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The Communication Initiative

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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Our Sexual Reproductive Health, Our Rights - Leaflet

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Published by the Action Institute for Environmental Health and Development Communication (Action IEHDC), this leaflet is intended for sex workers and truck drivers mainly in the border towns of Zimbabwe. It seeks to raise awareness of risky sexual behaviour and promote health seeking behaviour by offering information on safer sex and the sexual and reproductive health and rights of sex workers. The booklet also encourages readers to visit the Wellness Centres at border posts and lists the kinds of services offered at these centres. Finally, it provides a list of organisations that support the health and welfare of sex workers and mobile populations around border communities.

The leaflet forms part of the Soul City Regional Programme on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, which is working to intensify cross border social and behaviour change communication (SBCC) interventions with a particular focus on high-risk groups such as sex workers, truckers, and migrant populations. The programme is an initiative of the Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication and 7 regional partners and is funded by the Sweden and Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad).

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Email from Tafadzwa Madondo of Soul City to Soul Beat Africa on December 17 2014.

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