Contents: Preface. 1. Changing perspectives of participatory extension in India/D. Sen. 2. Participation in development: concept and strategy/D. Basu and R. Goswami. 3. Extension management: concept, issues and challenges/S.K. Acharya. 4. Perspective on project planning and project management in extension/Atanu Sarkar. 5. Goal Oriented Project Planning (GOPP) -- concept and methodology/D. Basu and D. Biswas. 6. Micro planning and project analysis through participation/S.K Acharya and K. Pradhan. 7. Stakeholder analysis/D. Basu and S. Banerjee. 8. Strategic planning by AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process)/R. Chakraborty. 9. Gender based planning for developing income generating options for women in agriculture/D. Sen. 10. Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and Participatory Learning Action (PLA): techniques and methodology/D. Das Gupta and S.K. Acharya. 11. Development communication in rural sector/D. Das Gupta. 12. Team building for extension programmes - practical exercise/S.K. Acharya and A.K. Bandopadhyay. 13. Conflict management/S.K. Acharya and K. Pradhan. 14. Communication skill/Ashutosh Sarkar. 15. Environmental resources: their preservation and management/D. Das Gupta. 16. Democracy and participatory management/S.K. Sarkar. 17. Participatory monitoring and evaluation of rural development/D. Basu and D. Biswas. 18. Systemic approach to participatory forest management: background and concept/S.B. Roy. 19. Bilateral matching institution: an illustration in forest conservation/S.B. Roy. 20. Participatory fishery project management/Dipankar Saha. 21. People's participation in forestry through socio-ecological process: concept and approach/Raktima Mukherjee. 22. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) initiatives in agricultural research and extension systems in India/P. Das. 23. Participatory project management through NGO/Basudev Deb. 24. Recommended structure of a plan of operation (in the form of document)/D. Basu. 25. Understanding project management software/Shyamal Majumder. 26. Finance for non-finance executives, some basic issues/S.N. Mukhopadhyay. 27. Designing training management: a participatory approach based on ELC/M.M. Adhikary, S.K. Acharya, A. Haque and K. Pradhan. 28. Group dynamics: an approach and application in project management/S.K. Acharya and M.M. Adhikary. 29. Participatory project management in cooperative sector/M.K. Sengupta. 30. Indigenous technical knowledges: issues and methods/S.K. Das. 31. Information system and participatory approaches for project formulation/Dipak De. 32. Participatory total community sanitation in Bangladesh :an experience/Kamal Kar and Brigitta Bode. 33. Participatory urban development: the success stories and learning experience/Santanu Jha. 34. Information is key to agricultural development/P.K. Majumder. 35. Business is key to agricultural development/S.K. Bose. 36. Agro-biodiversity: basic principles, scope and participatory management/S.K.T. Nasar and S.K. Samanta. Author's Index. Subject index.

"The blow of globalisation as it pervades into each and every iota of socialization process, extension science cannot remain stoic. The role of management in extension science and services has become an analogy in itself with the very upcoming and upbringing of the discipline.

Books on extension management are not that visible in Indian context. Managing extension system and managing agriculture through extension system have gone interchangeably coupled. That's why it is essential for the extension students, professionals, scientists primarily and agricultural scientists in general, to learn and earn the competency of managing resources like human and natural endowment, institutions, project and activities as to provide a fillip to the growth and nurturing of mega-agriculture system.

People's participation in extension management has become both an immediacy as well as inevitability. That is why participatory extension management has been conceived in this creation of the book as a giant stride for encompassing all possible niches of agricultural management.

The book has been designed in four components as well as corridors viz. Concept, methodology and approach, experience and back home application. Modern and up-to-date tools of project managements and participatory learning have been incorporated and some of these are logical framework analysis, micro planning and PERT, GOPP, ASA, stakeholders analysis, financial management, etc." (jacket)