In 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded Project PrIDE, a national initiative to implement and evaluate demonstration projects to increase PrEP uptake among HIV-negative individuals and to re-engage HIV-positive individuals in HIV care. Our team served as the Evaluation Center for Project PrIDE organizations in Chicago and used an empowerment evaluation (EE) approach to enhance evaluation capacity at these organizations. To evaluate our approach, we assessed organizations' evaluation capacity and engagement in technical assistance and capacity building activities in 2016 and 2018. Respondents who self-reported higher engagement with the Evaluation Center and who spent a greater number of hours engaged with our evaluators experienced greater increases in evaluation capacity tied to implementation of evaluation activities and technical assistance utilization. These findings demonstrate that multisite EE can be successfully applied to increase the evaluation capacity of organizations providing both HIV prevention and care services.

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应用多站点赋权评估方法来提高HIV服务提供商的评估能力：芝加哥项目自豪感的结果

2015年，疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）资助了PRIDE项目，这是一项全国性计划，旨在实施和评估示范项目，以增加HIV阴性个体对PrEP的吸收，并使HIV阳性个体重新参与HIV护理。我们的团队曾担任芝加哥Project PrIDE组织的评估中心，并使用授权评估（EE）方法来增强这些组织的评估能力。为了评估我们的方法，我们评估了组织在2016年和2018年的评估能力以及参与技术援助和能力建设活动的能力。自我报告称与评估中心有更高参与度并与我们的评估员有更多时间互动的受访者，与执行评估活动和利用技术援助有关的评估能力有了更大的提高。这些发现表明，多站点EE可以成功地用于提高提供HIV预防和护理服务的组织的评估能力。