DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: EVALUATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRENGTHENING – DEMOCRATIC INITIATIVES PROJECT

Creative conducted a mid-term evaluation of the Democratic Initiatives Project (PID), a ten-year project that awards sub-grants to groups supporting projects which encouraged citizen involvement in the political process. USAID entered into a Cooperative Agreement with the Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) to administer it in 1992. The project utilizes USAID’s medio paso atrasâ (a half step behind) philosophy, meaning that Dominicans themselves played an instrumental role in shaping the PID proposal. Once it was approved, many members of the original Consultative Group continued to participate on the project's Consultative Council....
 

COSTA RICA: MULTIGRADE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT TEACHER WORKSHOP I AND II

Creative developed a teacher's guide and specialized materials for rural, multi-grade classroom teachers and conducted workshops for those teachers based on the new curriculum. This included four five-day workshops for 600+ multi-grade teachers on classroom management, teaching methodologies and the production of teacher materials and an abbreviated two-day workshop on these subjects for their supervisors. ...
 

COSTA RICA: EVALUATION & ORGANIZATIONAL STRENGTHENING

At the request of USAID's Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Program of the Office of Democratic Initiatives, Creative evaluated the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, focusing on organizational and programming effectiveness in the areas of elections, training of human rights NGOs, and human rights and civic education. The review also included an assessment of the Institute's managerial, administrative and financial capacities; publications and information dissemination; and its annual course on human rights....
 

COLOMBIA: DISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION, AND REINTEGRATION

In 2003, Columbia’s government signed a peace accord with the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) that called for the complete demobilization of the AUC by the end of 2005 as well as a series of developments to further the peace process. At the request of USAID, Creative’s team assessed the government’s disarmament, demobilization and reinsertion (DDR) capacity and made recommendations to improve the program’s efficacy for a target population of 20,000 demobilized paramilitaries....
 

ETHRD III/El Salvador/Design of Electoral and Democratic Processes Project

Creative provided USAID/El Salvador with strategies to strengthen citizen involvement in the electoral process--particularly among women, youth and rural dwellers--and to improve the operational and managerial efficiency of the newly created Supreme Electoral Tribunal. The team reviewed efforts aimed at building civil society through NGOs in the areas of voter awareness and education, voter registration and mobilization, citizen advocacy and issues awareness and more effective use of conventional and alternative media....
 

BOLIVIA: ASSESSMENT OF USAID PROGRAMS` IMPACT ON STATUS OF WOMEN

Creative’s first-ever project provided a team of evaluation and program design specialists to gather and analyze data on the status and role of women in Bolivia. The team assessed how USAID projects addressed women’s needs and conducted a national survey on Bolivian women's preferences for training, education, and services. The final report provided recommendations for effective project implementation procedures, along with proposals for USAID initiatives that would fully include women in the development process....