The Communication Initiative Network

Broadcast in the Dioula language, this Burkina Faso radio drama focuses on education of girls, fistula, domestic violence, and gender equality. In April 2012, Population Media Center (PMC), with funding from the United Nations Population Fund ...

To respond to the problem of violence against women in Latin America, in 2011, PCI Media Impact, together with Swedish partner Diakonia, began overseeing production of 3 radio dramas addressing crucial human rights issues for women: Cusco, Peru's ...

Running from December 2011 to May 2012 and designed primarily for youth aged 15 to 24, the Wize Up Youth Radio Talk Show programmes in Namibia were designed to raise awareness and discussion on youth sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR). ...

Emerging from Egypt's January 2013 revolution, this radical street art collective seeks to spark awareness of the struggles that Egypt's female population endures regularly. Women on Walls (WOW), or Sit El 7eta (in Arabic), was launched by ...

As part of Foundation Puntos de Encuentro's strategy against commercial sexual exploitation of adolescents (CSEA) (2011-2013), Alerta y Pilas Puestas ("Alert and Be Ready") was launched in 2012 in an effort to build the capacity of adolescents as ...

This global campaign to change the culture of food waste was launched on January 22 2013 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and partner Messe Düsseldorf.

This radio roundtable highlighted the need to place communication rights at the centre of media democratisation and co-related findings to the Pacific Islands Forum’s Digital Strategy in the context of needs and realities of different Pacific ...

iheed develops animated films for the training of health workers in developing countries across the globe, using its online crowd-sourcing platform, iheedCrowd. This platform is established for the digital design community to address global ...

This United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) distance post-literacy project in Pakistan is based on mobile technology. Women are able to reinforce their newly gained literacy by accessing and sending mobile phone ...

"...Arab women remain bound by the societal customs with little space to challenge them directly and limited public venues for an open dialogue that positively involves all components of the society."

The Rajasthan Patrika Group (Rajasthan, India) of newspapers launched a campaign, Bhatti mein Shahar, in 3 states against illegal installations, lack of licensing norms, and excessive levels of radiation of mobile cell towers.

As part of this information and communication technology (ICT) for development project, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Skopje provided technical assistance to the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Institute of Public Health to design ...

This initiative on food security addresses food processing and consumers' choices through different processing concepts and communication strategies, mainly to engage the private sector at the international level and younger generations. Yap is ...

The problem of poor vaccination acceptance among religious communities in the north of Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), came to the forefront in 2011 after monitoring data revealed high rates of refusal of polio vaccination ...

Many countries affected by polio have a shortage of skilled public health staff available to fully support the global effort to eradicate the disease. The Stop Transmission of Polio (STOP) programme, led by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is working to promote acceptance of polio vaccination in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by addressing the difficulties of reaching people with information and immunisation services from a ...

Building Young Futures, begun in 2008, is a partnership between Barclays and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) that aims to equip 74,000 disadvantaged young people in Brazil, Egypt, India, Pakistan, Uganda, and Zambia with the skills, ...

Wize Up, organised by Lusweti Institute for Health Development Communication in Swaziland, challenges young people to take control of their health and start thinking and talking about their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). ...

The World Bank’s Sanitation Hackathon in 2012 was a year-long strategic process to help improve access to safe sanitation for 2.5 billion people through information and communication technology (ICT) software and apps. In a weekend of ...

"Aqeel takes the spotlight away from the politics and misunderstandings that can too often muddy the dialogue about polio vaccination."

Nalamdana, a communication organisation in rural and urban Tamil Nadu, India, uses participatory behaviour change communication (BCC) to create entertainment education (EE) with the goal of enabling audiences to make better-informed decisions for ...

Digital StudyHall (DSH) is a project which uses information and communication technology (ICT) to improve quality and accessibility of education in rural and slum schools in India. DSH provides digitally recorded classes by selected grassroots ...

According to PATH, an international global health innovation organisation, tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a public health crisis in Vietnam, a country that ranks 12th among 22 TB high-burden countries and 14th among 27 multi-drug-resistant ...

"Community radio stations strengthen social and economic ties by involving local leaders and community organisations to speak on radio programs."

The Center for Media & Health (CMH) is a Dutch organisation specialising in the strategic use of "cross media" formats for social change. The centre develops interventions that contribute to improving the health and quality of life through ...

Launched in 2011, this advocacy initiative revolves around a series of short films featuring young people around the world who use science and data to reduce the carbon footprint of their homes, schools, communities, and states. The films present ...

