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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

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 https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026

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A Training of Trainer's Facilitation Guide on Strategic Communication and HIV and AIDS

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The African Network for Strategic Communication in Health and Development (AfriComNet), in partnership with the Health Communication Partnership (HCP), a project of Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Center for Communication Programs (CCP), has developed a toolkit designed to assist AfriComNet members and their partners to facilitate a 5-day training which covers:
  • the basics of strategic health communication;
  • the basics of HIV and AIDS;
  • the principles and practices of adult education; and
  • facilitation skills.
The goal of this training is to foster continuous learning so that trainers continually improve the way they enable their learners to better analyse, design, develop, implement, and evaluate health communication interventions and programmes. The guide is designed to be used with the presentations, handouts, and further readings that have been developed.

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AfriComNet website on March 16 2009.