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.

 

Sudan Rumbek Pilot Project

Date: November 2004 – April 2005

Working with the UN Development Programme and the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement, Creative developed a strategy to use town planning as a platform to promote local governance while addressing immediate resource issues such as land tenure and land use, all within a participatory and consensus-based process. The project generated a topographical town survey sufficient to create a Master Plan which serves as an invaluable, visible, accountable and transparent social contract between town authorities and residents. ...

 

 

Sudan Strategic Participatory Town Planning

Date: July 2005 – September 2007

Creative worked with USAID and Southern Sudan to expand a successful pilot town planning project in Rumbek to all ten State capitals. Creative developed a strategy that used town planning to promote urban development, build local capacity, generate jobs, provide job training and mobilize communities. Gender equity was incorporated into all activities. Other activities included the installation of satellite communications systems connecting the Ministries of Physical Infrastructure in each state and training in participatory urban planning and land management to government ministries....

 

 

Sudan UNICEF

Date: September 2006 – February 2007

Creative, in collaboration with UNICEF, worked with a team of vocational education experts and Southern Sudanese officials to draft a policy and framework for vocational training to improve employment opportunities for its youth. Creative assisted the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology in developing a vocational education plan for out-of-school children and youth to acquire the skills to be productive workers. ...

 

 

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Sudan/South Sudan – Health Education and Reconciliation Project

Education Date: October 2006 – September 2013

The Health, Education and Reconciliation Sudan project, funded by USAID, operated in the most neglected and least developed parts of Sudan. Teachers were trained in basic education knowledge, child-centered teaching skills, health and hygiene, conflict resolution and service-learning. The project trained community health workers to visit schools with an integrated package of health services. To strengthen school governance, it trained PTAs, teachers and school administrators on school management, monitoring and promoting transparency and accountability. ...

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Supplemental Document System Analysis

Date: July 1995 – September 1995

Creative implemented the on-line systems in a LAN environment and later enhanced the system to a client server environment. Staff developed a life-cycle enhancement strategy for the system and used level data flow diagrams to model existing and future systems. Extensive enhancements were made to the previous systems including requirements analysis using structured techniques; modifications to operate as a multi-user DBMS on a Banyan LAN; software maintenance and user software training....

 

 

Support for Evidence Summit on Development

Date: July 2010 – September 2010

Creative provided essential support to USAID's evidence-based summit on counterinsurgency and development for the September 2010 conference. ...