CREATIVE’S PAST PROJECTS

40+ years of promoting positive change

Creative has implemented hundreds of projects around the globe since it was founded in 1977. From education and elections to governance and economic growth, Creative’s efforts have made a difference. For example, since the year 2000, Creative has trained more than 389,000 teachers in 21 countries—providing them with new skills and techniques that ultimately benefit their students.

Creative’s Past Projects section has a list of selected projects, a brief description, their implementation dates and funders.

 

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

Date: October 2002 – July 2004

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/India Education Activity/Child and Police (CAP)

Date: September 2002 – August 2006

The Child and Police (CAP) project, a component of the India Education Activity, has provided training to madrasa teachers in student centered pedagogical methods, provided computers and other learning materials, and provided school management and networking training to administrators. Through CAP's successful integration of quality, formal academic education in targeted madrasas in Hyderabad, India has led to a 90 percent success rate in the state's 7th and 10th grade exams and a 75 percent increase in children's enrollment. ...

 

 

BEPS/India/Education Sector Strategic Planning

Date: September 2002 – October 2004

Creative conducted a phased assessment and implementation analysis of the Indian education sector to identify areas of need regarding improving access to primary education for vulnerable children, particularly girls; to recommend actions to address these needs; to build the capacity of Indian NGOs and Foundations to address access and quality issues in the primary education system; and to assess the feasibility of implementing these recommendations....

 

 

BEPS/Ivory Coast/Planning Intervention Strategies for Child Laborers

Date: April 2002

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/Jamaica/ Improving School Census Data Use

Date: January 2003 – June 2004

The New Horizons for Primary Schools Project (NHP) in Jamaica was designed to improve enrollment in, and the quality of, primary education. Creative Associates' software developers worked with the USAID/Jamaica Mission on the development of a custom version of Creative Associates' GIRO (General Input and Reporting Online) database. The system was used by Jamaica's Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture, as the central census data-collection and reporting platform for the Ministry's Planning Unit....

 

 

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

Date: May 2002 – August 2002

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....