Creative Associates Creative Associates InternationalInternational

Women Owned and OperatedWomen Owned and Operated Mid-sized Consulting FirmMid-sized Consulting Firm Specialize in Education in Specialize in Education in

CrisisCrisis Also, Civil SocietyAlso, Civil Society 4 Offices in Iraq & 1 in Kuwait4 Offices in Iraq & 1 in Kuwait Multi-national StaffMulti-national Staff

RISE RISE ProjectProject Education Reform at the MOEEducation Reform at the MOE Teacher TrainingTeacher Training Accelerated LearningAccelerated Learning Grants to School CommitteesGrants to School Committees Secondary School InventorySecondary School Inventory School Supplies & FurnitureSchool Supplies & Furniture No Curricula, No TextbooksNo Curricula, No Textbooks

Inventory: Data for a Inventory: Data for a PurposePurpose

Procurement for children, teachers, Procurement for children, teachers, schoolsschools

Distribution planningDistribution planning Grants for school rehabilitationGrants for school rehabilitation Target teacher trainingTarget teacher training Qualitative findingsQualitative findings Information for NGOs and contractorsInformation for NGOs and contractors EMIS foundationEMIS foundation

Guiding PrinciplesGuiding Principles

Maximize Maximize Iraqi Iraqi

involvemeninvolvementt

Close Close coordination coordination with other with other

actorsactors

Integrate and Integrate and build on build on

existing dataexisting data

Qualitative Qualitative and and

quantitative quantitative informationinformation

MethodologyMethodology

Inventory designInventory design

Training NGOsTraining NGOs

Visiting local DG officesVisiting local DG offices

Hiring local education expertsHiring local education experts

Hiring and training over 150 Iraqi data Hiring and training over 150 Iraqi data

collectorscollectors

Centralized data entry Centralized data entry

Managing the InventoryManaging the Inventory

Team WestTeam WestAmerican Islamic American Islamic

CongressCongress

Team EastTeam EastIraq Iraq

FoundationFoundation

Team NorthTeam NorthAmerican American UniversityUniversity

Challenges:Challenges:

SecuritySecurity

CommunicatCommunicationsions

Moving Moving moneymoney

LogisticsLogistics

Moving dataMoving data

TechnicalTechnical

DeadlineDeadline

Enrollment by GenderEnrollment by Gender

Boys61.6%

Girls38.4% = =

112,000112,000out-of-school girlsout-of-school girlsin the South andin the South andHeartland regionsHeartland regions

Qualitative ResultsQualitative Results

Teacher salariesTeacher salaries

Parent involvementParent involvement

Teacher preparationTeacher preparation

Trauma and drugsTrauma and drugs

Sanitary facilitiesSanitary facilities

Fired non-Ba’ath Fired non-Ba’ath

teachersteachers

Before RehabilitionBefore Rehabilition

AfterAfter

Supplying 1.5 million Supplying 1.5 million studentsstudents

Manufacturing and Manufacturing and Delivering 250,000 Pieces Delivering 250,000 Pieces

of Furnitureof Furniture

60,000 Chalkboard 60,000 Chalkboard AdventureAdventure