Gender Equality
Creative Action Institute advances gender equality by developing the leadership capacity of individuals and organizations, creating cohorts for collective advocacy and building movements that challenge negative social norms.
Sauti ya Dada - The Girl's Voice
Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
During school closures, adolescent girls are particularly vulnerable to school dropout; Sauti ya Dada creates and strengthens systems of support, learning, and leadership both in and out of school to help marginalized girls in East Africa complete their secondary school education.
East African Girls' Leadership Summit and Mentor Program
Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
EAGLS strengthens girls’ leadership and womens’ mentorship abilities through a summit, training, coaching, toolkits, and mini-grants, designed to elevate girls as leaders at the center of efforts to keep girls in school and to advocate against barriers to their education.
Learn how we are supporting girls' education during COVID-19
Gender Responsive Pedagogy
Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia
Teachers who are equipped to create inclusive classrooms are critical to ensuring that girls who are in school stay in school, so we have been collaborating with the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), UNICEF, and UNESCO, to develop a gender responsive pedagogy (GRP) toolkit and teacher trainings to be used across Africa.
Leadership, Empowerment, and Advocacy Program
Guatemala
This program pairs skill-building clinics based on our curriculum with partner-imagined and CAI-guided community art projects that bring leaders' gender, health and equity advocacy to life.
Sustainable Planet
Creative Action Institute builds community resilience in the face of climate change by cultivating the leadership and advocacy capacity of individuals and institutions to build movements that address critical environmental challenges locally.
Creative Environmental Leadership Program
Belize, Cameroon, Ghana, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Peru
The Creative Environmental Leadership Program develops leaders by equipping our partners to leverage creative advocacy strategies that incorporate arts and problem solving to build consensus in their communities around complex issues, develop inclusive solutions, and shift behaviors to support a more sustainable planet.
Training and Consulting Services
Our four module Creative Leadership Certificate builds the capacity of emerging and seasoned leaders to think creatively, reframe challenges, ask generative question, creatively facilitate dialogue and inspire change at the individual, community and systemic levels.
Leadership Development
Professional Development for Educators
We build the capacity of teachers, administrators, and other educators to engage all learners. Courses focus on a wide variety of topics and strategies from gender responsive pedagogy, to human rights and multiple intelligences.
Creative Action Institute provides customized services, including the following:
Advocacy Training
Our Creative Advocacy Training is a three-day, hands-on experience that equips social change leaders to design and implement creative campaigns that educate, raise awareness and engage all stakeholders to arrive at new understandings and commitments that reflect attitude and behavior change.
Custom-Designed Training and Curriculum
Don’t see exactly what you’re looking for? Contact us to start developing creative and experiential training or curriculum to meet your needs!
Conferences, Summits and Retreats
Looking for a way to make your next conference, summit or retreat stand out? We custom design and facilitate arts-infused and experiential gatherings that support your objectives - from leadership development, to team building, strategic planning, and organizational values, we bring a wealth of experience in supporting large group learning.
Start a conversation with Creative Action Institute
Contact our Director of Programs and Partnerships, Louisa Trackman, at louisa@creativeactioninstitute.org
Recent Clients and Partners
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Program Partners
48 Cantones
A Rocha Ghana
Accelerated Rural Development Organization
AfricAid
Agrointroductions Ghana
Ahado Youth Environment Club
APROFAM
Asociación Barillense de Agricultores (ASOBAGRI)
Asociación de Mujeres Ixpiyakok (ADEMI)
Asociación Generado Equidad, Liderazgo y Oportunidades (ASOGEN)
Asociación Movimiento de Jóvenes de Ometepe (AMOJO)
Association for Biodiversity Research and Sustainable Development (ABiRSD)
Bahir Dar University
BATLife
Cameroon Gender and Environment Watch (CAMGEW)
Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development (CIKOD)
Centre for Nursery Development and Eru Propagation (CENDEP)
Centre for Sustainable Rural Agriculture and Development (CSRAD)
Chalbi Scholars
City of Hope
Colectivo Joven
Comisión Nacional Contra el Maltrato y Abuso Sexual Infantil (CONACMI)
Community Action for Development (CAD)
Community Assistance in Development (COMAID)
Concern for the Girl Child
Conservation Alliance
Conservation Foundation
Cornerstone Development Africa
Crown the Woman
Dandelion Africa
Disability Rights Fund
Ecologic
Environment and Rural Development Foundation (ERuDeF)
Environmental Governance Institute (EGI)
Escuela de la Calle (EDELAC)
Forests, Resources and People (FOREP)
Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE)
FAWE Ethiopia
FAWE Kenya
FAWE Malawi
FAWE Senegal
FAWE Tanzania
Fundación para el Ecodesarrollo y la Conservación (FUNDAECO)
Ghana Water Resources Commission
Girls Castle
Girls to Lead Africa (GTLA)
Green Development Advocates (GDA)
Green Globe Society
Herp Conservation Ghana
Heshima Kenya (RefuSHE)
Hope for Rural Humanity
Imago Dei Fund
Kenyatta University
Kilgoris Project
Let Girls Lead
Limbe Wildlife Centre (LWC)
Malkia Foundation
Mfombo Foundation
Ministerio de Educación de Guatemala
Ministry of Education & Sports, Uganda
Ministry of Education, Ethiopia
Ministry of Education, Ghana
Ministry of Education, Kenya
Ministry of Education, Malawi
Ministry of Education, Rwanda
Ministry of Education, Tanzania
Ministry of Education, Uganda
Misioneros de San Carlos Scalabrinianos
National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, Ghana
Nature Care Cameroon
Northern Kenya Fund
Norwegian Aid
Nurturing Minds
Observatorio en Salud Sexual y Reproductiva (OSAR)
Organization for Gender Civic Engagement and Youth Development(OGCEYOD)
Pan African Organisation for Research and Protection of Violence on Women and Children (PAORP-VWC)
Paso Pacifico
Paz Joven
Public Health Institute
Rafiki wa Maendeleo
Resource Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development (RCESD)
Sarteneja Alliance for Conservation and Development (SACD)
Save our Environment Foundation
Secondary Education for Girls’ Advancement (SEGA)
Segal Family Foundation
Sekakoh
She’s the First
St. Augustine Eregi Teacher Training College
Sustainable Run for Development (SURUDEV)
The Greens
Thogoto Teacher Training College
Transform Ghana
Triumph Uganda
Umuryango Nyarwanda w’Abagore Bafite Ubumuga (UNABU)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
UNESCO International Institute for Capcity Builiding in Africa (UNESCO IICBA)
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
UNICEF East and South Africa Regional Office (UNICEF ESARO)
UNICEF West and Central Africa Regional Office (UNICEF WCARO)
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)
United Vision
Voces y Manos
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)/Mbam & Dierem National Park
WISER International
Young Women Empowered