Researchers from the nation’s four Regional Rural Development Centers (RRDCs) who adapted traditional community-engaged research approaches for an entirely virtual setting have shared their key takeaways and lessons learned in a paper published in Community Development, a peer-reviewed journal of the Community Development Society. The methods they developed can be used by practitioners and researchers to engage with communities at any scale to understand community needs and iteratively co-create strategies to address them.
The paper, published online last month as an open-access resource, describes a novel approach developed by the RRDCs to conduct a rapid assessment of U.S. rural communities at both regional and national scales following the COVID-19 pandemic. Their goal was to identify the most urgent post-pandemic issues facing rural America, and how best to target recovery investments for meaningful impacts in U.S. rural communities.
Learn more about the research and access the paper at the Regional Rural Development Centers' website: https://bit.ly/3CpaSDR.
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