The National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) was designed based on the need to empower farmers - particularly the poor and women - to demand and control agricultural advisory services and increase participation of the people in decision-making with the goal of reducing poverty. The purpose of this study was to find out whether the implementation ofNAADS in Nebbi district was participatory. The study took critical look at Farmer Institutional Development (FID), Advisory and Information Services and Participatory Planning, Enterprise Selection and Technology Development as key units of analysis. Using The Ladder of Participation as analytical tool, the study found out that the institutional development process under NAADS in Nebbi district has not enhanced the participation of farmers in planning process and capacity of group. The involvement of farmers in decision-making processes is constraint by inadequate institutional and resource capacity. Farmers' participation is further being constraint by self-interest elites and politicians who have influence and dominated the institutions that are meant to empwer poor farmers. In conclusion therefore, institutional processes that were aimed at enhancing participation of poor farmers under NAADS are not promoting capabilities of farmers to take control over processes of decision-making. NAADS implementation process in Nebbi district is therefore not participatory.