The Communication Initiative
Development action with informed and engaged societies
The Communication Initiative

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

Time to read
1 minute
Print
a- a+
Published 13 years ago
Last updated 1 year ago
Read so far

Early Childhood Care and Development in Emergency Situations

1 comment

Author

  • Jacqueline Hayden
  • Rosemary Dunn
  • Kathy Cologon

This annotated bibliography reflects the findings from a scoping exercise to identify the published research in English about children under 10 years of age in emergency and disaster situations. It includes a focus on Australia. It was prepared at the Children and Families Research Centre, Macquarie University, Australia, for the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), the Early Childhood in Emergencies Working Group (EEWG), and the Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development (CGECCD).

The research documents are listed thematically according to the following groupings:

  1. "Need: articles that identify the needs of children in emergency and disaster situations, including global statistics.
  2. Interventions: articles that describe interventions and outcomes:
    • art therapy
    • child friendly spaces
    • classroom based interventions (CBI)/school based interventions
    • community based interventions
    • health
    • play based/therapy interventions
    • intervention policy
    • post traumatic stress symptoms and interventions
    • psychosocial symptoms and interventions
  3. Type: articles that report on issues and outcomes for young children according to type of emergency/disaster.
    • Human Conflict
      1. armed conflict & social unrest
      2. terrorism
    • Other Disasters
      1. earthquake
      2. fire
      3. flood
      4. industrial/man made
      5. nutrition
      6. storm events (hurricane, cyclone, tornado)
      7. tsunami
  4. Curricula, resources, training, and dissemination of information: articles that describe programs and issues relating to training of caregivers or others in emergency/disaster situations and to issues relating to the dissemination of information about the needs of young children.
  5. Research: articles that discuss research issues associated with young children and emergency/disaster situations.
  6. Review articles: articles that provide overviews of the current literature or state of knowledge about various topics.
  7. Special Groups: articles that address the needs of specific populations:
    • Prenatal Exposure to Disasters
    • Prenatal Needs
    • 0-3 years age group
    • 4-8 years age group
    • Women
    • Parents & Carers
    • Older People
  8. Australian research: articles that emanate from Australian research projects and/or by Australian authors."
Publication Date
Number of Pages

111

Source

The Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development (CGECCD) website, October 18 2012. Image credit: Save the Children, China

Comments

Submitted by jturner277 on Sun, 12/30/2012 - 21:58 Permalink

During emergencies or natural disaster periods we have been witnessed a number of falls and changes taken place in the society, so to overcome from these changes and falls government authority and non profitable organizations are took beneficial steps which are able to help the victims during emergencies. Here in the above article we have been noticed that organizations like Early Childhood in Emergencies Working Group (EEWG) has support and offers reliable policies to develop the skills and situation of kids especially under these circumstances. I was really appreciating the whole effort of this organization which contributes valuable parts towards the society without any profits in return.

urgent care now