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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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Anti-Trafficking Programs in South Asia: Appropriate Activities, Indicators and Evaluation Methodologies

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The Population Council, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) led a highly participatory approach to explore appropriate activities that address the problem of human trafficking in South Asia. A Technical Consultative Meeting was held in Kathmandu, Nepal September 11-13, 2001 to discuss these issues. Approximately 50 representatives from South Asian institutions, United Nations agencies, and international and local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) attended the meeting.

The meeting was structured around three practical objectives:
  1. To clarify conceptual frameworks used to define trafficking.
  2. To identify actual and potential intervention models for the South Asian context that: a) protect the rights of trafficked persons, and b) empower current and returned trafficked persons and persons who are vulnerable to trafficking.
  3. To identify programme evaluation methodologies to measure the performance and impact of programmatic interventions.

This report summarises the principal points from each of the papers and captures some of the discussion points that emerged from each panel presentation.

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