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.

 

Global/Lifelong Education Assistance through Rapid Response to Needs (LEARRN) IQC

Date: June 2003 – June 2006

Creative worked on activities related to the USAID-funded Lifelong Education Assistance through Rapid Response to Needs project. Creative provided assistance to developing countries in the areas of education (from early childhood development through higher education), training and capacity building, telecommunications and information technologies and related areas of human development. ...

 

 

Guatemala/Basic Education Strengthening Project (BEST)

Date: July 1992 – November 1992

Creative conducted a mid-term evaluation of the two-year-old USAID-funded Basic Education Strengthening project in Guatemala, which was designed to improve the quality, efficiency, coverage and administration of primary education services. The project focused on improving management skills and operations in the Ministry of Education in order to improve the planning and decision-making capabilities necessary to improve the primary education system. ...

 

 

Guinea/Basic Education Evaluation

Creative evaluated two basic education sector reform support projects in Guinea, assessing actual versus planned progress toward their goals and determining the projects' effectiveness in support of a multi-donor Education Sector Adjustment Program. A focus of the evaluation was women in development issues. The evaluation assisted USAID and the government in reassessing the need and effectiveness for continued assistance. It provided recommendations for adjustments in project design and helped to direct follow-on activities. ...

 

 

Guinea/Fundamental Quality and Equity Levels (FQEL)

Date: August 1997 – July 2005

Guinea improved the quality of and access to education for girls in the country’s 3,500 elementary schools. Creative provided support, through the USAID-funded Fundamental Quality and Equity Levels project, to the government in designing and implementing reforms. Emphasis was on changes in classroom practices through reform of curricula; development of materials and delivery systems; and teacher training, supervision and assessment as well as on changes in policy, planning and management of the education system. ...

 

 

Haiti Basic Education Assessment and Program Design

Date: February 2007 – April 2007

Creative assessed and designed two program components for the USAID/Haiti education strategy, addressing equitable access to quality basic education and strengthening public sector executive function in the Ministry of Education. USAID intended that the new strategy have greater demographic and geographic focus and that three vulnerable groups be targeted: children and youth under 25; women; and special concerns groups, such as people living with AIDS, TB patients and trafficked persons....

 

 

Honduras/Decentralization of the Education Sector: Strategies and Marketing Plan

Date: November 2002 – December 2003

Creative provided technical assistance to the Honduras Ministry of Education in designing and implementing strategies to assure that the decentralization of school management resulted in improvements in the quality of education and become a useful reform for parents, teachers and communities. As a result of this work, it became apparent that a marketing/communications plan was necessary to ensure consistent and sustainable program activities. Creative developed the main strategic groundwork for a comprehensive marketing strategy. ...