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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at cila.comminitcila.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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Limitations of the Study [Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention Campaign]

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There are several limitations that I foresee in this study:

  1. The participant observation method I intend to employ is very time-consuming and expensive. However, coupling up with an ongoing donor assisted project should considerably lower my costs.
  2. Measurements in this study seem not to utilize a standard research tool. My intention here will be to interpret and explain rather than predict and account for variance (Reinard, 2001).
  3. Being a native of the community I intend to study, there is the risk of becoming over identified with the group. This will be hard to totally overcome but as a prudent researcher, I intend to be very careful from the onset of the project.
  4. This study, like all naturalistic studies will not on its own provide any comprehensive conclusion. However, through combinations with other later studies or many different sorts of data, it should hopefully be able to appropriately inform the communication discipline.