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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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Annexes to: Perceptions of Influence: Understanding Attitudes to Polio Vaccination and Immunisation in Northern Nigeria - Main Research Report

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This page provides a list with brief descriptions of the 7 annexes. It describes a pilot investigation designed to understand attitudes to polio vaccination and immunisation in Northern Nigeria. As can be learned about in more detail here, the purpose of the research was to demonstrate the potential of field research to explore and explain deep-rooted and interconnected factors shaping people's health-related behaviour and attitudes to mass vaccine programmes like the Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI). The goal is to help safeguard the gains of the polio programme and to sustain high levels of routine immunisation (RI) coverage as part of the PEI legacy.

The annexes to the research paper include:

  • Annex a: Research Governance and Participation - outlines the structure of research oversight and governance and the principal participating/consultative research contributors.
  • Annex b: Detailed methodology - describes: the research rationale ("[u]derstanding and reducing the rate of missed children is the key to successful mass vaccination and eradication programmes"); the research hypotheses; research sites and sample selection (featuring 12 maps); the household survey; the quantitative and qualitative data; implementation of the final survey questionnaire; and limitations of the research.
  • Annex c: Demographic and socioeconomic profile of sample.
  • Annex d: State-specific analysis breakdown for sampled areas of Sokoto, Kano, and Bauchi: "These state-level observations should be read in conjunction with the main body of the research report. The thematic areas of state-level data and interpretation are set out in a format which mirrors that main report." Topics covered in this annex include: missed children, OPV (oral polio vaccine) refusal, and intra-household dynamics; settlements and "clustered" refusal risk; vaccine and immunisation knowledge; wealth, health, and education; religiosity; trust in government; and community participation/cohesion.
  • Annex e: Ethical approval from the Nigerian Health Research Ethics Committee (NHREC).
  • Annex f: Composite variables indices - includes components of: household wealth index, vaccine knowledge index, health experience index, intensity of religious observation index, and community participation index.
  • Annex g: Data analysis and analytical methodology.

Click here to access the annexes as a Word document.
Click here to access the full report in PDF format.