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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Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) for Community-Based Volunteers: Volunteer Toolkit

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This volunteer toolkit contains technical materials needed to conduct training for community-based volunteers involved in behaviour change for malaria prevention and control. It is part of a set of publications produced by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to provide a training package for facilitators, supervisors, and volunteers involved in malaria work. The Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) toolkit comprises two manuals - one for volunteers and one for trainers - which together include all the instructions and technical materials needed to conduct a three day training course for trainers (ToT) and a two day training course for community-based volunteers on BCC.

The Volunteer toolkit contains key messages, short guides, and other tools that will be handed out to training participants and used by volunteers to help them conduct BCC activities in their own community. The Volunteer toolkit includes the following sections.
  • Session 1: Introductory session
  • Session 2: Introduction to behaviour change communication (BCC)
  • Session 3: Developing messages
  • Session 4: Methods Part 1: Health talks, cue cards and demonstrations
  • Session 5: Methods Part 2: Short plays and songs
  • Session 6: Methods Part 3: Home visits to deliver health messages
  • Session 7: Group project and presentations
The Training Toolkit is not available online and can be requested from the IFRC at the contacts below.
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Languages

English

Number of Pages

24

Source

Roll Back malaria website on October 30 2011.