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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. 

You can also follow the QR Code:

 https://redcap.link/CommunicationInitiative2026

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Community COPE: Building Partnership with the Community to Improve Health Services

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EngenderHealth's COPE® (Client-Oriented, Provider-Efficient services) is a set of tools intended to assist providers and supervisors with evaluation of the care offered in clinic and hospital settings. Using self-assessment, client interviews, client-flow analysis and facilitated discussion, staff are taught to identify areas needing attention and develop their own solutions and action plans to address the issues. Originally developed for family planning services, healthcare providers from related disciplines requested that the tools be adapted to a wider range of health services.

The Community COPE® handbook is designed to help supervisors and staff at service delivery sites build bridges with community members. The manual provides information on assessing how community members feel about the services being provided, gathering recommendations for improving services, and encouraging community members to participate in quality improvement efforts both at the site and community levels. Specific tools include interview and focus group discussion guides, participatory mapping exercises, a site walk-through guide, tools for analysing and prioritising solutions to problems, and guides for orienting site staff and local leaders to the process. Piloted in East Africa, the approach is being implemented in West Africa and the Dominican Republic.
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EngenderHealth website; and MAQ website.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 11/30/1999 - 00:00 Permalink

solicito donacion de material educativo y audivisual sobre toma de decisiones de planificacion familiar y la guia para el desarrollo de nuestras actividades de salud en nuestra area de desarrollo de Cajamarca y Zona de Chao La Libertad lo cual agradeceremos infinitamente por tan valioso apoyo.

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Ana Aguilar
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