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Partners

The Communication Initiative (The CI) Partners are both Strategic and Funding Partners. The Partners meet once a year with The CI team to guide the strategic direction of the organisation. Below you will find a complete list of current Partners of The CI.

To access work by The CI Partners that is summarised on The CI website, please see the links included below each partner description.

Agencia de Noticias dos Direitos da Infancia (ANDI) [News Agency for Children's Rights] - an organisation in Brazil seeking to improve the quality of public information related to issues that are decisive in promoting the rights of children and adolescents, so that they are included as a priority in the agenda for human and social development. ANDI works to foster and support a systematic and ethically-based dialogue between the media and the social actors engaged in policy-making towards children and adolescents through three core strategies: mobilisation, monitoring and capacity-building.
Click here for work by ANDI in English.
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Click here for a full listing of work by ANDI on The CI websites.

BBC World Service Trust - provides international news, analysis and information in English and 42 other languages. Includes a global network of correspondents who provide impartial news and reports on location.
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Click here for a full listing of work by BBC WST on The CI websites.

Bernard van Leer Foundation - works to improve the chances of young children living in disadvantaged situations by supporting early childhood development (ECD) projects through close partnerships with local implementing partners and by gathering, analysing and sharing experiences and information.
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Click here for a full listing of work by Bernard van Leer Foundation on The CI websites.

Calandria (Asociación de Comunicadores Sociales [Social Communicators Association]) - a civil society institution that uses communication socially, politically, and economically in an effort to impact Peru's development and to promote democracy by strengthening civil society participation.
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Click here a full listing of work by Calandria on The CI websites.

Communication for Social Change (CFSC) Consortium - a network of practitioners, researchers and scholars dedicated to building local capacity in marginalised communities so that people living in such communities can own, create and manage communication processes in order to sustain democratic values and improve their own lives.
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Click here for a full listing of work by CFSC Consortium on The CI websites.

Canadian International Development Agency - supports sustainable development activities in order to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more secure, equitable and prosperous world.
Click here for work by CIDA in English.
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Click here for a full listing of work by CIDA on The CI websites.

The Department for International Development (DFID) - the UK Government department responsible for promoting sustainable development and reducing poverty. DFID’s assistance is concentrated in the poorest countries of sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, but also contributes to poverty reduction and sustainable development in middle-income countries, including those in Latin America and Eastern Europe.
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Click here for a full listing of work by DFID on The CI websites.

FAO - The Food and Agriculture Organisation of The United Nations - Sustainable Development Department (SD) - serves as a global reference centre for knowledge and advice on biophysical, biological, socio-economic and social dimensions of sustainable development.
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The Ford Foundation - an independent, nonprofit grant making organisation. For more than half a century it has been a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide, guided by its goals of strengthening democratic values, reducing poverty and injustice, promoting international cooperation, and advancing human achievement.
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Click here for a full listing of work by the Ford Foundation on The CI websites.

Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI) [The Foundation for a New Latin American Journalism] - created in 1994 by the journalist and Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Márquez, FNPI is an international centre for the professional development of journalists, providing a space for the exchange of experiences and ideas among colleagues in Latin America. FNPI offers an assembly of programmes for learning, debate and self-criticism on the techniques and the ethics of journalistic reporting, and supports projects to stimulate innovation in the improvement of the mass media, in consideration of the environmental, cultural, political, and social challenges that face the countries of Latin America.
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Click here for a full listing bof work by FNPI on The CI websites.

Healthlink Worldwide - works to improve the health and well-being of disadvantaged and vulnerable communities in developing countries, by working in partnership to strengthen the local provision, use and impact of health communication and to support advocacy initiatives to increase participation and inclusion.
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Click here for a full listing of work by Healthlink Worlwide on The CI websites.

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - dedicated to the design and to support of loan programmes and technical cooperation for social and economic development projects in Latin America and the Caribbean, the IDB is the oldest and largest regional development bank. It is the main source of multilateral financing for economic, social and institutional development projects as well as trade and regional integration programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) - an independent non-profit foundation working to assist developing countries to realise locally owned sustainable development by harnessing the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs). IICD works with its partner organisations in selected countries, helping local stakeholders to assess the potential uses of ICTs in development.
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Click here for a full listing of work by IICD on The CI websites.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (CCP) - working in the field of strategic, research-based communication for behavior change and health promotion to help transform the theory and practice of public health worldwide.
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Click here for a full listing of work by CCP on The CI websites.

Media Institute for Southern Africa (MISA) - a non-governmental organisation with members in 11 of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) countries. Officially launched in September 1992, MISA focuses primarily on the need to promote free, independent and pluralistic media, seeking ways to promote and facilitate the free flow of information and co-operation between media workers, as a principal means of nurturing democracy and human rights in Africa.
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Click here for a full listing of work by MISA on The CI websites.

