The CFSC Consortium works to catalyse shifts in practice, values, and attitudes about the centrality of CFSC in community-driven development. Operating as a network of practitioners and scholars, the Consortium is committed to the idea that communication processes - such as those enabled by mass media and rapidly emerging technology - must empower people from the bottom up.

To that end, the network collaborates with funding agencies and donor institutions, individual practitioners, communities, teachers, and leaders of institutions working with poor and marginalised people. Based on findings from participatory research, the CFSC Consortium works with these stakeholders to redefine how communication is practiced and taught. It advocates that public and private dialogue take place, followed by a process of community-based problem solving and collective action. This is followed by strategy design, implementation, community monitoring, and assessment based on collective input from the affected people.

In carrying out this process, the Consortium pursues a multi-pronged strategy that includes providing and exchanging information, stimulating dialogue, building capacity, and advocating for change. Specifically, the organisation works to:

Development Issues

Communication for Social Change.

The CFSC Consortium started as a special project of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1997.