural resources affect farms.

SMART Skills 5: Managing Natural Resources

This manual shows how field agents, extension workers and program managers can help farmers manage their natural resources.

SMART Skills 6: Marketing Basics

Introduces the basic concepts of agricultural markets and marketing. How field agents, extension workers and program managers can help farmers understand.

SMART Skills 7: The Seven Steps of Marketing

This manual outlines seven steps that field agents, extension workers and program managers can follow to help farmers improve their marketing.

SMART Skills 8: Promoting Innovation

This manual shows how field agents, extension workers and program managers can help farmers do this systematically.

SMART Skills 9: Financial Education

This 11-lesson financial education curriculum are appropriate for development facilitators, field agents and SILC private service providers.

Training Videos

In this series of short training videos, F2F host organizations in Uganda share the knowledge they acquired through USAID’s Farmer-to-Farmer program implemented