NIGERIA: 30 Percent Almajiri Students are Girls, USAID Study Reveals
December 16, 2009
NIGERIA: 30 Percent Almajiri Students are Girls, USAID Study Reveals USAID recently funded a study using the Creative Associates’s State Education Sub-Accounts methodology in Nigeria’s northern capital cities of Kano and Gusau. In a striking result, 30 percent of the... Read MoreWEST BANK: Middle East Partnership Initiative Empowers Palestinian Women
December 13, 2009
WEST BANK: Middle East Partnership Initiative Empowers Palestinian Women Efforts by the U.S. State Department’s Community Leadership Empowerment Program are enabling women in the West Bank farming village of Biddu to leave their homes and become citizen activists. In 2006,... Read MoreA Message from the President on International Women’s Day, March 8, 2008
March 7, 2008
A Message from the President on International Women’s Day, March 8, 2008 Dear Friends, In commemoration of International Women’s Day, please join me along with the Creative Associates team in Washington, D.C. and around the world, in shining a spotlight... Read MoreALBANIA: Helping Rural Girls and Women Protect Themselves from Traffickers
December 13, 2005
Nearly 300 Albanian girls and women fell victim to illegal trafficking for the purpose of enforced prostitution in 2005. Of these, an overwhelming number were from rural areas and one third were younger than 18....Read More