Findings and recommendations of the Community Partnership Center EZ/EC Learning Initiative

The report is a summary of the data gathered and analyzed by citizens learning teams and their supporters. The teams worked to design and implement a participatory evaluation process to track local progress of a federal program to relieve severe distress in rural and urban areas. The report focuses on lessons learned about the early stages of the program and the use of community-based monitoring and evaluation as a tool for strengthening community development.