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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. 

You can also follow the QR Code:

 https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026

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Alive & Thrive (A&T) Small Grants Program

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The A&T Small Grants Program aims to fund operational research projects that will identify novel approaches and overcome key barriers to improving infant and young child feeding (IYCF) at scale in low-income countries. Awards for small grants will generally be in the range of US$50,000-100,000.

Grant activities can include formal research studies, development and evaluation of pilot programmes, operational research, testing of novel public-private partnerships, evaluation of various approaches to removing obstacles to improved IYCF at the country level, and related work. Add-ons to ongoing larger projects are allowable. All applications will need to specify how the success of the project will be evaluated.

Grants can be awarded to any organisation with a demonstrated interest and commitment to improving IYCF practices, including research organisations, non-government organisations, public (e.g. government) institutions, and private sector organisations. All recipients must have prior experience conducting relevant IYCF activities and must demonstrate prior experience in efficient and effective fiscal management. In the case of partnerships, a lead organisation should be identified that meets these criteria and can submit the letter of interest (LOI) as the prime applicant.

Application Info

Grants will be awarded to successful applications during a two-step application process that begins with the submission of an LOI. Selected applicants will be asked to submit a full proposal. The LOIs and full proposals will be evaluated by the A&T Technical Advisory Group. Email a cover letter and LOI application to ATresearch@ucdavis.edu
More information in PDF format is available upon request by email.

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Press release from Kathryn G. Dewey through the CORE CS Community Listserv on July 21 2009.

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