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.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at cila.comminitcila.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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Center for Health Policy & Strategic Studies - Nigeria

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CHPSS is in the process of developing (as of October 1999) a youth centered health initiative called "YOUNG 2000" (YOUth Network for Good knowledge and practices in general and reproductive health).
Communication Strategies

3 components: 1) "Youth Net-C": aimed at developing a grassroots network among adolescents and young adults (aged 15-250. The network will distribute condoms and disseminate focussed but simple information packages on safe and responsible reproductive knowledge, habits and practices in secondary and tertiary institutions throughout Nigeria; 2) "Youth Edition": made up on 15 22 minute recorded radio shows to be broadcast on popular local and national stations. The show, in regular and "pigdin" English, targets youth for the propagation of safe and responsible sexual knowledge, habits and practices in youths; 3) "Youth Advocates Network for better health in Nigeria": engineered as an advocacy/pressure group demanding for accountability and better health programmes from local, state and federal legislators and executives.
Development Issues

Youth, children, rights, family planning, hiv/aids, health, education.
Key Points

CHPSS is a Nigerian health NGO with a special interest in health system research, health sector reform and country-wide advocacy for better health. They have ongoing community-centered research to establish health seeking preferences and practices of rural, urban and peri-urban Nigerians with view to identifying impediments to the achievement of better health in the citizenry. Their major advocacy thrust is centered on community-wide adoption of health insurance as a platform to promote easy access to equitable and basic health care.
Partners



CHPSS is currently (Oct. 1999) seeking partners.

Sources

Letter from Akintola Odutola to The Communication Initiative.