The Communication Initiative
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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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Many best wishes. This is a further quick, follow up to the note - SBC and Health - Knowledge Sharing There have been some further questions asking for examples of the knowledge summaries that result.

Just a few examples of the specific areas of interest include: Male engagement; Provider behaviour change; Monitoring and quality assurance; Communications and advocacy; and, Understanding Malaria. But please note that everything SBC and health related is of value and of interest!

Please submit here and click “Save” - or email Warren - in order to share your knowledge

The examples - and please do comment if you review them - follow. But please send in whatever form you can. Our editors will get back to you on any issues that arise and with draft for you to review.    

Using Marketing Science to Understand Contraceptive Demand in High-Fertility Niger (Viamo)

Tackling the Taboo: Sexuality and Gender-Transformative Programmes to End Child, Early and Forced Marriages and Unions (ICRW)

Friday Sermons, Family Planning and Gender Equity Attitudes and Actions: Evidence from Jordan (JHUCCP)

CAZ Project, Community Action against Zika - Save the Children

Risking It All for Love? Resetting Beliefs about HIV Risk among Low-Income South African Teens (ideas42)

Social and Behavior Change Indicator Bank for Family Planning (JHU CCP)

Many thanks for sharing - either directly on this form (complete the title and body fields, add an image if you wish, and click “save”) - or send an email to me with your information, and I will take it from there. For this initial request we would like to set October 31st, 2019.

Many thanks - really appreciated

Warren