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systems, to increase public access and improve public delivery of government programs <br />and services (including in the judicial, legislative, or executive branches). <br />• Community outreach and engagement resources to support the gathering and sharing of <br />information in ways that improve equity and effective implementation of SLFRF-funded <br />programs and programs that respond to the public health emergency and its negative <br />economic impacts, or which households, small businesses, or impacted industries are <br />accessing during the pandemic that are funded by other sources. These methods include <br />but are not limited to community meetings, online surveys, focus groups, human -centered <br />design activities, behavioral science techniques, and other community engagement tools. <br />• Capacity building resources to support using data and evidence in designing, executing, <br />and evaluating programs, including hiring public sector staff, contractors, academics, <br />consultants, and others with expertise in evaluation, data, technology, and community <br />engagement as well as technical assistance support for public sector staff, staff of <br />subrecipients, and community partners to support effective implementation of SLFRF- <br />funded programs and programs that respond to the public health emergency and its <br />negative economic impacts, or which households, small businesses, or impacted <br />industries are accessing during the pandemic that are funded by other sources. <br />Administrative Needs Caused or Exacerbated by the Pandemic <br />As described in guidance and the interim final rule, SLFRF funds may be used to address <br />administrative needs of recipient governments that were caused or exacerbated by the pandemic. <br />Guidance following the interim final rule included several examples of this, for example, uses of <br />funds to address backlogs resulting from pandemic -related shutdowns (e.g., backlogs in court <br />189 <br />