“I Read” campaign promotes literacy in Yemen

September 22, 2014

In Yemen, a country where the illiteracy rate is nearly 35 percent and television and radio rather than newspapers are preferred vehicles for information, the Ministry of Education has launched a creative campaign to bolster community support for early grade reading....
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Who will fight against ISIS?

By James "Spike" Stephenson

September 19, 2014   |   0 comments

Following a flurry of visits by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to build a coalition of traditional Western and Middle Eastern allies to combat the Islamic State (ISIS), France hosted a conference on Sept. 15 to determine what each of those allies will bring to the table and the battlefield....
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Curing the disease of electoral fraud

By Jeffrey Carlson

September 9, 2014   |   0 comments

Vote fraud is like a cancerous growth that will spread throughout the system and ultimately affect a state’s governance. If vote fraud is the disease, then the cure is creating and sustaining functioning electoral integrity systems that prevent, mitigate and deter vote fraud....
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Pakistan/Primary Education Development (PED)

Creative was instrumental in the development and implementation of a participatory process for improving the quality of primary school instructional materials in Pakistan through the USAID-funded Primary Education Development Program, which was designed to increase national literacy rates. With the cooperative support of both provincial and federal officials, Creative helped to establish--within the newly formed Directorate of Primary Education--the Baluchistan Instructional Materials Development and Training Cell. ...