Programme Area

Youth Empowerment, Entrepreneurship & Dignified Livelihoods

Turning skills into opportunity.

Youth Empowerment, Entrepreneurship & Dignified Livelihoods programme visual

Programme overview

Turning skills into opportunity.

Entrepreneurship, employability, Street Business School approaches, financial literacy, green enterprise and livelihood development.

Community-basedSkills-focusedRights-basedChild and youth-centred

The challenge

  • Children and young people face interconnected barriers affecting learning, protection, wellbeing and opportunity.
  • Families and communities may lack platforms, resources and skills to turn priorities into sustainable action.
  • Programmes must be practical, inclusive, locally relevant and safely delivered.

Our objectives

  • Strengthen knowledge, skills and confidence.
  • Build safe, inclusive and participatory environments.
  • Connect people to services, institutions, opportunities and networks.
  • Document learning and evidence for wider change.

Programme in action

Skills development

Skills development

Enterprise training

Enterprise training

Family livelihoods

Family livelihoods

Youth leadership

Youth leadership

Reports & resources

Programme briefs, learning summaries and approved reports are published through our Resources Library as they become available.

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Partners & funders

CAD works with communities, schools, government and development partners to strengthen programme delivery and sustainability.

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