 The Nile Basin Development Challenge is working with local platforms in Geldu, Diga and Afogra in Ethiopia, and the members of the platforms as they have action research, in this case further development, because that was found to contribute at large to land and water management issues in those areas. Effelde is an experienced sharing event. The main purpose of Effelde is to share lessons with wider stakeholders including farmers from the wider community who could be the potential target farmers in the scaling out of the practices in the future. Effelde begins with participants coming in the morning. The facilitator welcomes the participants and invites community leaders to have a blessing of the day. Then all the visitors will be led by the farmers to show what he planted or what he did in his own farm. At the end of the farm tour, the participants come and gather under a big tree. They are asked about their own views about what they have seen. The farmers when they saw the fodder and when they heard from their fellow farmers that some started generating income from the sales of the planting material of the fodder and their animals liked it and their soil is stabilized and protected from erosion. They were inspired and they wanted to try the material on their own farm. Some of the farmers who were initially contacted to be part of the research process because they were new to the idea rejected the invitation and when they were summoned for the field day and saw the performance of the fodder and the farms of their own friends, they regretted that they refused the invitation initially. They asked for participation in the research. Innovation platforms in field days are expected to continue even if Nile-based development challenge program stops its activity with them but that needs to be worked out before time because the capacity of the local platform members has to be grown technically and initially also financially. There should be stakeholder to take over the facilitation role and currently Nile-based development challenge is devolving the facilitation role of these platforms to local facilitators which are hoped to continue not only on one farm but in many other farms. Field days are generally good to enhance participation in the dialogue among farmers and also experts. Traditionally research is done elsewhere and it's given to farmers to implement but now farmers are equally planning and implementing and monitoring and evaluating the research. Now everybody comes around the field day object and everybody is free to share his own or her own views and if you talk to farmers just theory and tell them these things works for you and why don't you try and so. They are not comfortable by hearing and doing it that way. As it is traditionally said seeing is believing they are more comfortable than they trust when they see what is done there and when they hear from their fellow farmers about the performance of any intervention.