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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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International Center of Education and Human Development/Fundación Centro Internacional de Educación y Desarrollo Humano (CINDE)

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The main focal point of the Fundación Centro Internacional de Educación y Desarrollo Humano (CINDE)/International Center of Education and Human Development is on promoting the creation of an appropriate environment for the integral development of children and youth living in conditions of vulnerability in Colombia, Latin America, and the world, through work with families, communities, and educational institutions.

Communication Strategies

Among the advocacy activities of CINDE is the dissemination of information and experiences that contribute to strengthening the capacity of civil society and States in the construction and development of policies and programmes for children. It serves as a a centre for research and sustainable development, which influences the formulation and operalisation of policies in favour of integral development for the promotion and implementation of the rights of children and youth.

 

Some of its programmes for early childhood are:

 

  • Growing Family Programme: a training for parents and others interested in improving their skills for raising children.
  • Learn to Learn Programme: a school-based approach that aims improve the quality of education in preschool and elementary school, encouraging children through games and cognitive impact on their motivation to learn.
  • Play and Learn to Think Programme: for parents, educators, and adults in charge of children from 2 years and younger, designed to develop in children the potential of logical thinking, creativity, and self-concept, as well as improve interactions of adults with children.
  • Children and Young Peacebuilders Programme: Part of the search for the root cause of violence in Colombia and for solutions, this initiative is designed to express the voice and words of children and young people. It seeks to understand how they perceive violence and, then, to develop an educational process aimed at empowering them to develop their potential emotional, communicative, creative, ethical, and political thinking on the issue.
Development Issues

Children, development, rights, education.

Key Points

The Foundation CINDE is an organisation founded in 1977 in Colombia, based in the cities of Bogota, Medellin, and Manizales, Colombia. It is the Latin American headquarters of the Consultative Group on Care and Early Childhood Development, Centre for UNESCO [United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization] Cooperating with Children and Family work, and serves as the Technical Secretariat of the Early Childhood Advisory Group Network in Latin America.

Sources

CINDE Foundation website, January 31 2013.