Series Foreword Judah J. Viola and Robin Lin Miller List of Tables List of Figures List of Abbreviations Project ACT Timeline Introduction: Avenir Jeune de L'Ouest PART I STIGMA AND THE GLOBAL HIV EPIDEMIC Ch. 1 We don't want to speak about it Ch. 2 Our power is believing in a better life tomorrow PART II THE MAKINGS OF PROJECT ACT Ch. 3 The small and mighty Ch. 4 Becoming a learning community PART III ADVOCACY IN ACTION Ch. 5 Promise rises Ch. 6 We need allies Ch. 7 Knocked back on our heels Ch. 8 With a little bit of money and a little bit of time Ch. 9 There will be no protests here Epilogue About the Evaluation Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgements

"This book offers one of the most thorough descriptions available of what advocacy evaluation looks like when it is community-engaged, collaborative, driven by values, methodologically rigorous, and fully-integrated into the work of advocates so that it supports their learning, adaptation, and the pursuit of their goals. As a longtime advocacy evaluator, I was deeply moved and incredibly inspired." -- Julia Coffman, Founder and Co-Executive Director, Center for Evaluation Innovation, Washington, DC "This is a compassionate and honest account of advocacy for policy reform and strategic community-led responses to HIV prevention and LGBTQ+ persons' needs in Africa and the Caribbean regions. This compelling account of years of advocacy and lobbying neither idealizes nor trivializes partners committed to social transformation. Successes and failures provide the reader with much to learn from, especially, the importance of adaptative strategies of resilience in the face of resistance." -- Sybille N. Nyeck, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder

Robin Lin Miller is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University, where she directs doctoral training in community psychology and is associate director of the master's degree and certificate in program evaluation. She earned her PhD in psychology from New York University. She began her career as an evaluation specialist for the Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) in the earliest years of the HIV epidemic. She has since evaluated diverse community-designed and led programs in the US, Africa, and Caribbean for adolescents, Black gay and bisexual men, and other at-risk populations (e.g., ex-offenders, bisexual girls, male sex workers). George Ayala is the former Executive Director of MPact Global Action for Gay Men's Health and Rights, where he led the agency's overall strategic direction and high-level global advocacy with funders, governments, and multilateral organizations. He worked collaboratively with activists worldwise to advocate for equitable access to HIV and other health services for sexual and gender minority people. Dr. Ayala currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Alameda County Public Health Department where he oversees the cummunicable disease, chronic disease prevention, family health, and public health nursing divisions. He sits as the department's representative on the local HIV Planning Council and served as incident commander of Alameda County's Monkeypox response. He earned his PsyD in clinical psychology from Rutgers University. As a community psychologist, Dr. Ayala has focused his research on the socio- structural predictors of health, HIV service access and utilization among sexual minority men, and the comparative advantages of community-led HIV responses.

Selling point: Documents the implementation of a coordinated set of successful community-led advocacy interventions to remove barriers to HIV care for sexual and gender minority people in countries in the Caribbean and Africa Selling point: Explores the partnership dynamics of Global North-Global South collaboration Selling point: Examines the process of planning and implementing an evaluation that is appropriate to a complex human rights advocacy initiative