Remedying the underrepresentation of women in Burmese elections

By Tihana Bartulac Blanc

July 14, 2015   |   0 comments

Burmese democracy has a famously female face in Aung San Suu Kyi, but women are still underrepresented in politics. Electoral integrity expert Tihana Bartulac Blanc explores this phenomenon in Burmese politics and how to remedy it. ...
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“I Read” campaign promotes literacy in Yemen

September 22, 2014

In Yemen, a country where the illiteracy rate is nearly 35 percent and television and radio rather than newspapers are preferred vehicles for information, the Ministry of Education has launched a creative campaign to bolster community support for early grade reading....
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SWIFT I Serbia and Montenegro Democratic Transition Initiative

Creative was awarded the Democratic Transition Initiative which engaged citizens in peaceful democratic change through interethnic-cooperation and community-participation grants, leading to an increased pace of reform in Serbia and Montenegro. The project worked to harness the power of the media and encourage citizens to become decision-makers in community improvement by targeting five key sectors of reform: the judiciary, the economy, local self-governance, anti-corruption and the promotion of minority rights. ...
 

Portugal/Adult Educators Training

Creative assisted the newly formed Adult Education Department of Portugal's Ministry of Education to strengthen its program planning capability as well as its use of innovative techniques, and also assisted USAID/Portugal in determining priority areas for program inputs. Creative helped expand capabilities related to the use of quantitative and qualitative data for education planning and the development of adult education projects employing competency-based education and criterion reference evaluation techniques....