formative research is what we do to ensure we have the basics rights about the population we what to engage with. community engagement is plan design to ensure that our community is well informed about our research and how we will address potential problems.
the difference between the two is that formative research is what you found out about a particular community and community engagement blue print of how you speak with these community.
we were looking for low risk areas and the CAB assisted in doing community mapping and identify areas were the low risk participants.
