The purpose of this study was to assess planning and delivering agricultural extension activities in the Kurdistan region of Iraq for future program implementation. The study was a descriptive research and used a modified Delphi technique to identify needed improvements and highlight barriers in planning and delivering extension activities by the willingness of extension workers. The population of the study was 50 MOAWR purposely selected government employees consisted of 10 extension experts, 15 extension administrators, and 25 extension agents. The study used three rounds web-based survey questionnaires. In Round I, the panelists were responded to two open ended questions to identify needed improvements and barriers in planning and delivering extension activities. The gathered information from Round I was examined, organized, and combined to create the second questionnaire for Round II. In Round II, the panelists were indicated their levels of agreement or disagreement about each needed improvement and barrier. The study employed a six-Likert scale with 1=”Strongly Agree”, 2=”Agree”, 3=”Somewhat Agree”, 4=”Somewhat Disagree”, 5=”Disagree”, and 6=”Strongly Disagree”. The needed improvements and barriers that received two-thirds of agreement (numbers 1 and 2 in the six-point Likert scale) were used to create the third questionnaire for Round III. In Round III, panelists were developed consensus by rating the statements that received two-third agreement in Round II. Equally, the same Round II six-point Likert scale was used in Round III. The result findings of the study were revealed to the demands of extension policy implementation in the region. The results of the study were summarized in three overall implementation theme areas: community based program development, building capacity program, and institutional structuring and three distinct research areas: leadership in extension, personal traits of extension agents, and external communication. Furthermore, the results of the study provided key points and details for each implementation theme and distinct research area.

[pt] Esta tese traz para o debate um estudo sobre a inserção de um território universitário no espaço que ocupa, através da dimensão extensionista do ensino superior. Para tanto, buscamos analisar as práticas originadas no Campus da Praia Vermelha da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), situado na zona sul da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, para compreender a relação entre a universidade e as comunidades vicinais deste seu Campus. No desenvolvimento do estudo de cunho qualitativo, com base na pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, discutimos a conformação do território universitário considerando as abordagens presentes nos debates da arquitetura e urbanismo, e alguns aspectos históricos da formação deste Campus; já do que foi construído, onde o Campus está inserido compreende-se um desenho urbano-social, dado pelas características e contradições dos bairros que o circundam, e examinamos as ações de sua Extensão sob a perspectiva dos territórios e lugares para os quais foram dirigidas tais atividades, procurando elaborar sobre a relação território-extensão universitária nesta dimensão teórica. O trabalho destaca as atividades acadêmicas realizadas entre os anos de 1999 e 2009, quando tiveram início os Congressos de Extensão da UFRJ, cujos Anais foram as principais fontes documentais da pesquisa. No exame das ações, optamos pela identificação e organização das áreas temáticas por cada edição dos eventos, cotejando cada texto-resumo constante nos Anais, segundo os objetos e objetivos das ações; formas de operacionalizar (modalidades); públicos e respectivos territórios; objetivos da comunicação; relações com o Campus da Praia Vermelha (além da vinculação) e com as problemáticas a sua volta; e parcerias institucionais, sendo que tais experiências estão contextualizadas pelas formulações da política de Extensão no ensino superior e pelos seus desdobramentos na UFRJ. No conjunto dos resultados, evidenciaram-se problemáticas sociais de várias naturezas que podem ser constituídas como demandantes das ações, assim como emergiram os desafios da interdisciplinaridade na formação universitária e da qualidade na manutenção da Extensão – como parte do tripé da formação superior. Em relação ao problema central, as atividades não abarcaram, prioritariamente, demandas do território destacado, pois estiveram voltadas a diversos outros com ênfase aos públicos de lugares próximos à Cidade Universitária (UFRJ), na Ilha do Fundão, e à Baixada Fluminense, no Grande Rio. / [en] This thesis brings to the debate a study on the insertion of a university territory in the space it occupies, through the extensionist dimension of higher education. We seek to analyze the practices originating at the Praia Vermelha Campus of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), located in the south zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, to understand the relationship between the university and the neighboring communities of this Campus. In its qualitative development, based on bibliographic and documentary research we discuss the formation of the university territory considering the approaches present in architecture and urbanism debates, and some historical aspects of the formation of this Campus; the built territory where the Campus is located is understood by an urban-social design, given by the characteristics and contradictions of the neighborhoodssurrounding it, and we examine the extension actions of this Campus from the perspective of the territories and places for whom these activities were directed, we seek to elaborate on the relationship between territory and university extension in this theoretical dimension. The work highlights the academic activities carried out between 1999 and 2009, when the UFRJ Extension Congresses began, whose Annals were the main documentary sources of the research. When examining the actions, we chose to identify and organize the thematic areas for each edition of the events, comparing each summary text contained in the Annals, according to the objects and objectives of the actions; ways of operationalise (modalities); public and respective territories; communication objectives; relations with the Praia Vermelha Campus (in addition to the connection) and the issues surrounding it; and institutional partnerships, and such experiences are contextualized by the formulations of the Extension policy in higher education and by its developments at UFRJ. In the set of results, social problems of various natures were evident, which can be constituted as demands for actions; just as the challenges of interdisciplinarity in university training and quality in the maintenance of Extension emerged, as part of the tripod of higher education. In relation to the central problem, the activities did not primarily cover demands from the highlighted territory, as they were focused on several others, with an emphasis on audiences in places close to Cidade Universitária (UFRJ), on Ilha do Fundão, and Baixada Fluminense, in Grande Rio.