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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.
 
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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Schools & Health Website

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"Improving the way news and information on the health, nutrition and education of school-age children around the world is disseminated remains as vital as ever." Lesley Drake, Partnership for Child Development (PCD)

The global school health and nutrition resource schoolsandhealth.org, administered by Partnership for Child Development (PCD), was recently re-launched to further the reach of school health and nutrition (SHN) documents, resources, and news to the SHN community.

"schoolsandhealth.org" was developed in 1998 as a collaboration between: World Bank, World Food Programme, World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, PCD and other partners in response to a demand for a global online portal making SHN resources easily accessible to SHN interest groups, and, in particular, to policy makers and practitioners.
 
Some selected new website features include:

  • Documents and Resource Centre: 670 resources on topics such as: "examples of good programming practice and policy, case studies, technical reviews, toolkits and guidelines, reports, surveys, advocacy tools and international declarations. Within the centre details including description, topic, title and author are outlined for each document allowing information to be easily viewed prior to download. Searches can also be categorized by SHN theme, language and year."

 

  • Updated Website Pages: The website provides  pages for relevant school health topic areas including: helminth infections, nutrition, HIV, water, hygiene and sanitation, acute respiratory infections, and malaria. Reflecting recent SHN expansion, the site now encompasses an inclusive education section.

 

  • News & Events Section: Global and country specific school health news continues to be displayed in a new format through the website’s news and events section holding almost 200 diverse SHN news articles,? which can be viewed collectively as well as in detail individually.
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Email from Charlotte Broyd to The Communication Initiative on Decdember 10 2013.