Creative Frontiers is an award-winning,
full service creative agency specialized in international development communications and behavior change messaging. We break boundaries through creative content towards a better world.
Creative Frontiers designs, produces and disseminates engaging, youth-targeted content including video, animation, graphic novels, comics, mobile apps, games and e-Learning to address difficult issues such as violent extremism, displaced populations, gender based violence, taboos and health, the environment, skills gaps, illiteracy, and any challenge needing effective communications.
Through our content we focus on
Countering Violent Extremism
Economic empowerment for young people
Gender Equity
Health communications
Environment and conservation
Education in conflict
Our Approach
Creating innovative concepts
Co developing proposals
Managing on ground implementation
Delivering results and evaluating impact
Our Size and Geographic reach
Creative Frontiers and its affiliates; CFX comics and One Byte LLC are registered US small-businesses with independent registrations and offices in Lahore, Pakistan and Nairobi, Kenya.
We have a combined staff of 55 across the three countries and have been in operation since January 2014.
Our Impact
We have reached over 6.2 million people in 4 years and our projects have impacted people in Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon, Ghana, DRC, UAE, UK and the United States.
Spotlight
PASBAAN THE GUARDIANS
Engaging vulnerable youth to counter extremism using innovative storytelling delivered through graphic novels, comics, apps and animation
REACH
IMPACT
15,000
AT RISK YOUTH IN
SOUTHERN PUNJAB
PAKISTAN
100,000
PLUS YOUTH IN
BROADER PAKISTAN
THROUGH DIGITAL
CHANNELS
52%
SHIFT IN ATTITUDE
AGAINST ENDORSING
VIOLENCE
33%
ACCEPTANCE OF
RELIGIOUS AND
CULTURAL
DIFFERENCES
20%
POSITIVE SHIFT
TOWARDS GENDER
EQUITY
“A bold movement of progressivist are bringing new comic book heroes to Pakistan’s at-risk children” FOREIGN POLICY
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Case Studies
Empowering and training university students into developing critical thinking and storytelling to present solutions to complex issues that foster radicalization in the community.
Encouraging positive social change and Promoting Gender Equity through animation.
Developing life skills in Lebanon youth by thought provoking stories through E-learning modules course.
COMICS FOR PEACE
Comics for Peace seeks to encourage and promote positive social change through the medium of comic books. Stories created through fellowship program that bought attention to the societal issues including discrimination, hate, violence and extremism. 59% of all students agreed that the comic books made them more aware of an issue that they were unaware of before.
The Comics for Peace program was launched in Pakistan in 2018.
Over 2000 students in 9 universities across the country participated in the CFP project through panel discussions, workshops and on campus awareness sessions. 20 fellows (an equal mix of male and female students from all parts of the country, representing its unique religious and ethnic makeup) were recruited for the first fellowship program to develop
5 unique and independent stories developed as comic books that emphasized the drivers of radicalization in Pakistan. The stories well well received by students at Universities in the country.
AM I JUST AN ORDINARY GIRL
International Alert commissioned Creative Frontiers to create an engaging animation highlighting the problem of forced marriages in Pakistan. We were tasked with creating a short yet moving animation that would form the emotional counterweight to the statistics that would be presented to outline the scope of this problem in the country.
BUILDING A BETTER TOMORROW
The Leadership, Learning and Innovation program of the World bank hired Creative Frontiers to help develop an innovative program to provide employability and life skills training to youth in Lebanon.
Increased employability skills of 6,500 Lebanese youth through digital e-learning and printed workbook content developed as an interactive comic based narrative that created an emotive understanding of the subject matter.
KATKUTI
Creative Associates International partnered with Creative Frontiers to develop a learning game for Syrian children who have been displaced due to ongoing conflict in Syria. The game which was sponsored by NORAD and USAID through the EduApp4Syria competition aimed to enhance both Arabic literacy and social well being of the children who played the game.
A mobile game designed to address social and emotional needs of Syrian refugees while improving their Arabic literacy through a proven pedagogy. The game was one of the top 5 finalists of the EduApp4Syria competition sponsored by the Norwegian Government.
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