Launched in 2013, this international project of Radijojo World Children's Media Network is dedicated to the environment, nature, sustainability, and fair globalisation. Global Green Kids is open for all schools, children's media groups, kids' ...

"From China to Costa Rica, from Mali to Malaysia,...singers and musicians, women and men, have come together to spread a message of unity and solidarity: We are 'One Woman'."

Launched on February 24 2013, the one-year anniversary of the day India was removed from the World Health Organization (WHO)'s polio endemic list, this campaign involves Indian cricket star Suresh Raina working with youth and children to ...

Global Working Group on Children on the Move (GWG COM) was formed after the International Conference on Protecting and Supporting Children on the Move in Barcelona, Spain, in 2010 to follow up on the issue of child and adolescent migration and ...

Moved by its belief in the fundamental right of all people to have access to safe drinking water and clean sanitation, the Indian non-profit organisation HEEALS (Health Education Environment and Livelihood Society) embarked upon a behaviour ...

Since 2007, the Womanity Foundation has supported Afghanistan’s largest girls’ school - the Al Fatah School in Kabul - to become a model for girls' education. Based on this experience, Womanity has developed a holistic approach that focuses on ...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Turkey Office has been working with adolescent/youth (ages 13-18) groups actively at the local level (nationwide) since 2000 when Turkey held its first Congress for Children and ratified the United ...

From Radijojo World Children's Radio Network in Berlin, Germany, this project connected students in classrooms in four countries to learn about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), exchange ideas of what needs to change in each country to ...

This fund is an initiative to promote investment in early childhood in Colombia. The longterm investment plan allows private investors and donors to generate investment opportunities in early childhood development (ECD) within the framework of ...

Yvonne Bezerra de Mello has developed this project to help small children recover from trauma resulting from public violence in Río de Janeiro, Brazil. The project paedagogy emphasises fun games that are designed to stimulate memory and the ...

Callaloo is a radio drama broadcast in 15 Caribbean countries that uses role models in an effort to stimulate knowledge, attitude, and behavior changes necessary to prevent HIV/AIDS, adapt to climate change, and reduce biodiversity loss. It is ...

Broadcast in the United States (US), Yo Soy Tu Niña is an original telenovela-style miniseries whose storyline focuses on the contentious relationship between a 15-year-old adolescent and her father in order to address the issue of teen pregnancy ...

Through a partnership with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Population Media Center (PMC) has expanded the social efforts of MTV Latin America's telenovela Ultimo Año ("Last Year") with the launch of the SexySex campaign. Ultimo ...

The main objective of this programme is to promote healthy growth and development among vulnerable children in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Participating children range from age 45 days to 4 years of age.

This United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)-driven initiative promotes the application by local entities of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in their jurisdictions. Accross the globe, a Child Friendly City (CFC) is any local ...

Inversión en la Infancia (Investment in Childhood) is an initiative designed to raise awareness among public and private institutions and citizens about the need to invest in children in early childhood (0-5 years of age) as a key poverty ...

This initiative has been developed in an area made up of 52 settlements in Lomas de Carabayllo, Peru. The objective of this educational proposal is to improve the learning abilities among low academic performing children through the use of fun ...

This network is made up of civil society organisations, the government, the private sector, and other networks and multilateral organisations that work to promote and defend the rights of Brazilian children from birth to six years old. Its ...

Las Golondrinas (The Swallows) is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that works with displaced and marginalised people in Medellin, Colombia. The NGO offers health care programmes, education services, nutrition, and health care geared towards ...

The main focal point of the Fundación Centro Internacional de Educación y Desarrollo Humano (CINDE)/International Center of Education and Human Development is on promoting the creation of an appropriate environment for the integral development of ...

This children's television channel, operated by the Ministry of Education of Argentina, focuses on children aged 2 to 11 years in Argentina and Latin America. The experience of producing the children's series of programmes for Canal Encuentro led ...

"Throughout history, the most effective political actors have married the arts with campaigns for social change."

Since 2005, groups of young people aged 16 to 25 with disabilities in 22 countries across in Africa, Asia, and the Americas have come together in Young Voices, a global project that campaigns for countries to sign, ratify, and implement the ...

The programme Learn to Learn, developed by Colombia-based CINDE, is the result of a process of research and development that aims to contribute to improving the quality of education in preschool and elementary school, encouraging the children ...