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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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IPAS - Global

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IPAS works globally to improve women's lives through a focus on reproductive health. Their work is based on the principle that every woman has a right to the highest attainable standard of health, to safe reproductive choices, and to high quality health care.
Communication Strategies

4 initiatives: 1) Supporting the right of each woman to control her own sexuality, fertility, health, and well-being; 2) Increasing women's access to high-quality elective abortion services; 3) Increasing women's access to high-quality post-abortion (PAC) care; and, 4) Improving medical practice by putting appropriate reproductive health technologies in the hands of skilled providers.

Development Issues

Women, family planning, health and nutrition, education.

Key Points

IPAS concentrates on preventing unsafe abortion, improving treatment of its complications, and reducing its consequences. They also provide information and guidance to international, national and community decision makers and opinion leaders, informing health policy debates by sharing lessons learned. They advise and assist groups in identifying how they can bring their capacities and resources to improve women's reproductive health. They manufacture, market and distribute reproductive health technologies, along with technical information and training assistance.

Sources

Letter from Uche Ekenna and IPAS web site.