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.

 

ABEL II IQC – ABEL II/ GLOBAL: FOURTH WORLD CONFERENCE ON WOMEN & NGO FORUM ON WOMEN

Date: August - September 1995

The USAID-funded projects focused on advancing girls’ and women’ education and participation in science and technology were the subject of a video and discussion presented by Creative at the Fourth World Conference on Women and NGO Forum on Women in Beijing. USAID requested Creative represent the Advancing Basic Education & Literacy (ABEL II) at the conference....

 

 

ABEL II IQC – ABEL II/ GLOBAL: INCENTIVE PROGRAMS FOR GIRLS’ EDUCATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Date: February - October 1995

Creative produced the publication, "Exploring Incentives: Promising Strategies for Improving Girls' Participation in School." The publication summarized educational incentives found to be successful in developing countries, including scholarship programs at both the primary and secondary levels and school feeding programs used to build enrollment, attendance and retention. The report also discussed incentive packages, where incentives were combined with other interventions....

 

 

ABEL II IQC – ABEL II/ GLOBAL: MANAGEMENT OF PROJECT ACTIVITIES RELATED TO GENDER EQUITY AND AWARENESS

Date: September 1994 - September 1999

Creative was the lead organization for all gender equity and awareness activities for the USAID-funded Advancing Basic Education & Literacy (ABEL II) project. This included project management, coordination of efforts between Creative and other organizations working on this area and dissemination of reports. Project validity was enhanced by effectively responding to the frequent requests from Ministries of Education, NGOs, consultants and educators....

 

 

ABEL II IQC – ABEL II/ GLOBAL: REFINEMENT OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION PLANNING TOOL FOR EDUCATION

Date: September 1996 - January 1997

“Planning for Community Participation in Education" is a computer software program and manual intended to help facilitate community involvement and participation in educational planning in developing countries. Creative revised the earlier version to make it more user-friendly for a larger audience, which includes public and private sector education policymakers in these countries, education practitioners and decision makers in donor organizations. ...

 

 

ABEL II IQC – ABEL II/AFRICA: EDUCATIONAL INCENTIVE PROGRAMS

Date: June - August 1996

With growing recognition of the decisive role that educational demand by parents, communities and students plays in enrollment decisions, educational planners are using incentive programs to encourage participation and investment in education. Incentives help address the financial and economic burdens associated with children's non-enrollment, and lack of persistence, in school, particularly for girls and children from rural areas. Creative reviewed these programs and produced an annotated bibliography of effective incentive interventions that stimulate demand in developing countries. ...

 

 

ABEL II IQC – ABEL II/AFRICA: NON-TRADITIONAL AND COMMUNITY-BASED HIV/AIDS PROGRAMS FOR SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN

Date: March - September 1996

Under the USAID-funded Advancing Basic Education and Literacy (ABEL II) project, Creative identified and studied low-cost, community-based HIV/AIDS awareness programs that targeted school-aged children and, in particular, adolescent and pre-adolescent youth. The study also looked at the transferability of the non-traditional and community-based program models for delivery on a larger scale by formal and non-formal schools. The report, “Early Intervention: HIV/AIDS Programs for School-Aged Youth,” was geared towards HIV/AIDS project implementers, traditional and non-traditional youth programs and the Ministries of Education....