The Communication Initiative brings together the people and organisations working in communication and media for development to share, review, debate and learn from their own insights and experiences. It is a network that includes:
...75,000+ registered individuals growing at 20 to 40 per day
...from 200+ countries and territories

...across the full range of development actors from governments, UN and bilateral agencies to local organizations, foundations and academia
...taking action across all major development issues including Poverty, HIV/AIDS, Gender, Education, Environment, Media, Freedom of Expression, Democratic Governance

This network is supported by:
...a sophisticated web platform that received over 2.5 million individual user sessions and 5 million page views last year and these numbers are growing
...35,000+ knowledge summaries with the contacts people need to improve their work in areas as diverse as impact and monitoring, programme development, strategic thinking and research, planning and a range of training and events opportunities

The Communication Initiative

The Communication Initiative is a social enterprise incorporated under the Companies Act of the Government of the province of British Columbia in Canada with the number 580915. Further information about The Communication Initiative can be seen in this site section: About The CI .

For more information or to respond to any questions please contact

Warren Feek

Executive Director

The Communication Initiative

wfeek@comminit.com

...a series of e-magasines such as The Drum Beat with 44,000 subscribers.

Anyone can join the network without cost, access The CIs full range of resources and engage with other members through polls, peer review, forums, content submission and shared contact information. All of this brings together a large and diverse group of actors in pursuit of their own priorities but sharing the objective of improving the effectiveness of their work.

Becoming a CI Associate will help ensure that this network continues to grow and expand its capacity to improve the effectiveness of international development through media and communication for development. Each Associate’s contribution supports the network, and benefits everyone through more effective development action.