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.

 

ETHRD III/Lesotho/Design of Primary Education Program Assistance Authorization Document

Date: March 1991 – May 1991

Creative assisted USAID in completing the analysis for and design of the Program Assistance Authorization Document for the Lesotho Primary Education Project. The team identified and analyzed key public and private organizations involved with primary education reform, assessing their capacity to undertake the primary education reform program, and then recommended strategies to strengthen their institutional capacity. In-country and overseas training plans were developed for educational professionals to implement and monitor reforms and activities. ...

 

 

ETHRD III/Uganda/Ugandan Education Sector Studies

Date: September 1991 – December 1991

Creative assessed the Ugandan educational system at the ministry, district and local levels, and proposed structural improvements to strengthen the educational system's financial accounting systems in preparation for USAID's proposed national basic primary education program. Based on its findings, the team proposed alternative financial accounting systems and potential methods of channeling aid to primary schools so that equity, efficiency and effectiveness concerns would be taken into consideration....

 

 

ETHRD IV/India/Situational Analysis of Girls’ Education

Date: October 1994 – December 1994

For USAID/India, Creative conducted a research study that summarized the status of girls' education, described efforts to improve education in low-female-literacy states, analyzed strengths and weaknesses in elementary education and identified possible areas of intervention for improving girls' education. The study was conducted in the context of USAID/New Delhi's goal of sustainable development and its population and women's empowerment initiatives. ...

 

 

Global, Cameroon and Botswana/Assessment and Analysis of Non-formal Education

Date: September 1980 – July 1983

Creative developed a model for assessing non-formal education (NFE) activities in developing countries under a USAID contract. A prototype method for nationwide assessment/analysis of NFE was developed in phases: 1) collaboration with the Centre National d'Education in Cameroon in the design and implementation of an assessment/analysis of NFE, 2) collaboration with the Department of NFE in Botswana to adapt the model to their needs, and 3) presentation of the prototype model in a workshop attended by policy planners....

 

 

Global/Advancing Basic Education and Literacy (ABEL I) IQC

Date: October 1989 – September 1994

Creative provided a range of training and technical assistance services aimed at improving the quality and efficiency of basic education throughout the developing world under the USAID-funded Advancing Basic Education & Literacy project. Special attention was given to increasing girls' participation and persistence in basic education, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Creative served as a sub-contractor to the Academy for Educational Development on 28 separate activities....

 

 

Global/Advancing Basic Education and Literacy (ABEL II) IQC

Date: October 1994 – September 1999

Creative provided a broad range of training and technical assistance services aimed at improving the quality and efficiency of basic education throughout the developing world under the USAID-funded Advancing Basic Literacy & Education project. Special attention was given to increasing girls' participation and persistence in basic education, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia....