The Communication Initiative
Development action with informed and engaged societies
The Communication Initiative
As of March 15 2025, The Communication Initiative (The CI) platform is operating at a reduced level, with no new content being posted to the global website and registration/login functions disabled. (La Iniciativa de Comunicación, or CILA, will keep running.) While many interactive functions are no longer available, The CI platform remains open for public use, with all content accessible and searchable until the end of 2025. 

Please note that some links within our knowledge summaries may be broken due to changes in external websites. The denial of access to the USAID website has, for instance, left many links broken. We can only hope that these valuable resources will be made available again soon. In the meantime, our summaries may help you by gleaning key insights from those resources. 

A heartfelt thank you to our network for your support and the invaluable work you do.

Community Engagement Playbook: A Guide to Working with Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa

9 months ago Network Contact IDEO

"One major thing that community engagement has brought is building trust even before we go to the field to meet them, for interviews.

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Publishers

Number of Pages
62
Source

IDEO website, February 18 2025. Image credit: IDEO

Reconceptualising Communication for Development: A Critical Appraisal of the Field

9 months ago Network Contact ValentinaB

Author

  • Dr. Valentina Baú, Guest Editor

"Communication for development (C4D) was defined by the World Congress on Communication for Development as '...a social process based on dialogue using a broad range of tools and methods.

Publishers

Source

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) website, February 12 2025. Image credit: Juan Arredondo/Getty Images/Images of Empowerment - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Practice Insights Issue 21: Culture and Community Development

9 months ago Network Contact Judi Aubel - T…

Author

  • Daniel Muia, Ed.
  • Judi Aubel, Ed.

"Communities exist and thrive because of the anchor provided to them by culturally defined values, roles, customs, traditions, beliefs that are systematically enforced by families and communiti

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Publishers

Number of Pages
28
Source

"From the Editors", by Daniel Muia and Judi Aubel - sent via email from Judi Aubel to The Communication Initiative on January 16 2025. Image credit: Grandmother Project

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