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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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EDUCAIDS Resource Pack

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Led by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), with the collaboration of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Committee of Cosponsoring Organizations (CCO), governments, UN partners, and civil society organisations, this group of online documents seeks to promote, develop, and support comprehensive education sector responses to HIV and AIDS.

 

Recognising the vital role of the education sector in the national response to AIDS, the UNAIDS Committee of Cosponsoring Organizations (CCO) launched EDUCAIDS in March 2004. EDUCAIDS has also been designated by UNESCO’s Executive Board as one of three core UNESCO initiatives to achieve Education for All (EFA). EDUCAIDS has two primary goals:

  • To prevent the spread of HIV through education; and
  • To protect the core functions of the education system from the worst effects of the epidemic.

 

Through EDUCAIDS, UNESCO and its partners support efforts at the country level to promote comprehensive education sector responses to HIV and AIDS; plan and prioritise actions; and build partnerships and promote coordination. This resource pack is designed to support ministries of education and other stakeholders at the country level. It aims to give technical guidance on developing and implementing policies, determining resource allocations, and implementing programmes for education and HIV.

 

It includes:

  • EDUCAIDS Framework for Action, which outlines five specific components of comprehensive education sector responses to HIV and AIDS implementation support available through the EDUCAIDS initiative.
  • EDUCAIDS Technical Briefs, which includes 35 two-page summaries of key issues related to an education sector response. Each brief can be used as a stand-alone reference, and together they offer guidelines on the continuum of activities required to respond to the epidemic at the country level.
  • EDUCAIDS Overviews of Practical Resources, which provide guidance on the technical and operational aspects of the response. Each Overview is introduced by a resource summary list and is followed by a two-page analysis of the included resources identifying crucial resource gaps, needs for further research, and additional online resources.

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Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

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Email from Scheherazade Feddal to The Communication Initiative on March 13 2009.

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Click here to access The EDUCAIDS Framework for Action in PDF format.
Click here to access EDUCAIDS Technical Briefs in PDF format.
Click here to access EDUCAIDS Overviews of Practical Resources in PDF format.