If you or colleagues are attending the International HIV/AIDS Conference in Mexico City next week, join David Devlin-Foltz and a terrific group of international panelists for a workshop Monday from 2:30 - 6:00 PM in SBR8 on "The Challenges of Monitoring and Evaluating Community Sector Advocacy."

This semi-annual conference has become a global agenda-setting event (Measha Brueggergosman performance at the 2006 International HIV/AIDS conference in Toronto pictured above to prove it). The Monday session should be an illuminating look at real-world advocacy evaluation scenarios from around the globe; the conversation will bring in representatives from advocacy projects in Argentina, Vietnam, Ecuador and Costa Rica, among others. Slowly but surely, the GII, along with many other players, is helping to build an international community of practice in the field of advocacy evaluation. More next week.