Measuring up - A guide for learners: HIV-related advocacy evaluation training for civil society organisations

The need for advocacy to address the challenges of HIV is widely acknowledged and accepted. There is ample evidence of the changes good advocacy has been able to bring about, from improving health systems and treatment supply chains to enabling the voices of the most marginalised to be heard and for communities to be empowered to meet the challenges of HIV themselves.

This resource, published by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, brings together useful concepts and models we have identified from new literature on advocacy evaluation, much of it developed in and for social change work in the global North. The Allliance has taken these ideas and piloted them with colleagues working in low- and middle-income countries, to act as a springboard for civil society organisations to develop approaches that meet their needs for accountability, planning and delivering results. Because this is relatively new thinking, this resource is not a step-by-step ‘how to’ guide. Instead the Alliance want sto encourage people to try these approaches and adapt them to their needs and circumstances. Therefore, the guide comes with a set of resources that is intended to help advocates themselves acquire enough of a working knowledge of the field to train themselves and each other.