ABSTRACT
The methodology under SCI-SLM is crucial to the project in more ways than one. It was carefully designed for impact and effectiveness and based on experience, not simply on hypothesis. The methodology used under SCI-SLM is largely based on successful experience under the Promoting Farmer Innovation (PFI) project. The field activities component, though maintaining the same ten-step iterative approach of the original PFI methodology, underwent a thorough redesign to capture the numerous aspects and dynamics that intervene when operating with community innovations. The field agents and the project front-line staff specific ally gather information on the community as follows: name of the community, geographical location, type of organisation and its official status, composition of the community, management structure. A Community was defined as a socially coherent group of people involved in collective action and having common interest, values and goals in relation to the management of the land and the natural resources in a specific geographical location.
