El Salvador Report Options for Reintegration Ex-combatants

Creative provided USAID with an assessment of the political, economic and social problems that might result from the reintegration of ex-combatants of the Salvadoran armed forces and irregular forces and made recommendations to help in their transition. Creative researched and analyzed alternatives and provided USAID with a report that included strategies for reintegrating the ex-combatants. ...
 

El Salvador Reintegration of Ex-combatants

Creative provided institutional support and management services to the Secretariat for Reintegration, the Armed Forces of El Salvador and Fundacion 16 de Enero in the design and implementation of programs for ex-combatants. Project staff provided technical support on a variety of issues, including emergency relief, integrated sustainable development projects, program linkage and administrative systems....
 

BEPS/Honduras/Providing Education to Honduran Child Laborers and their Families

Creative led a team that analyzed the extent of child labor in Honduras; evaluated factors influencing children’s participation in education programs; identified efforts to address working children’s needs; and recommended ways of providing education to working children, especially those subjected to abusive forms of labor. The BEPS team subsequently launched a one-year pilot program whereby education facilitators living and traveling with migrant-worker families taught interactive distance-learning classes for their children. ...
 

BEPS/Honduras/Planning Educational Response Strategies for Working Children

In rural areas of Honduras, school attendance averages as little as 3.3 years as entire classes drop out of school during harvest season. Creative conducted a planning analysis to determine feasible pilot project interventions that could provide educational opportunities to working children in Honduras--especially those children involved in abusive forms of child labor. The resulting analysis paper addressed interventions, indicators, the decision-making process for selecting the pilot project, and a possible regional conference on child labor. ...
 

El Salvador PROARE II Reintegration Program

The PROARE II Reintegration Program assisted communities and individuals in the transition from war to peace by providing goods and services, especially to El Salvadoran Armed Forces and the National Police. Creative focused on: procurement, storage and distribution of agricultural equipment kits for ex-combatants; design and implementation of vocationally oriented programs for ex-members of the National Police; and reintegration services for the ex-combatants. These programs assisted more than 8,600 people....
 

BEPS/Haiti/Needs Assessment in Support of Public/Private Partnerships in Education

Statistics in Haiti indicated that an overwhelming number of students attend private schools, which receive the majority of money allocated to education. Creative conducted a needs assessment to identify means by which USAID could assist Haiti's National Partnership Commission increase public-private collaboration in support of education. An action plan was designed to strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports to improve access to quality primary education for all Haitian children. ...