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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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Bush Radio HIV/HOP Project - South Africa

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An initiative focused on outreach to youth on issues of prevention of HIV/AIDS.
Communication Strategies



The HIV / HOP project at Bush Radio kicked off with a Concert on March 18, 2000. The Youth Against AIDS (YAA) 2000 Concert involved both Bush Radio's SACRAI (South African Community Radio Aids Initiative) and the YAA 2000 programmes that involves organisations from around the country dealing with HIV / AIDS. Phase 1 saw a group of 40 high school students from various schools in the Cape come for training at the Bush Radio training Centre in preparation for the concert. A month of on air talk shows, hosted by the students, was part of this. Phase 2 saw a programme developer and 4 young people from the Hip Hop community spend 3 months at Bush Radio, designing programmes that will carry an HIV / AIDS message to the youth in the townships. The programme has an on air component that runs on Tuesday afternoons and Friday evenings for 3 hours each.

Development Issues



Youth, HIV/AIDS.

Key Points



Already some very interesting lessons were learned on how the youth in South African communities view issues regarding HIV/AIDS. A CD will accompany the final report that will be available at the end of July 2000. The team that worked on the programme will be attending a seminar in Amsterdam on September 23 to outline the the project and be part of an evaluation process.

Partners



Phase 1 was sponsored by Radio Netherlands. Phase 2 was sponsored by NiZA (Nederlandse instituut Voor Zuid Afrika).

Sources

Letter from Zane Ibrahim to The Communication Initiative.