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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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Child Migration Research Network

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This resource is the website of the Child Migration Research Network (CMRN), which was established to help assess the impact of migration on children and youth. The aim of the CMRN is to bring together researchers who look at how migration affects children and to highlight research work, especially that in grey literature or other hard-to-reach sources, that focuses on this area. The CMRN is run by the Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

The CMRN's work currently focuses on further investigation of girls' migration in developing countries, with research findings intended to inform migration and social protection policy recommendations. Past work has included research on the independent migration of children and youth, bringing together researchers and practitioners working with children affected by migration.

The principal themes of the CMRN are:

  • Independent Child Migration;
  • Children Left Behind; and
  • Migration with Families


Each resource is categorised by main themes, sub themes, tertiary themes, and key words. The "What's new" page shows the latest resources to be added to the database, whether a document, event, or researcher's details. This website also includes access to research on the following migration themes:

  • Internal
  • South-North
  • South-South
  • Asylum -Refugees
  • Economic
  • Forced Migration
  • Fostering
  • Reunification
  • Rural-Rural
  • Rural-Urban
  • Urban-Rural
  • Urban-Urban

A search function on the site provides summaries of and links to downloads of documents such as "Assessment on the Situation of Iraqi Refugees in Syria", which shows that (at the time of this report) there are as many as 30% of Iraqi children between the age of 6 and 11 are not enrolled in schools - mostly due to poverty and insecure legal status. The report also provides evidence from focus group discussions and discussions with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that these refugee children are increasingly getting involved in the informal labour market.

Source

The Child Migration Research Network website, February 20 2013 and September 10 2015.