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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. 

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

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 https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026

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Monitoring HIV/AIDS Programs: A Facilitator's Training Guide

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Published by Family Health International (FHI), this publication is an instructional course designed to build skills to conduct high quality monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities. The training course is made up of three compulsory core modules followed by seven optional technical area modules. Each module includes both a facilitator's guide and participant guide and is available for download in PDF format.

The seven technical modules cover home-based care, behaviour change communication, sexually transmitted infections, voluntary counseling and testing, orphans and vulnerable children, clinical care, and prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission.

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This modular monitoring and evaluation training course is intended for use in training both FHI country program staff and implementing partner staff, with the overall goal of building and enhancing the skills required to conduct and carry out quality monitoring and evaluation activities. Ultimately, this will lead to improved programs whose goals are to prevent the spread of HIV and to provide care and support to those already infected with HIV.

...It is [FHI's] hope that by using this modular M&E training package, training participants will be able to:
  • Distinguish between process-, outcome-, and impact-level evaluations;
  • Explain the different monitoring and evaluation conceptual approaches and frameworks;
  • Identify key stakeholders in program monitoring and evaluation;
  • Identify methods for overcoming barriers to effective monitoring and evaluation;
  • Identify appropriate indicators for each technical area;
  • Design systems to manage and use data and provide feedback to appropriate staff;
  • Apply general monitoring and evaluation concepts and methods to specific technical areas;
  • (e.g., HBC, STI, BCC, VCT, OVC, PMTCT, and clinical care) and to overall program management;
  • Design country/site-specific monitoring flow process based on organizational structure (e.g., single country office, field office, or regional office);
  • Design and implement a monitoring and evaluation work plan for a country/site program, taking into consideration donor requirements.
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 02/05/2005 - 03:32 Permalink

excuse me, but do you have any of those bands everyones got, any to do with orphans???

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 02/05/2005 - 03:32 Permalink

do u have any of those bands for ur wrist for orpans or sumthin to do with children??

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 10/01/2005 - 06:06 Permalink

this page is so useful. may you please keep us up dated with any new developments in the field of M&E of HIV/AIDS?
Thanks alot.
Mugerwa George
mugerwageorge@yahoo.co.uk

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 04/21/2009 - 04:19 Permalink

This document helped me greatly. I now understand what M & E is all about.

I want to download both the participants and facilitators modules.

Saba'atu