Commonwealth Long-Term Intervention Monitoring Project: Stage 1 Mid-Term Review and Evaluation

8Acknowledgements

We wish to sincerely thank all who participated in the interviews for this review. We were able to tap a huge knowledge pool, to obtain insightful comments on what was working well and not so well with this Project, and to discuss possible modifications to the Project. An outstanding feature of these discussions was the widespread enthusiasm for the LTIM Project.

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