Civic literacy and values education
Read Ghana’s moral texts as living guides to rights, responsibilities, and shared purpose.
Civic Renewal · Education · Engagement · Development
From Ghana’s founding texts to everyday civic practice.
CREED Ghana helps communities turn the values in the National Anthem, the Pledge, and the Constitution into civic learning, ethical leadership, and practical community action.
To Know. To Serve. To Renew.
A Ghana-grounded framework for renewal
CREED moves civic education beyond recitation: learn the principles, practice them in public life, and strengthen communities together.
Ethical leadership and accountability
Use the Leadership Lens—Vision, Virtue, Voice, and Vigilance—to reflect on integrity in leadership.
Participatory citizenship and community action
Help young people and communities turn civic understanding into locally chosen action. The Community Action Cycle offers a repeatable process: choose a local issue, act together, and review what changed.
Civic technology and innovation
Explore responsible digital tools that can support participation and public problem-solving.
Monitoring, evaluation, and sustainability
Co-develop practical ways to learn whether civic programs are useful and how they can endure. The CREED Renewal Index is a proposed measure of civic progress, to be tested and validated with research partners.
Where the work stands
CREED is preparing for the next step: collaborative pilot testing.
Current stage: framework developed; pilot partners sought.
The executive brief outlines ready-to-test materials and proposed models. They need feedback, testing, and collaborative development. CREED is seeking partners and critical review; this site does not present pilot results or validated impact findings.
Start with the Executive Brief
Eight pages introducing CREED’s vision, five pillars, practical tools, and partnership opportunities.
Resources
Materials for educators, researchers, and partners. Ask for items marked on request.
Executive Brief
Eight pages introducing CREED’s vision, five pillars, practical tools, and partnership opportunities.
Download PDFThe Citizen’s Compact — Student Edition
A complete civic-education guide for senior high school students, built on the five pillars. Free for students, schools, and civic groups.
Free downloadThe Citizen’s Compact — Teacher’s Companion
Lesson guidance, discussion answer keys, and facilitation notes that follow the Student Edition chapter by chapter.
Free downloadVision Guide
The full framework, with phrase-by-phrase lessons on Ghana’s National Anthem and Pledge for primary, JHS, and SHS levels.
Request a copyAgenda 2063 Citizen’s Handbook
A student-friendly guide to what the African Union’s 50-year plan means for everyday life.
Request a copyBooks
For readers who want to explore CREED’s themes further, these books by the founder are published through BennyBeauBooks.
To Know. To Serve. To Renew.
Stories of what could be—and the citizens who could build it. The book imagines how civic understanding, ethical leadership, and active citizenship could shape Ghana’s future.
View the book at BennyBeauBooksCitizens of Character
The forthcoming flagship book of CREED’s civic-education stream, turning Ghana’s National Pledge from recitation into character and civic formation for students and teachers.
View the book at BennyBeauBooksThese books are published through BennyBeauBooks, the founder’s publishing imprint. Citizens of Character is the forthcoming flagship book of CREED Ghana’s civic-education stream.
Build the next phase together
CREED welcomes honest conversation with people and institutions who can help test, review, or strengthen the framework.
Schools and educators
Researchers
Public institutions
Civil society
Foundations and development partners
About the founder
Ben Adarkwa Dwamena, MD
Founder and Director, CREED Institute and Foundation
He is a Clinical Associate Professor Emeritus of Radiology in the Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging at the University of Michigan. Born in Ghana, he developed CREED from a conviction that national renewal begins with individual character formation and that Ghana’s own moral traditions can support civic transformation.
To Know. To Serve. To Renew.
Interested in reviewing the framework, exploring a pilot, or offering constructive feedback? We welcome a conversation.
Email CREED Ghana“Fill our hearts with true humility, make us cherish fearless honesty.”
— Ghana National Anthem