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What Are You Saying About The Communication Initiative?

A sample of comments received.

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March 2009

"Many thanks for including mention of Scenarios from Africa on your websites, which we always cite to our colleagues as being the best around....We are grateful for your ongoing support." - Dan Enger, Coordinator, Scenarios from Africa, Burkina Faso

"We hold your initiative in high esteem as a great contribution to human and social well being.  Keep up the good work." - Dr. F.X. LESLIE, INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM FOR TRANSFORMATION, India

"Great work and keep us posted. We have alot of information on health equity kindly let me know how can work together" - Muhinda Aaron

"Thank you for all your help.  Our posting on Drumbeat has already attracted many applicants for the course.  We will definitely continue using your posting system for our future courses. Thanks again." - Hannah Cowart, Global Health Action, USA

"Firstly, congratulations on The Drum Beat. Each week I look forward to postings on new communication initiatives. The work of many individuals and organisations globally is inspiring. As is the work of The Communication Initiative Network." - Kevin Guy, Environment Manager, Feral Arts, Australia

"Just wanted to tell you that I worked with a student on her [university] graduation project...  We found so much that was useful on the Communication Initiative site and printing it out was free - so many other sites wanted her to pay." - Joan Sakalas, Associate Professor.

February 2009

"I have read the summary and I think that it reflects exactly the MMRK. PROTEGE QV is very honoured that you put it as a reference in CI. Thanks a lot." -  Sylvie Siyam

"I appreciate your quick response and willingness to help.  I believe we will be using your posting system a great deal in the future." - Hannah Cowart, Administrative Assistant, Global Health Action

"Thanks for the notice to feature our project in your upcoming issue. That's great! We look forward to the newsletter. Good job to the entire CI team. We are proud of the work you do." - Mrs. Alison Data Phido, Program Director, ARDA, Nigeria

"I am quite familiar with your website and I am glad information on UNICEF Turkmenistan activities was included there." - Gulyalek Soltanova, Communication Officer, UNICEF, Turkmenistan

"Thanks for all your good work, I lecture a lot on strategic communication in the water sector and I refer constantly to your website and enewsletters to the water professionals." - Ms. Cecilia Martinsen, Director, Water Week and Water Prizes, Sweden

"I must congratulate you for a fine work you have done with communication initiative. I have always taken ideas and information from it." -  Shiv Khare, Executive Director, Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development, Thailand

"I use this website for many things such as for training, jobs, updates on gender movements, institutional building and organisational management. really for lots of things, keep up the good work." - Sahro Ahmed, Gender and Human Rights Officer, UNDP, Somalia

"Thanking you very much for updating us in regular basis. I personally am enjoying the article, document and study reports from you site and enhancing myself with knowledge and skills. Just wishing to meet you and your team in one of the media conference in coming days to build the network strong." - Khemraj Shrestha, Nepal Family Health Program, Nepal

"thanks for the wonderfully precise and informative update." - Neelima Mathur, India

"Thank you so much for providing the links to the Communications Initiative website, I spent quite a few hours this evening browsing the site and found it to be quite comprehensive, it's truly a knowledge and networking portal, and I found a lot of material that is relevent to our media development work in Southern Sudan." - Hakim Moi, Director, AMDISS

"Great! Thank you for your help. I really like the site, so I try to do my part to help it be a success." - Sherry Hutchinson, The Population Council

"Thanks for your quick response. And many thanks for updating your website. Your announcement always helps us a lot in getting a wide range of good entrants." - Signe Glahn, Deputy Director, One World Broadcasting Trust, UK

January 2009

"We receive  with gratitude your Communication and Change News, that let us know works, strategies, experiences in social and economic development in other countries, from Africa specially.   In our small organization, in Argentina, South America, we can learn a lot from you. Thank you very much. God bless you in all your dreams and projects.  Happy Christmas." -   Mabel Filippini/CEASOL/Argentina

"We are pleased to see that The Communication Initiative has used one of our articles, and hope to see more in the future!  Please let us  know if there is anything else you would like from us or any other type of article that might be of interest to you in the future." - Lisa Cyr, Communications associate

"Development Communication have a tremendous role to play in coming times. Last few decades has seen a priority for Development Programming without focus on communication, which is a result of lack of professionalism in Development Sector up to the desired extent. The spending in Communication has been much less than desired. Thus, the site like yours has tremendous need for the sector and potential for its own growth . As a Consultant, I have tried many main line Comunication agencies for taking Development Communication , who have expressed their lack of interest for various reasons. However, Internet may be a god beginning." - Ranjan Mohapatra, Vision Foundation, India

"This site has been useful in the type of information that is provided and I am motivated to utilize the resources to the benefit of our women groups and for further development. Thank you" - James Omondi Okeda, Kenya

"I wanted to absolutely congratulate you on the exceptional work you are doing with the international communications network. I have worked in public health communication/behavior change communication for more than 20 years (USAID, AED, Johns Hopkins, UNICEF, John Snow etc), and find the network that you have created something that has been very very much needed. It is in invaluable tool." - Raisa Scriabine,  Executive Producer,  Earth Focus, USA

"The organisation is vital to our activities. So please collaboration is neccessary" - Moses Madoyi, mubende education network, Uganda

"thank you very much for bringing this interesting Communication Initiative to my attention. I was not aware of it, and I am quite impressed by it." - Marco Segone

"In general, you all are doing a great job at CI! I'll be in touch later." - Jean Fairbairn, UK

"Thank you very much for your call. It will be my pleasure to be associated with the activites of Drum Beat. I authorize you to put the summary of my paper in coming isssue of Drum Beat. You are further requested to keep me aware about your activities and call for contribution." - Dr. Pradeep Kumar Misra, Faculty of Education & Allied Sciences,M.J.P.Rohilkhand University, India

"I highly appreciate the Communication Initiative and the very useful resources it provides to its members and recipients. And this new resource  reinforces the good work and services provided by The CI. Presently, I have an open-ended commitment with the Open Society Institute's  West Africa Foundation. For that reason, I have put my solo consultancy work  on the backburner for some time.  I am certainly going to come back to you when the occasion arises. Many thanks again and keep up the good work." - Paul Takow, Senegal

"I must confess that your network is doing a very wonderful work. i have find this netwrk very resourcefull." - Felix Brown, Global Youth Development Centre, Nigeria

 "This is very important work that you are carrying out in a critical development area. Please continue with the good work. And thanks for maintaining the write up on Breeze FM. The station has grown and recently marked its sixth year of operation. In 2006 the station extended its broadcasting hours to 18 shared equally by English and the local ciNyanja language. It now broadcasts from 06.00 to 24.00 hours. The hours are in four segments. 06.00 to 11.00 English; 11.00 to 15.00 ciNyanja; 15.00 to 19.00 English and 19.00 to 24.00 ciNyanja." - Mike Daka, Breeze FM, Zambia

"We really appreciate the work the the Communication Initiative has done with Soul Beat Africa and Drum Beat. I am in fact in the field in rural KwaZulu-Natal working on a project that is funded by a foundation who found us through the Drum Beat!" - Jamie McLaren Lachman,  Founder and Director, Clowns Without Borders South Africa

"Thank you very much for putting up Ganjam's positive behavioral change story on the HIV/AIDS site. It would be a great thing if it gives some encouragement to NGOs working for such change among communities." - Manipadma Jena