Social norms action with informed and engaged societies
After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at lainiciativadecomunicacion.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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AlterPresse

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This information agency was created at the end of 2001 by the Groupe Medialternatif, an association of mass communication professionals and those from other associated disciplines working to create and promote alternative communication and information. Its main objective is to extend and guarantee the right to information by sharing news through an online portal, available in Creole, English, French, and Spanish.
Communication Strategies

The AlterPresse website is a source of information on political, economic, social, and cultural processes, and on the role-players involved in these processes: social movements, community associations, promotion and defense of human rights organisms, development organisations, research and non-formal educational institutions, universities, etc. It also plays a role in circulating information among Haitians abroad and the Haitians living in their own country. The agency is particularly interested in gender equity, female leadership, local participation, supportive economy, appropriate technologies, food assurance, sustainable agriculture, environmental protection, traditional medicine, children's rights, responsible paternity, and alternative and popular communication.

AlterPress functions with a team of journalism professionals, the majority of whom have had careers spanning from 1980 to the present. They oversee the information disseminated by Alterpresse, mainly in French and Creole, which comes from local, national, and international sources.

Development Issues

Rights, Democracy and Governance, Women, Children, Environment, Sustainable Agriculture, and Health Care.

Partners

Fondation Culture Creation, Enfants Soleil, Mediaterre, World Association for Christian Communication (WACC), OneWorld, Idealiste.org, Comunica, Radio Kiskeya, Port-Haiti, Panos Caraibe et Amerique Centrale, Agence Latino Americaine d'Information (ALAI), Radio Ase Plere An nou Lite, Radio UTG, Pool de Nuevas Agencias de America Latina (Poonal), the Haiti Support Group (HSG), Windows On Haiti (WOH), Centre des Médias Communautaires du Québec (CMAQ).

Sources

AlterPresse website, December 19 2002 and January 15 2010.

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