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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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HORIZON International Solutions Clubs - Global

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The purpose of the Clubs is to join people together in cooperation with HORIZON to find, encourage and develop solutions to problems in health, environment, population, and development that exist throughout the world and to help empower children, youth, young professionals, and others through their participation as HORIZON Solutions Site users, interns, research fellows and volunteers.
Communication Strategies

The nature of the Clubs is participatory development through communication.
Development Issues

Anything that comes up in discussions through the HORIZON Solutions Site or Solutions Site for Kids. Focus is on empowerment of children and youth.
Key Points

Working with more than 130 other organisations, HORIZON makes available the knowledge of peer-reviewed solutions via the use of different forms of media (television, Internet) so that the solutions may be economically replicated wherever they may be necessary or useful. The solutions are for the benefit of people of all ages, from industrial leaders to micro-entrepreneurs, from agricultural experts to small scale farmers, from wildlife preservationists to marine ecologists, from public health workers to family planning experts, from government decision makers to educators, and from young children to the elderly.The Club initiative's main aim is to further increase HORIZON's effectiveness in its outreach through the HORIZON Solutions Site, the HORIZON Solutions Site Kids of All Ages feature of the Site, television programs and other multimedia outreach, participation in international conferences and seminars and its participation with organizations, museums, educational institutions, and other entities.
Partners



United Nations entities, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Yale University.

Sources

Letter from Janine M. H. Selendy dated April 5 2001.