This paper presents the formulated 'play-to-engage' model for community engagement that incorporates factors in cultural protocols and the game design thinking approach. The model was experimented in an indigenous rural village in Borneo. Engagement was done with a group of indigenous community leaders, teachers and indigenous students from the village. It is a known fact that all indigenous cultures have overwhelming cultural protocols and rural custom practices for researchers to adhere to and follow. Since game is a universal language, the creation of a trustworthy partnership between the community and researchers was made easier using play during the engagement process. Incorporating a fun gameplay approach could also be a solution to thrive on reflection and creativity of those individuals in capturing the needs of the study. The outcome of the engagement was positive and the communities' needs, issues, experiences and motivation were collected during the play.

The study examined the effect of Fadama II project on agro-processing among the benefitting communities in Adamawa State, Nigeria. Two hundred respondents comprising of Fadama II project beneficiaries and non-project beneficiaries outside Fadama II communities that matched were randomly selected from five Local Government Areas each. Based on propensity score matching (PSM) and doubledifference estimator (DD), the data were analysed using simple statistical tool. To estimate the impact of the project, t-test analysis was used to determine the significant difference between the project participants and non-project participants. The results showed that the difference in quantity of processed products, price of processed products, amount realised from commercial processing and total income between the beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries were significant at p = 0.05. The paper recommends that much emphasis be laid on the importance agro-processing among the beneficiaries, the activities of the project be expanded to cover the whole state, other developmental project like food security project, ADP etc. should incorporate agro-processing into the mainstream of their activities as it has great potentials for poverty eradication.

Siang-Ting Siew , Alvin W. Yeo, John C.L. Phoa, May-Chiun Lo, Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer and Vikneswaran Nair Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, MALAYSIA Institute of Social Informatics and Technological Innovations, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, MALAYSIA 3 School of Hospitality, Tourism, and Culinary Art, Taylor’s University, Selangor, MALAYSIA