ABSTRACT
The Community Action Research Projects (CARP) approach has required significant mindset and cultural shifts for university administrators to transform the systems in which they are embedded. This chapter highlights the experiences of two universities, Egerton University in Kenya and Gulu University in Uganda, that are early adopters of an approach where community engagement and entrepreneurship initiatives pre-dated the CARPs. Among the universities that hosted CARP platforms, both institutions were supported to institutionalise experiential learning, transdisciplinary action research, community engagement and multi-stakeholder collaboration. This strong orientation provided a context for the CARP platforms to both benefit from and strengthen the wider processes of institutional transformation. This approach of student-centred practical and experiential learning focused on community engagement has proved essential for enhancing the capacities of the universities to transform themselves and agricultural education to produce proactive graduates.
