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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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Advocating for Adolescent Reproductive Health in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

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  • Anika Penn, edited by Sue Alford
This 56-page toolkit is designed to help young people develop the skills to advocate for young people’s sexual health education and services in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It describes some of the steps needed in organising campaigns and provides information on developing, implementing, and evaluating a successful advocacy strategy.

The tool kit offers some examples of strategies and activities undertaken by reproductive health advocates and seeks to provide guidance, stimulate ideas, and generate new contacts among fellow youth activists from around the world.

Case studies referenced in this resource include:
  • Association Against AIDS in Romania
  • Romanian NGO Reproductive Health Coalition
  • Moldovan Family Planning Association
  • Bosnian Coalition’s Youth Information Centers
  • Latvian Family Planning Association
  • Bulgarian Family Planning Association
Number of Pages
56
Source

YouthNet, Youth InfoNet, April 2005.

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http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/advocate_eeca.pdf