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.
East African Girls' Leadership Summit (EAGLS) & Mentor Program
Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
This program develops the leadership and advocacy skills of East African girl leaders and mentors, creating a powerful regional network equipped to break down barriers to girls’ education and gender equality.
Check out pictures from our 2019 Summit!
Leadership, Empowerment, and Advocacy Program (LEAP)
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.
Gender Responsive Pedagogy (GRP)
Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia
This collaborative initiative equips teachers and schools to make classrooms gender responsive and inclusive so that girls and boys have equal access to a quality education.
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 addresses critical environmental challenges locally.
Creative Environmental Leadership Program
Belize, Cameroon, Ghana, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Peru
This program builds the personal leadership capacity of environmental leaders and equips them to leverage arts and creativity to build awareness, develop inclusive solutions, build consensus around complex issues, and shift behaviors to support a more sustainable planet.
Training and Consulting Services
Creative Action Institute provides customized services, including the following:
Recent clients and partners include the following:
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Our 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
Thank you to our 2019 Catalyst Tour Sponsors!
Boston
New York City
Our Funding Partners:
Arthur B. Schultz Foundation
Boveri-Trackman Family Foundation
Community Congregational church
The HOW Fund
The International Foundation
New England Biolabs
New England Biolabs Foundation
The Obama Foundation
PaperSeed Foundation
Toward Sustainability
