The Drum Beat 460: Capacity Building and Sustainability - The Communication Initiative
The CI Associates
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Many best wishes to everyone in this Drum Beat network - we are honoured that you have subscribed to this process and that we can support your work.
Over the past 10 years, every issue of The Drum Beat and 99.9% of the content in the online CI knowledge portals within The CI website have been focused on sharing, communicating, and promoting the important work, analysis, and ideas of people and organisations addressing vitally important development issues.
I hope that you will indulge us if we focus this issue of The Drum Beat on building the capacity and sustainability of The Communication Initiative itself.
The CI Partners are seeking the engagement of your office as a CI Associate in order to preserve, sustain, and advance this growing knowledge sharing and strategic development process. The CI Associates programme is like a voluntary subscription process.
The key principles driving the Associates initiative are:
1. That a large number of organisations benefit from The Communication Initiative process - 75,000 people in the network from thousands of organisations in 200 plus countries and territories with 2 million plus user sessions per annum - and that use and involvement is growing.
2. That we need to respond to the growth of this network which, in the first 8 months of this year, included 75% of all online CI site use from [so called] developing countries and 25% from the 24 economically richest countries in the world. This pattern and trend is also reflected in the nature and growth of the network itself, with a similar majority percentage from developing countries and the strongest emerging demand from local organisations in developing countries.
3. That presently, all of the costs for these services are borne by a small number of Partner organisations - and most have indicated strongly that they will continue this support.
4. That we are seeking to both grow and share the financial base for operating and strengthening The CI process by complementing the larger Partner contributions with many smaller financial contributions from a large number of organisational offices and divisions/sections whose staff are involved in and utilising The CI services - we call this The CI Associates initiative - further details here
5. That, in particular, if those organisations with comparatively "good" budget levels can make a CI Associates voluntary subscription payment then this will greatly help The CI in continuing to be freely available to all, no matter what their organisational size, focus, or location.
The suggested CI Associate payment levels are:
USD 5,000 per office - For Country, Regional, and HQ offices of major international development organisations
USD 2,500 per office - For Country, Regional, and HQ offices for medium-sized international NGOs
USD 2,000 per department - University Departments - OECD Countries
USD 750 per department - University Departments - All other Countries
USD 100 - Small, Local NGOs/CBOs
Or ... you can choose your own level of payment
For more information click here
So, can we please ask:
If you are someone with payment authorisation to the levels above, if you value the role and performance of The Communication Initiative, and you are inclined to support The CI through a relevant budget line - e.g., Materials, Publications, Training, Fees and Dues, Knowledge Management, Staff Training/Development, or other appropriate line - then please authorise payment either through the online payment form or email Warren at wfeek@comminit.com requesting a CI Associates subscription invoice.
If you are someone without that payment authorisation level, then can we please ask you, if you value the work of The CI related to your work responsibilities, to ask your managers if they will consider making a CI Associates subscription payment from a relevant office budget line [see above for suggestions] and to either make that payment online or to email Warren at wfeek@comminit.com requesting a CI Associates subscription invoice.
Or, if you wish to explore becoming a full CI Partner supporting major elements of our work, then please drop Warren an email at wfeek@comminit.com
We very much appreciate you considering this opportunity to support The CI, and very much look forward to your CI Associates subscription payment either online or by email to Warren at wfeek@comminit.com
In June, we approached some within The CI network as an early step in this Associates programme. The results encouraged us to take this broader step with the full CI network.
Our thanks to these organisations that have already become CI Associates:
Health Communication Resources Inc - Australia
UNICEF Office - Sao Tome and Principe
Institute of Development Studies - UK
Media Project Southern Africa of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation
International Development Research Centre (IDRC) - Canada
Communication and Information Sector of UNESCO (UNESCO-CI)
Communication and Development Studies Department - Ohio University - USA
Destinee Charity Foundation - Cameroon
Strategies for Hope Trust
Women's Arts Institute Africa (wAi Africa)
Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation - South Africa
With many thanks - we are honoured to support advances in your very important work.
Just a reminder!
The CI Associates
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Or, email Warren at wfeek@comminit.com
Best wishes and thanks,
Garth Japhet
Founder - Soul City
Executive Director - Heartlines
Chair - The CI Partners
garth@heartlines.org.za
Warren Feek
Executive Director
The Communication Initiative
wfeek@comminit.com
PS: Please also check out Development Classifieds - The Market Place for International Development which is another important part of our capacity building and sustainability strategy
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