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This Resource Estimation Tool for Advocacy (RETA) User's Guide is a companion to RETA. RETA is a Microsoft Office Excel-based tool that will help you calculate the resources you need to implement the Comprehensive Package of HIV Prevention Services for Men Who Have Sex with Men. The guide is written for groups that want to use RETA to conduct simple resource needs estimations, such as advocates and managers employed by national programs, community-based organizations (CBO), and other local/international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs/INGOs). For example, several local NGOs may initially work together to collect the information needed to use RETA and then, afterwards, join with the government to advocate for increased resources for HIV prevention programs in the area. Similarly, local NGOs and government could use the tool together to advocate for increased resources from national-level program planners or donors. This guide provides an introduction to RETA and detailed, step-by-step instructions for using it. By reading the guide, you learn how to set up and operate the tool so that it produces useful estimates that can help you plan and advocate better.