The Communication Initiative Network

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 ...

"The worldwide trend toward smaller families - average family size has declined by half since 1950 - is linked to advances in education and health care and increased opportunities for women. This great global success story can continue only if ...

This research explores why individuals in the United States (US) who are Deaf  are disproportionately vulnerable to HIV infection. "An analysis of the social, political, and attitudinal environments surrounding people who are Deaf reveals ...

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.

"At the heart of every social cause is the need to connect with people; to inspire, convince, and prompt them to take action or change behaviors. It is a tall order. Words, even carefully chosen words, are almost never enough. Time and time again ...

This photo essay from the CORE Group Polio Project (CGPP) illustrates the installation of a statue depicting a mother and child. Unveiled on February 23 2013, the day prior to the National Immunisation Day (NID), the monument, "Polio Chowk", is ...

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 ...

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' ...

The Peace Pals invites children throughout the world between the ages of 5 and 16 to participate in The Annual International Peace Pals Art Competition and Exhibition. Entries are divided into four age categories for the awarding of prizes: ...

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 ...

"Primeira Infância Melhor (PIM) (Best Early Childhood)" is the public policy of early childhood for Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, organised around three structural axes: the family, the community, and intersectoral cooperation of social services. ...

The Communication for Social Change Award was established in 2006 to recognise outstanding contributions made by individuals and organisations to the theory and practice of Communication for Social Change (CSC); specifically those that have ...

This research project aims to understand the determinants of public engagement in science success or failure in 5 impoverished urban areas of Johannesburg, South Africa, where a Health, Environment and Development (HEAD) panel study is being ...

The MenCare Media & Resources page of the MenCare website displays the campaign's latest videos from around the world that demonstrate the ways in which men are engaging in fatherhood and caregiving. It lists publications on topics taken up ...

"...from one of the emerging photographers: "When I look through the camera, the unseen becomes the seen"

Men Care is a global campaign to promote men’s involvement as equitable, responsive, and non-violent fathers and caregivers. It provides community and mass media messages, technical assistance and training, policy and programme recommendations, ...

"'Global health' is a phrase we hear more and more frequently. As it attracts more attention it attracts more investment and more research. But what does it mean? Can health really be 'global'? To the extent that some diseases are tied to ...

Launched in 2009, the Voter Opinion and Involvement through Civic Education (VOICE) Program worked to improve the capacity of the Congolese people to understand the decentralisation process mandated by a 2007 law and to engage in the November ...

The Drum Beat - 621 - Art for Public Health Communication

With the goal of contributing children's literature that offers "safe and secure surroundings to learn the first adventures" in early childhood development (ECD), Butterfly Works requested permission of Dutch artist Dick Bruna, creator of a ...

Noting that public health researchers have documented a range of adverse health effects associated with housing insecurity and homelessness, including threats to mental, physical, and social wellbeing, this initiative draws on public art as a ...

"Our hope is that the merger of the mediums of photography, anthropology and public health can convey more than the sum of the parts methodologically, theoretically and representationally. Once again, by imbuing social science analysis with the ...

"Storytelling is wellness....[I]t puts my kids back in touch with my grandmother, of people they never get to see. It inspires them to carry on their culture. That's wellness." - Pomo basket weaver and activist Luwana Quitiquit

"The participants' visual explorations communicate the challenges facing HIV-positive people around the world: stigma, fear, and access to treatment, among others."

"We hope the art exhibition will give people an insight into children's understanding of communication at an early age and will raise awareness of the importance of encouraging children to develop their communication skills further."

Nuestra Casa is a communication initiative revolving around a traveling exhibit: a full-size, 3-dimensional house that is designed to make real the life and stories of people in Mexico and the United States (US)-Mexico borderlands who are ...

"How do you translate abstract health concepts into provocative messages that will resonate with the general public?" In the Spring of 2012, students from the United States (US)-based Yale University's School of Public Health turned to ...

By Jawahir Habib (Click here to see the blog site for all of this author's Communication Initiative blogs.) 73 children were crippled for lifetime in Balochistan province during 2011. The province is located in southwest Pakistan, which reported ...

The Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE)'s intent is to empower indigenous women and support their needs and basic human rights. The organisation has a focus on refugees from Burma, now living in Thailand, to work on capacity ...

In the summer of 2012, immigration activists of the organisation No Papers No Fear publicly planned to present the situation of undocumented workers in the United States (US) through a campaign that culminated with a bus ride through states in ...

"As we worked and played this year in Belen it became clear that art, in the form of collaborative creative play improvisational theater), painting of houses and murals, music, dance and art education enables community participation in other ...

Maria's Children is an art studio where Russian boys and girls who are orphans from state boarding schools come to make art, receive therapy, learn skills, and have the opportunity to work on preparing to integrate themselves into mainstream ...

Designed to raise awareness of the impact and history of malaria and the science that underpins global efforts to tackle the disease, this initiative revolves around an exhibition by photographer Adam Nadel in collaboration with the Malaria ...

This book contains essays on issues involving mainstream media, social concerns, development, and the information gap and teaching communication professionals in Papua New Guinea (PNG). In it, young, emerging, and established researchers ...

"We recognise that responding to sexual violence is essential in our work, in our communities and in our world. We commit to addressing sexual violence in our contexts to the best of our ability, aiming to end it in all its forms, together." From ...

The Open Society Foundations (OSF) Documentary Photography Project is offering a grant to support alternative models for presenting and disseminating documentary photography in ways that advance social change.

Louder Together Kenya, an initiative by Xchange Perspectives (XCP) and its partners, works to share knowledge and skills with street children in Kenya, as well as create awareness of the problem of street children in the country. Through video ...

This Center for Environmental Concerns-Philippines (CEC-Phils) project brings together health researchers and workers, social researchers, environmentalists, and cultural workers to devise ways to effectively engage indigenous communities with ...

In March 2012, the International Rescue Committee (IRC), Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), launched Brisons le Silence (Break the Silence), a nationwide social marketing campaign to combat violence against women and girls, including domestic violence, ...

The World Bank and Fotopedia, publisher of iOS apps, have collaborated on a new free app (software applications, usually designed to run on smartphones and tablet computers - Wikipedia) titled “Women of the World” for the iPad (portable ...

What is the purpose of public engagement in science? It was this question with which Clare Matterson launched her presentation at the Wellcome Fourth International Public Engagement Workshop, October 3 2012, Cape Town, South Africa. As she ...

This update, which is one of a series produced by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) India in consultation with polio partners and is circulated by email as a PDF document, offers updates on communication efforts underway in India as ...

The Open Society Documentary Photography Project and Arts and Culture Program announce a grant and training opportunity for documentary photographers from Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Afghanistan, Mongolia, and Pakistan. Both emerging and ...

The Open Society Institute (OSI) invites photographers to submit a proposal and completed body of work for consideration in the Moving Walls group exhibition. Moving Walls is an exhibition series that features in-depth explorations of human ...

Organised by the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC), the theme of this annual photography competition is "Communication for All". The WACC Photo Competition 2012 seeks photos that illustrate the notion that ...

The African Network for Strategic Communication in Health and Development (AfriComNet), is calling for nominations for its Award for Excellence in HIV/AIDS Communication in Africa. The aim of the award is to: recognise outstanding contributions ...

The Deutsche Welle (DW) Global Media Forum 2012 invites entries to its photo contest “KLICK! - Your View of Culture and Education.” Anyone may enter. DW will publish the submitted entries in an interactive “photo atlas” on its website.

Scrutinize is a campaign from the partnership effort of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Johns Hopkins Health and Education in South Africa (JHHESA) and its 21 partners, the Levi's® brand, and the campaign incubator ...

In the book "Media & Glocal Change: Rethinking Communication for Development" (Chapter 24), Minou Fuglesang analyses the docudrama approach of the Swahili-language SiMchezo! Magazine.

The Center for Community Health Research and Development (CCRD) and the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology (VME), Hanoi, Vietnam, in collaboration with Columbia University, New York, United States (US), organised a museum exhibition in Vietnam on ...