What We Do
The Consortium catalyzes shifts in practice, values and attitudes about the essentiality of communication for social change to community-driven development.
We collaborate:
- with funding agencies and donor institutions challenged by how to make communication approaches more cost effective and sustainable.
- with individual practitioners seeking better ways to maximize their efforts
- with communities where development work has been unsustainable
- with teachers who prepare the next generation of communication for development and social change practitioners and strategists
- with leaders of institutions working with poor and marginalized people
The Consortium started as a special interests project of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1997. Due to rapid growth and widespread interest among communication professionals and development experts, the Consortium was formed in the summer of 2003 to continue the ground-breaking work as an independent organization. Critical support is provided to the Consortium from a number of organizations but notably the Rockefeller Foundation, The Communication Initiative and Panos London.