ENHANCING ORGANIZATIONAL-EFFECTIVENESS IN DEVELOPING-COUNTRIES - THE TRAINING AND VISIT SYSTEM REVISITED - COMMENTS

This article comments on the above-titled article which appeared in Pu blic Administration and Development (PAD), Vol. 12. It argues that Hul me's article: (i) does not, as it professes to, bring out the organiza tional impact of the training and visit (T&V) system of extension and, more seriously, does not suggest what improvements are needed to the system, and whether any such improvements have been tried anywhere and with what results; (ii) dismisses the rigorous statistical analysis o f the impact of the system by Feder and Slade, and approvingly cites A ntholt's methodologically unsustainable comparison between states in I ndia, without giving convincing reasons for this choice; and (iii) ign ores the important developments regarding T&V extension in the recent past, and relies on earlier papers on the subject. Some of the recent developments regarding the implementation of T&V in Africa are given i n this article, including a summary of recent evaluations done in Keny a and Burkina Faso. The article concludes with an account of the manag erial issues posed by T&V.