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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WASH Training Package for Prevention of Diarrheal Disease

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The "Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene [WASH] Improvement Training Package for the Prevention of Diarrheal Disease," provides information for organisations worldwide that seek to add WASH activities to their current programmes or to start a diarrhoea reduction programme. It is intended to support the training of local outreach workers and their work in communities to promote improved WASH practices to reduce diarrhoea. The Training Package consists of three separate parts:

  1. a step-by-step "Guide for Training Outreach Workers";
  2. an "Outreach Worker’s Handbook" for community outreach workers to use during and after training; and
  3. a "Collection of Resource Materials" to use as a source for visual aids.



To request a free copy of the WASH Training Package on CD-Rom, please send an email to hip@aed.org

Also, the following information, education, and communication (IEC) posters and an assessment tool in PDF format are available here:

  • Assessment Tool Household Water
  • Faeces Management Poster
  • When Do We Wash Our Hands Poster
  • How Do We Wash Our Hands Poster
  • How Do We Take Care of Our Drinking and Cooking Water Poster
  • SODIS Method to Treat Water Poster (Editor's note: Solar water disinfection - the SODIS-method - is a  procedure to disinfect drinking water. Contaminated water is filled in a transparent PET-bottle or glass bottle and exposed to the sun for 6 hours. During this time, the UV-radiation of the sun kills diarrhoea-generating pathogens. From the SODIS website)
  • How Do We Boil Water Poster
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Email from Patricia Mantey to The Communication Initiative on November 6 2009 and on January 11 2010.