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) - an international public health agency with 100 years of experience in working to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Americas. It serves as the specialized organisation for health of the Inter-American System. It also serves as the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization and enjoys international recognition as part of the United Nations system.
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Click here for a full listing of work by MISA on The CI websites.

The Panos Institute - an international non-profit institute providing information on global issues with a developing country perspective. With Panos the Global AIDS Programme has a specific focus on HIV/AIDS.
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Click here for a full listing of work by The Panos Institute on The CI websites.

The Rockefeller Foundation - a knowledge-based, global foundation with a commitment to enrich and sustain the lives and livelihoods of poor and excluded people throughout the world.
Click here for work by The Rockefeller Foundation in English.
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Click here for a full listing of work by The Rockefeller Foundation on The CI websites.

SAfAIDS (Southern Africa AIDS Information Dissemination Service) - a regional non-profit organisation, based in Harare, Zimbabwe. Established in 1994 to provide and disseminate HIV/AIDS information, SAfAIDS' mission is to promote ethical and effective developmental responses to the HIV and AIDS epidemic by enhancing knowledge management, communication, capacity building, advocacy, policy analysis and research.
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Click here for a full listing of work by SAfAIDS on The CI websites.

Sesame Workshop - Founded in 1968, Sesame Workshop is a nonprofit educational organisation working to make a meaningful difference in children's lives around the world. Today, the Workshop continues to innovate on behalf of children in 120 countries, using its proprietary research methodology to ensure its programmes and products are engaging and enriching. Sesame Workshop is behind award-winning programmes like Sesame Street, Dragon Tales, Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat, and Pinky Dinky Doo and multimedia productions in South Africa, Egypt and Russia. As a nonprofit, Sesame Workshop puts the proceeds it receives from sales of Sesame Street, Dragon Tales, Sagwa, and Pinky products right back into its educational projects for children around the world.
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Click here for a full listing of work by Sesame Workshop on The CI websites.

Soul City Institute - a multi-media health promotion and social change project. Through drama and entertainment Soul City reaches more than 16 million South Africans and many other people in the Southern African region.
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Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) - the agency in Switzerland which carries out tasks assigned by the two houses of Parliament and the federal government with the aim of achieving sustainable development to meet the needs of future generations. SDC works to promote the desire of people to live in peace, freedom, security, justice and prosperity - always keeping in mind the interests of future generations. At the forefront of its activities is the improvement in the living standards and the quality of life of destitute people in the countries of the South and East.
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Click here for a full listing of work by SDC on The CI websites.

UNAIDS - the joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS - brings together the efforts and resources of ten UN system organisations to the global AIDS response. Cosponsors include UNHCR, UNICEF, WFP, UNDP, UNFPA, UNODC, ILO, UNESCO, WHO and the World Bank. Based in Geneva, the UNAIDS secretariat works on the ground in more than 75 countries worldwide.
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Click here for a full listing of work by UNAIDS on The CI websites.

UNDP - United Nations Development Programme - Democracy & Governance - UNDP is the United Nation's global development network, an organisation advocating for change and working to connect countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP's democratic governance work aims to help countries enhance responsiveness, accountability and integrity of governing institutions, strengthen access to justice and human rights, and support the process of improving the enabling environment for a more open, representative and participatory society at local and central levels.
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Click here for a full listing of work by UNDP on The CI websites.

UNICEF - the United Nations Children's Fund, working in 191 countries through country programmes and National Committees towards children's rights. Their focus areas are: child survival and development; basic education and gender equality; HIV/AIDS and children; child protection; and policy advocacy and partnerships.
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USAID - the United States Agency for International Development is an independent federal government agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the US Secretary of State. Their Work supports long-term and equitable economic growth and advances US foreign policy objectives by supporting: economic growth, agriculture and trade; global health; and, democracy, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance. USAID provides assistance in four regions of the world: Sub-Saharan Africa; Asia and the Near East; Latin America and the Caribbean; and, Europe and Eurasia.
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Click here for a full listing of work by USAID on The CI websites.

World Health Organization (WHO) - WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.
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W.K. Kellogg Foundation - a foundation with a focus on building the capacity of individuals, communities, and institutions to solve their own problems. Programming activities centre around a vision of the world in which each person has a sense of worth; accepts responsibility for self, family, community, and societal well-being; and has the capacity to be productive, and to help create nurturing families, responsive institutions, and healthy communities.
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Click here for a full listing of work by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation on The CI websites.