Development action with informed and engaged societies

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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Teachers' Exercise Book for HIV Prevention

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This booklet contains participatory learning activities that were designed by African teachers to help educate about preventing HIV infection and related discrimination. It includes participatory learning activities to help acquire knowledge, build skills, avoid HIV infection and advocate for effective HIV prevention efforts in schools. The manual aims to provide teacher trade union leaders, their constituency, and teachers with a sustainable product they can use in their countries to strengthen school health programmes, in general, and to prevent HIV infection, in particular. Each activity also contains information to help teachers help others to learn to implement these activities. The publication also provides a series of fact sheets for reference.

This publication is part of a World Health Organisation (WHO) series that aims to provide arguments that can be used to gain support for addressing important health issues in schools. The series illustrates how selected health issues can serve as entry points in planning, implementing, and evaluating health interventions as part of the development of a health-promoting school.
Languages
English, French
Number of Pages
217
Source

WHO website, March 30 2006.