Another highly significant, but consistently lacking necessity in our review, is regular communication and feedback to SEA participants during and following consultations. Consistent communication between proponents/consultants and community participants during the SEA is important in ensuring effective participation processes and for making certain that the input given is understood. Timely communication after completion of the SEA is also critical for people to see how their input has been used so that they can consider community futures. Since the consultation meetings, almost no community participants had seen documents containing SEA results in either case. As demonstrated in the case of KCDP, a lack of feedback left participants uncertain if and how their input had been used and threatened to negate the positive transformative learning outcomes realized through their participation. The inaccessibility of EA results is a finding also cited by previous research in developing and developed countries alike (Diduck and Sinclair, 2002; Okello et al., 2009; Sinclair and Diduck, 2009; Spaling et al., 2011).