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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RBM (Roll Back Malaria) Toolbox

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To strengthen malaria-endemic country capacity, the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership is offering, through the RBM Toolbox, existing "tools" (broadly defined) to help national programme managers, their teams, and their collaborating partners to improve programme action and performance. The RBM Partnership seeks systematised, easy-to-use, and publicly accessible tools for capturing and disseminating proven practices so that successes in the field can be shared widely and replicated.

This Toolbox section of the RBM website is intended to be a sharing opportunity for all partners. As stated on the website: "Please use the contact information provided with each tool to get additional information on appropriate use and to provide feed-back about experiences with the tool. The initial set of tools found here will benefit greatly from use, adaptation, improvement and further refining and sharing. Please share additional tools that you think might be of interest to partners by using the "submit a tool" button on the upper left of the page."

The Toolbox is organised into seven Categories of the programming cycle for malaria control; these are further divided into Key Areas where the tools are most appropriately aligned.

The categories are as follows:

  • Policies and Strategies
  • Advocacy and Communication
  • Assessing and Planning
  • Resourcing and Mobilisation
  • Assessing and Planning
  • Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Implementation of Interventions
Languages

English, French

Source

Roll Back Malaria website accessed on September 17 2009.