BEPS/Burundi/Assessing Options for Reintegration of Ex-Combatants

Creative, under the USAID-funded Basic Education and Policy Support (BEPS) Activity, conducted an assessment of youth reintegration for ex-combatants in Burundi for USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives. Creative collaborated with OTI on a program design for demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants into local communities in the country. To inform the design, an initial, two-week assessment of young ex-combatants' reintegration in Burundi following a nearly decade-long conflict was completed. ...
 

BEPS/Angola: Mid-term Evaluation of Alfalit Adult Literacy Program

Creative evaluated the adult literacy program in Angola implemented by Alfalit International, Inc., a faith-based nonprofit organization located in Miami, Florida. Creative’s evaluators found that the Alfalit activity in Angola attained impressive accomplishments but the effort was not achieving the projected large-scale community impact and was not sustainable programmatically. Evaluators recommended that USAID share both its concerns and its institutional know-how and provide Alfalit with qualified external assistance. ...
 

Benin/Equity and Quality in Primary Education (EQUIPE)

Creative worked with the government of Benin to ensure that more children, especially girls, received high-quality basic education on an equitable basis. Funded by USAID, this project aimed to improve educational equity and quality by transforming learning environments, and by increasing decentralization and community participation in Benin’s primary education system. In partnership with CARE and EMI Systems, Creative trained teachers and provided technical support for curriculum design and publication of textbooks. EQUIPE also supported Benin’s government in raising awareness of the issues, attitudes and behaviors that contribute to the spread of HIV/AIDS....
 

Benin/Children`s Learning and Equity Foundations (CLEF II)

Creative provided short-term technical assistance to the USAID-funded Children's Learning and Equity Foundations (CLEF II) project in Benin as a follow-on to the CLEF I project. New curricula for grades one and two--produced by Creative Associate's curriculum development team--was institutionalized in schools, and the new curricula for grades three and four was piloted as well. Creative conducted teacher training workshops using specialists to provide interactive teaching methods, multi-grade classroom teaching, and the design and use of classroom instruments for continuous assessments....
 

Benin/Children`s Learning and Equity Foundations (CLEF I)

The purpose of the Children's Learning and Equity Foundations (CLEF I) project was to provide quick-response, short-term and recurrent technical assistance services in planning, implementation and monitoring of activities undertaken by Benin Ministry of Education. Creative provided technical assistance and services in curriculum development, student assessment, teacher training, textbook and materials development and production, information systems management, budgeting and finance, student access and equity, community involvement, and standards for school quality. ...
 

Benin/Assistance to the Benin Pedagogical System to Address HIV/AIDS in the Education Sector

In Benin, Creative assisted the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (MEPS) to continue the great strides it has made toward primary education reform while integrating HIV/AIDS prevention into the education sector. The initiative was made possible by USAID, under a five-year Assistance to Basic Education/Linkages to Education and Health initiative (ABE-LINK). A new evaluation tool outlining educators' administrative and pedagogical responsibilities was also tested in 15 of Benin's 85 school districts, putting into practice the government's results-based management model. ...