4. Guiding principles of the PIP approach

The three guiding principles conceptualized in this section – empowerment, integration and collaboration – aim at organisations and staff involved in the PIP approach, and how they work with local actors. Rather than extension agents transferring knowledge, PIP staff arefacilitators of change ; and farmers, rather than beneficiaries of a project, are agents of change . In this bottom-up process, PIP staff creates a level playing field with other stakeholders, with the three guiding principles enabling resilience-based stewardship to become firmly rooted in the foundation.