Ethiopia/Strengthening Community Partnerships in Education (SCOPE)February 2002 – June 2004

Creative provided technical expertise in girls' education to Strengthening Community Partnerships in Education, a project in Ethiopia funded by USAID, working with Save the Children and CARE. Creative provided technical advice on strategies to remove barriers that prevent girls, nomads and other vulnerable children from accessing education, and helped design training materials and manuals for educators....
 

BEPS/Kenya/Sudan/Impact on Sudan of Proposed Teacher Training Center in Kakuma, Kenya Refugee Camps

By 2002, nearly two decades of civil war had displaced more than 4.5 million people in Sudan, and education services essentially became nonexistent. Refugee camps in Kenya and Uganda provided reputable, high-quality interim education services for displaced Southern Sudanese communities. Creative conducted field research to address the relocation of Southern Sudanese teachers to refugee camps in Kakuma, Kenya. As a result, USAID identified incentives encouraging teachers to stay in Southern Sudan or access training in bordering Kenya....
 

BEPS/Ivory Coast/Planning Intervention Strategies for Child Laborers

Creative Associates, as part of the USAID-funded Basic Education Policy Support (BEPS) Activity's child labor team, conducted a planning analysis in Ivory Coast with an eye to developing educational and other intervention strategies for children working under abusive labor circumstances--predominantly in the cocoa production industry. The planning analysis was completed in April 2002. Due to the onset of civil strife in Ivory Coast, however, follow-on activities were suspended. ...
 

BEPS/Guinea/Mano River Union: Conflict Assessment and Peace-building Framework

Creative assessed the political stability and level of conflict in the Mano River Union area, which encompasses Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, and designed a comprehensive conflict prevention and peace-building framework for future USAID/West Africa Regional Program activities in the Mano River Union. ...
 

Egypt/School Team Excellence Awards Program II

USAID awarded Creative the School Team Excellence Awards Program to help the country meet its goal of education for all boys and girls. The program raised awareness in schools and local communities about school-based reforms and the significance of meeting the National Education Standards’ targets. Teams of educators were encouraged to meet targets through an awards system that built on the successes and lessons learned from an earlier project....
 

Egypt/Assessment of USAID Contributions to Egypt Basic Education Program

Creative studied the effects of USAID-financed contributions to the Egypt Basic Education Project on access to and the efficiency of basic education. Issues the studies focused on included the impact of new school construction and new equipment on student enrollment, student retention and completion rates and literacy attainment of school-aged children. Also studied was the extent to which technical assistance helped in curriculum design and development, teacher training and planning. ...