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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

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NEPAD CTA Photo Contest

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The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Agency and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) are jointly organising a photo competition under the theme; “Looking at ICTs, agriculture, entrepreneurship and climate change in Africa through the eyes of women and the youth”. The awards aim to recognise excellence across a number of categories centred on the attraction, retention, and progression of women’s and African talents to further the African development agenda.

The contest is open to photographers of African nationality at least 18 years of age who want to demonstrate their abilities by examining the issues of Africa’s development in the areas of: Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs); Agriculture and Food Security and; Climate Change.

Category 01 – Youth/women, ICTs and entrepreneurship
Photos in Africa that depict youth or women making use of ICTs in entrepreneurial contexts in the agricultural sector.

Category 02 – Youth/Women and climate change
Photos in Africa that depict youth or women making use of ICTs in the context of climate change adaptation / mitigation and risk management

For each African region (Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa), the best photo of each category will receive a prize of EU800. The winning photographs will be on display at a NEPAD’s 10th Anniversary meeting to be held in October 2011 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The winners of each category will be awarded at the opening ceremony of that meeting.

The photo contest is open to amateur and professional photographers.

Application Info

Click here for more information and access to submission forms in MS Word format.

Click here for more information on the NEPAD website.

 

Contest rules include the following:

  • Submit photographs and descriptive data using the following email: photo-contest@cta.int
  • You may submit up to 3 photos per category.
  • Submissions must consist in original files of camera-made digital photographs three (3) megapixels or larger in JPEG, JPG, or TIFF formats.
  • Submissions of photographs should be accompanied by a completed submission form.
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Posting by Aretha Mutumwinka on Web2forDev listserv July 15 2011.