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The Communication Initiative

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. 

On the transfer, co-founder Victoria Martin expressed her pleasure to see this work continue under Wits' leadership, knowing that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction. 

As Wits, we honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades and look forward building from that strong base. This includes co-founders Warren Feek (1953-2024) and Victoria Martin as well as La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA), which continues independently at lainiciativadecomunicacion.com with links to The CI Global site. We are also eager to forge new partnerships and entertain new ideas as we consider how best to contribute to social and behaviour change in our rapidly evolving environment.

If you are joining the International Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) Summit in Panama, please join Wits and CILA on Monday, 22 June, to share your thoughts and suggestion for the relaunch of the Communication Initiative. We will be in Pacifica 5 from 12-1:25 for the Refuel, Reflect, and Renew Lunch Series: The Communication Initiative: celebrating a driving force for Communication for Social Change and the way forward. We will reflect on the legacy of Warren Feek and family in creating the Communication Initiative, consider the contributions of CI over the years and then turn our attention towards the future in this dynamic session. 

If you are unable to join us in Panama, we still want to hear from you. Please contribute your thoughts by following this link: https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026 or reaching out to ci_surveys@commint.com. 

You can also follow the QR Code:

 https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026

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Request for Proposals to Document Contributions of NGOs and Civil Society to Polio Eradication and the Potential for NGOs and Civil Society to Address Other Health Priorities through Community-based Approaches

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The CORE Group Polio Project (CGPP) is inviting front-line practitioners, non-governmental organisation (NGO) staff, academics, researchers, and others to author scholarly research articles documenting the contributions of NGOs/civil society and CGPP member NGOs to polio eradication. They hope to publish 10 such articles in a peer-reviewed, open-access journal as a way of sharing critical lessons learned in the past 18 years, highlighting successes, and promoting the tools, strategies, and innovations developed by CGPP that have relevance for control of other important diseases.

The deadline is March 17, 2017.

Applicants should present a 2-page proposal detailing the main objective of the paper, research methods to be used, available data for analysis, and a brief biography. All proposals and papers must be submitted in English. Applicants must adhere to the journal standards, requirements, and deadlines (CGPP staff will provide guidance to achieve the objective of the open-access publication). A grant of US$1,500 will be awarded to each author selected for participation who submits a paper satisfactory for submission to a peer-reviewed journal.

For more information you can go to:

https://www.comminit.com/polio/content/request-proposals-CGPP