Youth Capacity
Cultivating Africa's Dividend Generation

If Africa's Dividend Generation is well ‘cultivated’ it can become a powerful catalyst for sustainable development by producing and extending demographic dividends. At PICHNET, we work with partners to develop, deploy and test innovative programming that is grounded in a holistic approach to capacity development, expanding participant's personal, domestic, economic and social and community capitals. In our framework, the GenDD is not cultivated for its own sake only. Rather, it is capacitated in order to serve the entire society, including boosting the productivity of adult workers by fostering their transition into the digital age; enhancing the health and wellbeing of the elderly by serving their needs for health and daily care; serving the needs of younger children and infants through tutoring, mentoring, and early development needs; preparing the next generation through better planning of families, child care and parenting.
PICHNET Trainees in Action









The PICHNET Approach: Cultivating Four Capitals

Economic Capital
Supporting education, entrepreneurial, and other job-related skills.

Social and Community Capital
Providing training in the needs, logistics, and ethics of community service.

Personal Capital
Developing
self-awareness and personal life planning, including family planning in its broad sense.

Domestic Capital
Fostering home production skills (home repairs, first aid, family budgets) and interpersonal skills for parenting/managing family relationships.
Personal
Economic
Domestic
Social and Community