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.

 

Nigeria

Northeast Connection Program

Citizen Security Date: 2021-2023

Northeast Connection’s solutions-based approach uses a range of activities to address and prevent social conflicts in some of Nigeria's most vulnerable communities. ...

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Pakistan – Reading Project

Education Date: 2013-2018

Pakistan is one of the few countries where illiteracy rates are actually increasing. Government statistics show that primary school enrollment is only 66 percent, which means some 7.2 million children are not in classrooms....

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Pakistan Training for Pakistan

Date: August 2011 – March 2013

Creative partnered with the Institute of International Education to implement the USAID Training for Pakistan project....

 

 

Pakistan/Primary Education Development (PED)

Date: February 1990 – April 1994

Creative was instrumental in the development and implementation of a participatory process for improving the quality of primary school instructional materials in Pakistan through the USAID-funded Primary Education Development Program, which was designed to increase national literacy rates. With the cooperative support of both provincial and federal officials, Creative helped to establish--within the newly formed Directorate of Primary Education--the Baluchistan Instructional Materials Development and Training Cell. ...

 

 

Panama – Combating Child Labor through DESTINO

Date: August 2004 – August 2008

Many of Panama’s poor and indigenous children must help their families by working on farms, limiting their educational development and lifelong opportunities. To combat these effects, Creative teamed with Panamanian organizations to provide non-formal and flexible education opportunities for 3,100 child laborers. Under Creative’s management, the local organizations developed a national awareness campaign, teacher training, accelerated learning and scholarships to secondary-school children and income generation or vocational training activities....

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Panama – Youth At Risk

Date: June 2010 – September 2013

The Community Youth at Risk program was designed to lower the risk factors that lead youth into crime and violence in Panamanian communities. The program addressed the alienation of youth; coordinated with private sector, NGOs, donor and government stakeholders; promoted social mobilization and formulation of public policy; developed strong private sector alliances and holistic approaches to address the continuum of risk factors for youth-at-risk; and ensured community participation. ...

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