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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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The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), with the support of Johnson & Johnson, is hosting a contest to recognise "the best media coverage of maternal and child health and other urgent health matters such as Ebola and vaccination" in Sub-Saharan Africa and the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China). Journalists from these countries are invited to submit their work for consideration. Possible topics include: reducing maternal, infant, and child mortality; reducing disease transmission from mother to child; prevention of malnutrition; improving delivery of care and infrastructure for maternal and child health; innovative approaches to delivery of vaccines; and responses to the Ebola epidemic.

One winner from each region will be selected. Each winner will receive a cash prize and a 10-day study tour to the United States.

Click here for more information about the contest.

Application Info

ICFJ invites print, broadcast, and online journalists in Brazil, China, India, Russia, and Sub-Saharan Africa to submit their work. The contest is also open to affiliated freelance journalists. Submitted work must have appeared in a media outlet based in one of the regions and may be in English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, or Hindi. Works in any other languages must include an English translation.

Entries must have been published or aired between December 1 2014 and May 24 2015 and may include feature articles, in-depth, investigative, or explanatory stories, multimedia reports, documentaries, or discussion programmes.

Click here to submit in English.

Click here to submit in French.

Click here to submit in Portuguese.

Click here to submit in Russian.

Click here to submit in Chinese.

Click here to submit in Hindi.

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IJ Net website and International Center for Journalists website on April 28 2015.


Image credit/caption: Aaron Thompson - The 2014 contest winners with Danielle J. Devine, vice president of corporate communication for Johnson & Johnson (left), and ICFJ president Joyce Barnathan (right).