CREATE Research Programme Overview

The purpose of CREATE is to encourage the application of knowledge and insights to improve access to basic education and thereby contribute to the achievement of educational MDGs and reductions in poverty. CREATE will contribute to the achievement of these goals through its development of novel conceptual frameworks, policy related research, and empirical enquiry into better practices. Its aim is to generate, share and project evidenced based insights into how to improve access to education for five to fifteen year olds in equitable and pro-poor ways in poor countries.

The CREATE research programme is organised around four thematic zones which encompass children and young adults who are excluded, or at risk of exclusion, from Access to Basic Education.

Zone 1 includes those children who never attend school
Zone 2 consists of children who have dropped out before completing the primary grades
Zone 3 relates to children enrolled at primary level at risk of exclusion and non-completion
Zone 4 focuses on children below the age of 15 who fail to make the transition into lower secondary schooling or its alternatives and those who do not complete the equivalent of grade 9 successfully.
Zone 5 contains those children who drop out of secondary grades aand fail to complete the cycle.
Zone 6 includes those at risk in secondary schooling who attend irregularly, fail to learn at appropriate levels and who are at risk of drop out
> Link to Conceptual Background

CREATE has developed Country Analytic Reviews in Bangladesh, India, Ghana, and South Africa. These explore the national policy environment, chart current status, review recent research studies relevant to access, develop conceptual frameworks for illuminating access issues, and identify gaps in research on policy and practice that CREATE will seek to fill through original fieldwork.
> Link to Country Analytic Reviews

Alongside the country work a portfolio of Research Monographs has been developed. These address thematic concerns and will generate state of the art research reviews.
> Link to Pathways to Access Series

A searchable annotated bibliography had been developed from the various research reviews along with links to web based sources of research and other information on access issues.
> Link to CREATE Gateway

CREATE is developing a strategic approach to capacity building based on needs identified by Partner Institutions. This will support young researchers and enhance the skills of senior researchers through a variety of methods.
> Link to Capacity Building

CREATE has identified a range of communication and dissemination strategies to project the outcomes of research and reviews to support evidenced based policy dialogue and inform better practice.
> Link to Communication and Dissemination